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Contents

Introduction

Making requests

Privacy policy

FOI officers

Credits

Contact us

If your question isn't answered here, or you just wanted to let us know
    something about the site, contact us.

Introduction to WhatDoTheyKnow #

What is WhatDoTheyKnow for? #

To help you find out inside information about what the UK government
is doing.

How does the site work? #

You choose the public authority that you would like information from, then
write a brief note describing what you want to know. We then send your request
to the public authority. Any response they make is automatically published on the
website for you and anyone else to find and read.

Why would I bother to do this? #

You pay taxes, and then government does things with the money. All sorts of
things that affect your life, from healthcare through to national defence. Some
it does badly, some it does well. The more we find out about how government
works, the better able we are to make suggestions to improve the things that
are done badly, and to celebrate the things that are done well.

Why would the public authority bother to reply? #

Under Freedom of Information (FOI) law, they have to respond. The response
will either contain the information you want, or give a valid legal reason why
it must be kept confidential.

Who makes it? #

WhatDoTheyKnow is created and run by mySociety,
and was initially funded by the JRSST Charitable Trust. mySociety is a project of the
registered charity UK Citizens Online Democracy.
If you like what we're doing, then you can
make a donation.

Making requests #

You're missing the public authority that I want to request from! #

Please contact us with the name of the public authority and,
if you can find it, their contact email address for Freedom of Information requests.
If you'd like to help add a whole category of public authority to the site, for example all
primary care trusts or all schools, then please
edit this shared spreadsheet (Google account required).

How quickly will I get a response? #

By law public authorities must respond "promptly", and in any event not later
than 20 working days after receiving your request. The date of that hard limit
is shown on the page for your request. You will be emailed if this date goes by
without a response, so you can send the public authority another note to remind
them that they are breaking the law. Note: If you had to
clarify your request, the clock starts from that date, instead of the date they
received your initial request.

What if I'm not satisfied with the response? #

If you didn't get the information you asked for, or you didn't get it in time,
then read our page 'Unhappy about the response you got?'.

Can you tell me more of the nitty gritty about the process of making requests? #

Have a look at the
access to official information
pages on the Information Commisioner's website.

If you're requesting information from a Scottish public authority,
the process is very similar. There are differences around time
limits for compliance.
See the Scottish
Information Commissioner's guidance for details.

Can I request information about myself? #

No. Requests made using WhatDoTheyKnow are public, made under the Freedom of
Information Act, and cannot help you find information about a private
individual.

If you would like to know what information a public
authority holds about yourself, you should make a "Subject Access Request" in
private using Data Protection law.  The leaflet "How to access your information" (on the Information Commisioner's
website) explains how to do this.

If you see that somebody has included personal information, perhaps
unwittingly, in a request, please contact us
immediately so we can remove it.

I'd like to keep my request secret! (At least until I publish my story) #

WhatDoTheyKnow is currently only designed for public requests. All
responses that we receive are automatically published on the website for anyone
to read.  You should contact the public authority directly if you would like to
make a request in private.  If you're interested in buying a system which helps
you manage FOI requests in secret, then contact us.

Why can I only request information about the environment from some authorities? #

Some public authorities, such as South East Water,
don't come under the Freedom of Information Act, but do come under another law called
the Environmental Information Regulations (EIR). It's a very similar law, so you make a request
to them using WhatDoTheyKnow in just the same way as an FOI request. The only difference
is that on the page where you write you request, it reminds you that you can only
request "environmental information" and tells you what that means. It is quite broad.

So can I request information using EIR from other authorities? #

Yes, just make a Freedom of Information (FOI) request as normal. The
authority has a duty to work out if the Environmental Information Regulations
(EIR) is the more appropriate legislation to reply under.

Can I make the same to request to lots of authorities, e.g. all councils? #

We ask you to first send a test version of your request to a few
authorities. Their respones will help you improve the wording of your request,
so that you get the best information when you send the request to all of
the authorities. There is currently no automated system for sending the request
to the other authorities, you must copy and paste it by hand.

Privacy policy #

Who gets to see my email address? #

We will not disclose your email address to anyone unless we are obliged to by law,
or you ask us to. This includes the public authority that you are sending a
request to.  They only get to see an email address
@whatdotheyknow.com which is specific to that request.

If you send a message to another user on the site, then it will reveal your
email address to them. You will be told that this is going to happen.

