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Diffstat (limited to 'app/views/help')
-rw-r--r-- | app/views/help/api.html.erb | 10 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | app/views/help/officers.html.erb | 6 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | app/views/help/privacy.html.erb | 7 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | app/views/help/requesting.html.erb | 4 |
4 files changed, 20 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/app/views/help/api.html.erb b/app/views/help/api.html.erb index df7bb30b6..c6488f93e 100644 --- a/app/views/help/api.html.erb +++ b/app/views/help/api.html.erb @@ -71,7 +71,15 @@ </p> </dd> - </dl> + + + <dt> 5. Write API </dt> + <dd> + <p> + The write API is designed to be used by authorities to create their own requests in the system. The API is currently used by mySociety's <a href="https://github.com/mysociety/foi-register">FOI Register software</a> to support using Alaveteli as a disclosure log for all FOI activity at a particular public body. More technical information about the write API is available on the <a href="https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/wiki/API#write-api">Alaveteli wiki</a>. + </p> + </dd> +</dl> <p>Please <a href="<%= help_contact_path %>">contact us</a> if you need an API feature that isn't there yet. It's very much a work in progress, and we do add things when people ask us to.</p> diff --git a/app/views/help/officers.html.erb b/app/views/help/officers.html.erb index 6db706f78..a227b01c5 100644 --- a/app/views/help/officers.html.erb +++ b/app/views/help/officers.html.erb @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ <dt id="email_only">An email isn't a sufficient address for an FOI request! <a href="#email_only">#</a> </dt> <dd>Yes it is. This - <a href="http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/1142/response/2894/attach/5/20080806100741260.pdf">letter from the ICO to Rother District Council</a> gives guidance on the matter, specifically + <a href="https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/1142/response/2894/attach/5/20080806100741260.pdf">letter from the ICO to Rother District Council</a> gives guidance on the matter, specifically in the context of requests made via WhatDoTheyKnow. </dd> @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ via WhatDoTheyKnow. Moreover, since all requests are public it is much easier for you to see if one of our users is making vexatious requests. </p> <p>If that isn't enough for you, the - <a href="http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/1142/response/2894/attach/5/20080806100741260.pdf">letter from the ICO to Rother District Council</a> gives some guidance on the matter.</p> + <a href="https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/1142/response/2894/attach/5/20080806100741260.pdf">letter from the ICO to Rother District Council</a> gives some guidance on the matter.</p> </dd> <dt id="spam_problems">I can see a request on WhatDoTheyKnow, but we never got it by email!<a href="#spam_problems">#</a> </dt> @@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ <li>If the day the request email was delivered was a non-working day, we count the next working day as "day one". Delivery is delivery, even if it happened on - the weekend. Some authorities <a href="http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/policy_regarding_body_scans#incoming-1100">disagree with this</a>, our lawyer disagrees with them. </li> + the weekend. Some authorities <a href="https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/policy_regarding_body_scans#incoming-1100">disagree with this</a>, our lawyer disagrees with them. </li> <li>Requesters are encouraged to mark when they have <strong>clarified</strong> their request so the clock resets, but sometimes they get this wrong. If you diff --git a/app/views/help/privacy.html.erb b/app/views/help/privacy.html.erb index 8e5293892..f0e82ab13 100644 --- a/app/views/help/privacy.html.erb +++ b/app/views/help/privacy.html.erb @@ -84,6 +84,11 @@ ask a friend to. We don't have the resources to do this for everyone. </dd> +<dt id="anonymous">Why are there anonymous requests on the site? <a href="#anonymous">#</a> </dt> +<dd> +Some public authorities are using mySociety's <a href="https://github.com/mysociety/foi-register">FOI Register</a> software in order to use WhatDoTheyKnow as a disclosure log for all their FOI activity. When people make requests to the authority their names will usually be withheld from publication just as they would in an authority disclosure log on an authority website. +</dd> + <dt id="full_address">They've asked for my postal address! <a href="#full_address">#</a> </dt> <dd> @@ -111,7 +116,7 @@ address should be treated as the return address." <dd> <p>If an authority only has a paper copy of the information that you want, they may ask you for a postal address. To start with, try persuading them -to scan in the documents for you. You can even <a href="http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/car_parking_charges_policy_and_a#outgoing-532">offer to gift them a scanner</a>, which in that particular case +to scan in the documents for you. You can even <a href="https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/car_parking_charges_policy_and_a#outgoing-532">offer to gift them a scanner</a>, which in that particular case embarrassed the authority into finding one they had already.</p> <p>If that doesn't work, and you want to provide your postal address privately diff --git a/app/views/help/requesting.html.erb b/app/views/help/requesting.html.erb index e7cfdd199..51358c6d9 100644 --- a/app/views/help/requesting.html.erb +++ b/app/views/help/requesting.html.erb @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ <dt id="missing_body">You're missing the public authority that I want to request from! <a href="#missing_body">#</a> </dt> <dd> - <p>Please <a href="<%= help_contact_path %>">contact us</a> with the name of the public authority and, + <p>Please <a href="<%= new_change_request_path %>">contact us</a> with the name of the public authority and, if you can find it, their contact email address for Freedom of Information requests. </p> <p>If you'd like to help add a whole category of public authority to the site, we'd love @@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ <dt id="eir">Why can I only request information about the environment from some authorities? <a href="#eir">#</a> </dt> <dd> - <p>Some public authorities, such as <a href="http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/body/south_east_water">South East Water</a>, + <p>Some public authorities, such as <a href="https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/body/south_east_water">South East Water</a>, don't come under the Freedom of Information Act, but do come under another law called the Environmental Information Regulations (EIR). </p> |