Will you send nasty, brutish spam to my email address? #

Nope. After you sign up to WhatDoTheyKnow we will only send you emails
relating to a request you made, an email alert that you have signed up for,
or for other reasons that you specifically authorise. We will never give or
sell your email addresses to anyone else, unless we are obliged to by law, or
you ask us to.

Why will my name and my request appear publicly on the site? #

We publish your request on the Internet so that anybody can read it and
make use of the information that you have found.

Your name is tangled up with your request, so has to be published as well.
It is only fair, as we're going to publish the name of the civil servant who
writes the response to your request.  Using your real name also helps people
get in touch with you to assist you with your research or to campaign with you.

By law, you must use your real name for the request to be a valid Freedom of
Information request. See the next question for alternatives if you do not want
to publish your full name.

Can I make an FOI request using a pseudonym? #

Technically, you must use your real name for your request to be a valid Freedom of Information request in law. See this
guidance from the Information Commissioner (January 2009).

However, the same guidance also says it is good practice for the public
authority to still consider a request made using an obvious pseudonym.
You should refer to this if a public authority refuses a request because you
used a pseudonym.

Be careful though, even if the authority follows this good practice, the
pseudonym will probably make it impossible for you to complain to the
Information Commisioner later about the handling of your request.

There are several good alternatives to using a pseudonym.

Use a different form of your name. The guidance says
that "Mr Arthur Thomas Roberts" can make a valid request as "Arthur Roberts",
"A. T. Roberts", or "Mr Roberts", but not as "Arthur" or "A.T.R.".

Women may use their maiden name.

In most cases, you may use any name by which you are "widely known and/or
is regularly used".

Use the name of a company, the trading name of a company,
or the trading name of a sole trader.

Ask someone else to make the request on your behalf.

You may, if you are really stuck, ask us to make the request on
your behalf. Please contact us with
a good reason why you cannot make the request yourself and cannot
ask a friend to. We don't have the resources to do this for everyone.

They've asked for my postal address! #

If a public authority asks you for your full, physical address, reply to them saying
that section 8.1.b of the FOI Act asks for an "address for correspondence",
and that the email address you are using is sufficient.

The Ministry of Justice has guidance
on this –
"As well as hard copy written correspondence, requests that are
transmitted electronically (for example, in emails) are acceptable
... If a request is received by email and no postal address is given, the email
address should be treated as the return address."

As if that isn't enough, the Information Commissioner's
Hints for Practitioners say
"Any correspondence could include a request for information. If it is written (this includes e-mail), legible, gives the name of the applicant, an address for reply (which could be electronic), and includes a description of the information required, then it will fall within the scope of the legislation."

No no, they need a postal address to send a paper response! #

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 offer to gift them a scanner, which in that particular case
embarrassed the authority into finding one they had already.

If that doesn't work, and you want to provide your postal address privately
in order to receive the documents, mark your request as "They are going to reply by post", and it will
give you an email address to use for that purpose.

How do you moderate request annotations? #

Annotations on WhatDoTheyKnow are to help
people get the information they want, or to give them pointers to places they
can go to help them act on it. We reserve the right to remove anything else.

Endless, political discussions are not allowed.
Post a link to a suitable forum or campaign site elsewhere.

FOI officer questions #

I just got here from bottom of an FOI request, what is going on? #

WhatDoTheyKnow is a service run by a charity. It helps ordinary members
of the public make FOI requests, and easily track and share the responses.

The FOI request you received was made by someone using WhatDoTheyKnow. You can
simply reply to the request as you would any other request from an individual.
The only difference is that your response will be automatically published on
the Internet.

If you have privacy or other concerns, please read the answers below.
You might also like to read this page from the top to find out more about what
the site does from the point of view of a user. You can also search the
site to find the authority that you work for, and view the status of
any requests made using the site.

Finally, we welcome comments and
thoughts from FOI officers, please get in touch.

Why are you publishing responses to FOI requests? #

We think there are lots of benefits. Most importantly it will encourage the
public to be more interested and involved in the work of government. We
also hope that it will reduce the number of duplicate requests on any
subject that a public body will receive. Given that Freedom of Information
responses contain public information, which anybody could easily request
again from the public authority, we think there should be no reason not to
publish it widely.

Are the people making requests real people? #

Yes. For the purposes of keeping track of responses we use
computer-generated email addresses for each request. However, before
they can send a request, each user must register on the site with a
unique email address that we then verify. You can search this site and
find a page listing all requests that each person has made.

An email isn't a sufficient address for an FOI request! #

Yes it is. This
letter from the ICO to Rother District Council gives guidance on the matter, specifically
in the context of requests made via WhatDoTheyKnow.

Aren't you making lots of vexatious requests? #

WhatDoTheyKnow is not making any requests. We are sending requests on
behalf of our users, who are real people making the requests.

Look at it like this - if lots of different people made requests from
different Hotmail email addresses, then you would not think that Microsoft were
making vexatious requests. It is exactly the same if lots of requests are made
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, and for us to
block them when that happens.

If that isn't enough for you, the
letter from the ICO to Rother District Council gives some guidance on the matter.

I can see a request on WhatDoTheyKnow, but we never got it by email!#

If a request appears on the site, then we have attempted to send it to
the authority by email. Any delivery failure messages will automatically
appear on the site. You can check the address we're using with the "View FOI
email address" link which appears on the page for the authority. Contact us if there is a better address we can
use.

Requests are sometimes not delivered because they are quietly removed by
"spam filters" in the IT department of the authority. Authorities can make
sure this doesn't happen by asking their IT departments to "whitelist"
any email from @whatdotheyknow.com.
If you ask us we will resend any request,
and/or give technical details of delivery so an IT department can chase
up what happened to the message.

Finally, you can respond to any request from your web browser, without
needing any email, using the "respond to request" link at the bottom of
each request page.

How can I send a large file, which won't go by email?#

Instead of email, you can respond to a request directly from your web
browser, including uploading a file. To do this, choose "respond to request" at
the bottom of the request's page. Contact us if it
is too big for even that (more than, say, 50Mb).

Isn't it a problem that you publish the names of civil servants and the text of emails? #

Officers or servants responding to requests are doing so on behalf of the
public as part of their job, and we publish their response on that
basis. Usually the names and phone numbers of FOI officers are already
available on authority websites. We also encourage our users to give their real
name too, so it is fair both ways.

Do you publish email addresses or mobile phone numbers? #

We automatically remove email addresses and labelled mobile phone numbers
that are in the email part of responses from public authorities. Please
contact us if we've missed one. We don't currently
remove these from attachments,
such as Word documents.

Can you take down private information about me? #

If you see any information on the site which you'd like us to remove or
hide, then please let us know. We'll then
remove it, provided it is genuinely private information. In particular, we
will remove remarks that are irrelevantly personal.

What is your policy on documents with commercial copyright?#

Our Freedom of Information law is "applicant blind", so anyone in the
world can request the same document and get a copy of it.

If you think our making a document available on the internet infringes your
copyright, you are welcome to contact us and ask us
to take it down.  However, to save tax payers' money by preventing duplicate
requests, and for good public relations, we'd advise you not to do that.

Credit where credit is due #

Which people made WhatDoTheyKnow? #

Oh, nearly everyone (and maybe you too)!

    Heather Brooke
    (vampy!) has
    been pushing the idea of a UK FOI archive for years now.

    Both Phil Rodgers and Francis Irving
    entered it in a mySociety competition for ideas for public interest websites to build.

    It won,
    and then Chris Lightfoot (RIP :()
    thought up the wheeze of intercepting email responses to requests and
    automatically publishing them.

    Tom Steinberg got the cash to pay for the site from
    a dead chocolate mogul (thank you!) ...

    ... so that Francis Irving, Angie Ahl, Tommy Martin, Louise Crow, Matthew Somerville
    and Tom Steinberg could do the complex mixture of design and coding to build
    what you see today.

    Thanks particularly to Julian Todd (great blog!),
    Francis Davey, and Etienne Pollard for using the site early on and giving
    feedback (and/or legal advice!), and also to all our other users and
    testers.

    Lots of people have been looking up FOI email addresses, and a few
    volunteering to run the site - most especially Adam McGreggor, Alex
    Skene, John Cross and Tony Bowden.

Finally we couldn't do any of this without those
crazy people who volunteer,
amongst many other things, to do the accounts and fill in our VAT return.

You're all stars.

Can I help out? #

Yes please! We're built out of our supporters and volunteers.

You can make a donation. We're a registered charity.

Find out FOI email addresses of authorities that we're missing.

Write a blog post about either WhatDoTheyKnow or an interesting request that you've
    found. Post about it on a forum that you frequent. Tell friends about it.

If you're
    a programmer, get the
    source code
    and send us patches. It's made in Ruby on Rails.

Read more about volunteering with mySociety.

<% @title = "About" %>

Contents

Introduction

Making requests

Privacy policy

FOI officers

Credits

Contact us

If your question isn't answered here, or you just wanted to let us know
    something about the site, contact us.

Introduction to WhatDoTheyKnow #

What is WhatDoTheyKnow for? #

To help you find out inside information about what the UK government
is doing.

How does the site work? #

You choose the public authority that you would like information from, then
write a brief note describing what you want to know. We then send your request
to the public authority. Any response they make is automatically published on the
website for you and anyone else to find and read.

Why would I bother to do this? #

You pay taxes, and then government does things with the money. All sorts of
things that affect your life, from healthcare through to national defence. Some
it does badly, some it does well. The more we find out about how government
works, the better able we are to make suggestions to improve the things that
are done badly, and to celebrate the things that are done well.

Why would the public authority bother to reply? #

Under Freedom of Information (FOI) law, they have to respond. The response
will either contain the information you want, or give a valid legal reason why
it must be kept confidential.

Who makes it? #

WhatDoTheyKnow is created and run by mySociety,
and was initially funded by the JRSST Charitable Trust. mySociety is a project of the
registered charity UK Citizens Online Democracy.
If you like what we're doing, then you can
make a donation.

Making requests #

You're missing the public authority that I want to request from! #

Please contact us with the name of the public authority and,
if you can find it, their contact email address for Freedom of Information requests.
If you'd like to help add a whole category of public authority to the site, for example all
primary care trusts or all schools, then please
edit this shared spreadsheet (Google account required).

How quickly will I get a response? #

By law public authorities must respond "promptly", and in any event not later
than 20 working days after receiving your request. The date of that hard limit
is shown on the page for your request. You will be emailed if this date goes by
without a response, so you can send the public authority another note to remind
them that they are breaking the law. Note: If you had to
clarify your request, the clock starts from that date, instead of the date they
received your initial request.

What if I'm not satisfied with the response? #

If you didn't get the information you asked for, or you didn't get it in time,
then read our page 'Unhappy about the response you got?'.

Can you tell me more of the nitty gritty about the process of making requests? #

Have a look at the
access to official information
pages on the Information Commisioner's website.

If you're requesting information from a Scottish public authority,
the process is very similar. There are differences around time
limits for compliance.
See the Scottish
Information Commissioner's guidance for details.

Can I request information about myself? #

No. Requests made using WhatDoTheyKnow are public, made under the Freedom of
Information Act, and cannot help you find information about a private
individual.

If you would like to know what information a public
authority holds about yourself, you should make a "Subject Access Request" in
private using Data Protection law.  The leaflet "How to access your information" (on the Information Commisioner's
website) explains how to do this.

If you see that somebody has included personal information, perhaps
unwittingly, in a request, please contact us
immediately so we can remove it.

I'd like to keep my request secret! (At least until I publish my story) #

WhatDoTheyKnow is currently only designed for public requests. All
responses that we receive are automatically published on the website for anyone
to read.  You should contact the public authority directly if you would like to
make a request in private.  If you're interested in buying a system which helps
you manage FOI requests in secret, then contact us.

Why can I only request information about the environment from some authorities? #

Some public authorities, such as South East Water,
don't come under the Freedom of Information Act, but do come under another law called
the Environmental Information Regulations (EIR). It's a very similar law, so you make a request
to them using WhatDoTheyKnow in just the same way as an FOI request. The only difference
is that on the page where you write you request, it reminds you that you can only
request "environmental information" and tells you what that means. It is quite broad.

So can I request information using EIR from other authorities? #

Yes, just make a Freedom of Information (FOI) request as normal. The
authority has a duty to work out if the Environmental Information Regulations
(EIR) is the more appropriate legislation to reply under.

Privacy policy #

Who gets to see my email address? #

We will not disclose your email address to anyone unless we are obliged to by law,
or you ask us to. This includes the public authority that you are sending a
request to.  They only get to see an email address
@whatdotheyknow.com which is specific to that request.

If you send a message to another user on the site, then it will reveal your
email address to them. You will be told that this is going to happen.

Will you send nasty, brutish spam to my email address? #

Nope. After you sign up to WhatDoTheyKnow we will only send you emails
relating to a request you made, an email alert that you have signed up for,
or for other reasons that you specifically authorise. We will never give or
sell your email addresses to anyone else, unless we are obliged to by law, or
you ask us to.

Why will my name and my request appear publicly on the site? #

We publish your request on the Internet so that anybody can read it and
make use of the information that you have found.

Your name is tangled up with your request, so has to be published as well.
It is only fair, as we're going to publish the name of the civil servant who
writes the response to your request.  Using your real name also helps people
get in touch with you to assist you with your research or to campaign with you.

By law, you must use your real name for the request to be a valid Freedom of
Information request. See the next question for alternatives if you do not want
to publish your full name.

Can I make an FOI request using a pseudonym? #

Technically, you must use your real name for your request to be a valid Freedom of Information request in law. See this
guidance from the Information Commissioner (January 2009).

However, the same guidance also says it is good practice for the public
authority to still consider a request made using an obvious pseudonym.
You should refer to this if a public authority refuses a request because you
used a pseudonym.

Be careful though, even if the authority follows this good practice, the
pseudonym will probably make it impossible for you to complain to the
Information Commisioner later about the handling of your request.

There are several good alternatives to using a pseudonym.

Use a different form of your name. The guidance says
that "Mr Arthur Thomas Roberts" can make a valid request as "Arthur Roberts",
"A. T. Roberts", or "Mr Roberts", but not as "Arthur" or "A.T.R.".

Women may use their maiden name.

In most cases, you may use any name by which you are "widely known and/or
is regularly used".

Use the name of a company, the trading name of a company,
or the trading name of a sole trader.

Ask someone else to make the request on your behalf.

You may, if you are really stuck, ask us to make the request on
your behalf. Please contact us with
a good reason why you cannot make the request yourself and cannot
ask a friend to. We don't have the resources to do this for everyone.

They've asked for my postal address! #

If a public authority asks you for your full, physical address, reply to them saying
that section 8.1.b of the FOI Act asks for an "address for correspondence",
and that the email address you are using is sufficient.

The Ministry of Justice has guidance
on this –
"As well as hard copy written correspondence, requests that are
transmitted electronically (for example, in emails) are acceptable
... If a request is received by email and no postal address is given, the email
address should be treated as the return address."

As if that isn't enough, the Information Commissioner's
Hints for Practitioners say
"Any correspondence could include a request for information. If it is written (this includes e-mail), legible, gives the name of the applicant, an address for reply (which could be electronic), and includes a description of the information required, then it will fall within the scope of the legislation."

No no, they need a postal address to send a paper response! #

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 offer to gift them a scanner, which in that particular case
embarrassed the authority into finding one they had already.

If that doesn't work, and you want to provide your postal address privately
in order to receive the documents, mark your request as "They are going to reply by post", and it will
give you an email address to use for that purpose.

How do you moderate request annotations? #

Annotations on WhatDoTheyKnow are to help
people get the information they want, or to give them pointers to places they
can go to help them act on it. We reserve the right to remove anything else.

Endless, political discussions are not allowed.
Post a link to a suitable forum or campaign site elsewhere.

FOI officer questions #

I just got here from bottom of an FOI request, what is going on? #

WhatDoTheyKnow is a service run by a charity. It helps ordinary members
of the public make FOI requests, and easily track and share the responses.

The FOI request you received was made by someone using WhatDoTheyKnow. You can
simply reply to the request as you would any other request from an individual.
The only difference is that your response will be automatically published on
the Internet.

If you have privacy or other concerns, please read the answers below.
You might also like to read this page from the top to find out more about what
the site does from the point of view of a user. You can also search the
site to find the authority that you work for, and view the status of
any requests made using the site.

Finally, we welcome comments and
thoughts from FOI officers, please get in touch.

Why are you publishing responses to FOI requests? #

We think there are lots of benefits. Most importantly it will encourage the
public to be more interested and involved in the work of government. We
also hope that it will reduce the number of duplicate requests on any
subject that a public body will receive. Given that Freedom of Information
responses contain public information, which anybody could easily request
again from the public authority, we think there should be no reason not to
publish it widely.

Are the people making requests real people? #

Yes. For the purposes of keeping track of responses we use
computer-generated email addresses for each request. However, before
they can send a request, each user must register on the site with a
unique email address that we then verify. You can search this site and
find a page listing all requests that each person has made.

An email isn't a sufficient address for an FOI request! #

Yes it is. This
letter from the ICO to Rother District Council gives guidance on the matter, specifically
in the context of requests made via WhatDoTheyKnow.

Aren't you making lots of vexatious requests? #

WhatDoTheyKnow is not making any requests. We are sending requests on
behalf of our users, who are real people making the requests.

Look at it like this - if lots of different people made requests from
different Hotmail email addresses, then you would not think that Microsoft were
making vexatious requests. It is exactly the same if lots of requests are made
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, and for us to
block them when that happens.

If that isn't enough for you, the
letter from the ICO to Rother District Council gives some guidance on the matter.

I can see a request on WhatDoTheyKnow, but we never got it by email!#

If a request appears on the site, then we have attempted to send it to
the authority by email. Any delivery failure messages will automatically
appear on the site. You can check the address we're using with the "View FOI
email address" link which appears on the page for the authority. Contact us if there is a better address we can
use.

Requests are sometimes not delivered because they are quietly removed by
"spam filters" in the IT department of the authority. Authorities can make
sure this doesn't happen by asking their IT departments to "whitelist"
any email from @whatdotheyknow.com.
If you ask us we will resend any request,
and/or give technical details of delivery so an IT department can chase
up what happened to the message.

Finally, you can respond to any request from your web browser, without
needing any email, using the "respond to request" link at the bottom of
each request page.

How can I send a large file, which won't go by email?#

Instead of email, you can respond to a request directly from your web
browser, including uploading a file. To do this, choose "respond to request" at
the bottom of the request's page. Contact us if it
is too big for even that (more than, say, 50Mb).

Isn't it a problem that you publish the names of civil servants and the text of emails? #

Officers or servants responding to requests are doing so on behalf of the
public as part of their job, and we publish their response on that
basis. Usually the names and phone numbers of FOI officers are already
available on authority websites. We also encourage our users to give their real
name too, so it is fair both ways.

Do you publish email addresses or mobile phone numbers? #

We automatically remove email addresses and labelled mobile phone numbers
that are in the email part of responses from public authorities. Please
contact us if we've missed one. We don't currently
remove these from attachments,
such as Word documents.

Can you take down private information about me? #

If you see any information on the site which you'd like us to remove or
hide, then please let us know. We'll then
remove it, provided it is genuinely private information. In particular, we
will remove remarks that are irrelevantly personal.

What is your policy on documents with commercial copyright?#

Our Freedom of Information law is "applicant blind", so anyone in the
world can request the same document and get a copy of it.

If you think our making a document available on the internet infringes your
copyright, you are welcome to contact us and ask us
to take it down.  However, to save tax payers' money by preventing duplicate
requests, and for good public relations, we'd advise you not to do that.

Credit where credit is due #

Which people made WhatDoTheyKnow? #

Oh, nearly everyone (and maybe you too)!

    Heather Brooke
    (vampy!) has
    been pushing the idea of a UK FOI archive for years now.

    Both Phil Rodgers and Francis Irving
    entered it in a mySociety competition for ideas for public interest websites to build.

    It won,
    and then Chris Lightfoot (RIP :()
    thought up the wheeze of intercepting email responses to requests and
    automatically publishing them.

    Tom Steinberg got the cash to pay for the site from
    a dead chocolate mogul (thank you!) ...

    ... so that Francis Irving, Angie Ahl, Tommy Martin, Louise Crow, Matthew Somerville
    and Tom Steinberg could do the complex mixture of design and coding to build
    what you see today.

    Thanks particularly to Julian Todd (great blog!),
    Francis Davey, and Etienne Pollard for using the site early on and giving
    feedback (and/or legal advice!), and also to all our other users and
    testers.

    Lots of people have been looking up FOI email addresses, and a few
    volunteering to run the site - most especially Adam McGreggor, Alex
    Skene, John Cross and Tony Bowden.

Finally we couldn't do any of this without those
crazy people who volunteer,
amongst many other things, to do the accounts and fill in our VAT return.

You're all stars.

Can I help out? #

Yes please! We're built out of our supporters and volunteers.

You can make a donation. We're a registered charity.

Find out FOI email addresses of authorities that we're missing.

Write a blog post about either WhatDoTheyKnow or an interesting request that you've
    found. Post about it on a forum that you frequent. Tell friends about it.

If you're
    a programmer, get the
    source code
    and send us patches. It's made in Ruby on Rails.

Read more about volunteering with mySociety.


Update to best guidance now on ICO site - old PDF has been removed by them.

<% @title = "About" %>

Contents

Introduction

Making requests

Privacy policy

FOI officers

Credits

Contact us

If your question isn't answered here, or you just wanted to let us know
    something about the site, contact us.

Introduction to WhatDoTheyKnow #

What is WhatDoTheyKnow for? #

To help you find out inside information about what the UK government
is doing.

How does the site work? #

You choose the public authority that you would like information from, then
write a brief note describing what you want to know. We then send your request
to the public authority. Any response they make is automatically published on the
website for you and anyone else to find and read.

Why would I bother to do this? #

You pay taxes, and then government does things with the money. All sorts of
things that affect your life, from healthcare through to national defence. Some
it does badly, some it does well. The more we find out about how government
works, the better able we are to make suggestions to improve the things that
are done badly, and to celebrate the things that are done well.

Why would the public authority bother to reply? #

Under Freedom of Information (FOI) law, they have to respond.

Who makes it? #

WhatDoTheyKnow is created and run by mySociety,
and was initially funded by the JRSST Charitable Trust. mySociety is a project of the
registered charity UK Citizens Online Democracy.
If you like what we're doing, then you can
make a donation.

Making requests #

You're missing the public authority that I want to request from! #

Please contact us with the name of the public authority and,
if you can find it, their contact email address for Freedom of Information requests.
If you'd like to help add a whole category of public authority to the site, for example all
primary care trusts or all schools, then please
edit this shared spreadsheet (Google account required).

How quickly will I get a response? #

By law public authorities must respond "promptly", and in any event not later
than 20 working days after receiving your request. The date of that hard limit
is shown on the page for your request. You will be emailed if this date goes by
without a response, so you can send the public authority another note to remind
them that they are breaking the law. Note: If you had to
clarify your request, the clock starts from that date, instead of the date they
received your initial request.

What if I'm not satisfied with the response? #

If you didn't get the information you asked for, or you didn't get it in time,
then read our page 'Unhappy about the response you got?'.

Can you tell me more of the nitty gritty about the process of making requests? #

Have a look at the
access to official information
pages on the Information Commisioner's website.

If you're requesting information from a Scottish public authority,
the process is very similar. Notable differences are around time
limits for compliance and pseudonyms.
See the Scottish
Information Commissioner's guidance for details.

Can I request information about myself? #

No. Requests made using WhatDoTheyKnow are public, made under the Freedom of
Information Act, and cannot help you find information about a private
individual.

If you would like to know what information a public
authority holds about yourself, you should make a "Subject Access Request" in
private using Data Protection law.  The leaflet "How to access your information" (on the Information Commisioner's
website) explains how to do this.

If you see that somebody has included personal information, perhaps
unwittingly, in a request, please contact us
immediately so we can remove it.

I'd like to keep my request secret! (At least until I publish my story) #

WhatDoTheyKnow is currently only designed for public requests. All
responses that we receive are automatically published on the website for anyone
to read.  You should contact the public authority directly if you would like to
make a request in private.  If you're interested in buying a system which helps
you manage FOI requests in secret, then contact us.

Why can I only request information about the environment from some authorities? #

Some public authorities, such as South East Water,
don't come under the Freedom of Information Act, but do come under another law called
the Environmental Information Regulations (EIR). It's a very similar law, so you make a request
to them using WhatDoTheyKnow in just the same way as an FOI request. The only difference
is that on the page where you write you request, it reminds you that you can only
request "environmental information" and tells you what that means. It is quite broad.

So can I request information using EIR from other authorities? #

Yes, just make a Freedom of Information (FOI) request as normal. The
authority has a duty to work out if the Environmental Information Regulations
(EIR) is the more appropriate legislation to reply under.

Privacy policy #

Who gets to see my email address? #

We will not disclose your email address to anyone unless we are obliged to by law,
or you ask us to. This includes the public authority that you are sending a
request to.  They only get to see an email address
@whatdotheyknow.com which is specific to that request.

If you send a message to another user on the site, then it will reveal your
email address to them. You will be told that this is going to happen.

Will you send nasty, brutish spam to my email address? #

Nope. After you sign up to WhatDoTheyKnow we will only send you emails
relating to a request you made, an email alert that you have signed up for,
or for other reasons that you specifically authorise. We will never give or
sell your email addresses to anyone else, unless we are obliged to by law, or
you ask us to.

Why will my name appear publicly on the site? #

It means that someone researching the same area can get in touch with you,
and maybe give you more information or ideas relating to your request.  Also,
we're going to publish the response with the name of the civil servant who
wrote it, so it seems only fair that your name should be public too!
Therefore, we encourage you to use your real name, but you may use a pseudonym
if you would like to be anonymous.

So I can make an FOI request using a pseudonym? #

It is good practice for the public authority to reply to an anonymous request,
except in special circumstances such as if they suspect you of making vexatious
requests. See Freedom of Information Good Practice Guidance No 6
for details.  You should refer to this if a public authority attempts to refuse
a request because you used a pseudonym.

However, there are good reasons to use your real name: see the previous
question.  If nothing else, it avoids the risk of an authority being picky,
ignoring the guidance and refusing your request.

For requests to Scottish public authorities you should ideally provide a
real name, especially if you forsee the possibility of complaining later to the
Scottish Information Commissioner - based on
legal advice
they received in 2005, they will not accept complaints where they find out that
the request was originally made under a pseudonym.

They've asked for my postal address! #

If a public authority asks you for your full, physical address, reply to them saying
that section 8.1.b of the FOI Act asks for an "address for correspondence",
and that the email address you are using is sufficient.

The Ministry of Justice has guidance
on this –
"As well as hard copy written correspondence, requests that are
transmitted electronically (for example, in emails) are acceptable
... If a request is received by email and no postal address is given, the email
address should be treated as the return address."

As if that isn't enough, the Information Commissioner's
Hints for Practitioners say
"Any correspondence could include a request for information. If it is written (this includes e-mail), legible, gives the name of the applicant, an address for reply (which could be electronic), and includes a description of the information required, then it will fall within the scope of the legislation."

No no, they need a postal address to send a paper response! #

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 offer to gift them a scanner, which in that particular case
embarrassed the authority into finding one they had already.

If that doesn't work, and you want to provide your postal address privately
in order to receive the documents, then please contact
us.

How do you moderate request annotations? #

Annotations on WhatDoTheyKnow are to help
people get the information they want, or to give them pointers to places they
can go to help them act on it. We reserve the right to remove anything else.

Endless, political discussions are not allowed.
Post a link to a suitable forum or campaign site elsewhere.

FOI officer questions #

I just got here from bottom of an FOI request, what is going on? #

WhatDoTheyKnow is a service run by a charity. It helps ordinary members
of the public make FOI requests, and easily track and share the responses.

The FOI request you received was made by someone using WhatDoTheyKnow. You can
simply reply to the request as you would any other request from an individual.
The only difference is that your response will be automatically published on
the Internet.

If you have privacy or other concerns, please read the answers below.
You might also like to read this page from the top to find out more about what
the site does from the point of view of a user. You can also search the
site to find the authority that you work for, and view the status of
any requests made using the site.

Finally, we welcome comments and
thoughts from FOI officers, please get in touch.

Why are you publishing responses to FOI requests? #

We think there are lots of benefits. Most importantly it will encourage the
public to be more interested and involved in the work of government. We
also hope that it will reduce the number of duplicate requests on any
subject that a public body will receive. Given that Freedom of Information
responses contain public information, which anybody could easily request
again from the public authority, we think there should be no reason not to
publish it widely.

Are the people making requests real people? #

Yes. For the purposes of keeping track of responses we use
computer-generated email addresses for each request. However, before
they can send a request, each user must register on the site with a
unique email address that we then verify. You can search this site and
find a page listing all requests that each person has made.

An email isn't a sufficient address for an FOI request! #

Yes it is. This
letter from the ICO to Rother District Council gives guidance on the matter, specifically
in the context of requests made via WhatDoTheyKnow.

Aren't you making lots of vexatious requests? #

WhatDoTheyKnow is not making any requests. We are sending requests on
behalf of our users, who are real people making the requests.

Look at it like this - if lots of different people made requests from
different Hotmail email addresses, then you would not think that Microsoft were
making vexatious requests. It is exactly the same if lots of requests are made
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, and for us to
block them when that happens.

If that isn't enough for you, the
letter from the ICO to Rother District Council gives some guidance on the matter.

Isn't it a problem that you publish the names of civil servants and the text of emails? #

Officers or servants responding to requests are doing so on behalf of the
public as part of their job, and we publish their response on that
basis. Usually the names and phone numbers of FOI officers are already
available on authority websites. We also encourage our users to give their real
name too, so it is fair both ways.

Do you publish email addresses or mobile phone numbers? #

We automatically remove email addresses and labelled mobile phone numbers
that are in the email part of responses from public authorities. Please
contact us if we've missed one. We don't currently
remove these from attachments,
such as Word documents.

Can you take down private information about me? #

If you see any information on the site which you'd like us to remove or
hide, then please let us know. We'll then
remove it, provided it is genuinely private information. In particular, we
will remove remarks that are irrelevantly personal.

Credit where credit is due #

Which people made WhatDoTheyKnow? #

Oh, nearly everyone (and maybe you too)!

    Heather Brooke
    (vampy!) has
    been pushing the idea of a UK FOI archive for years now.

    Both Phil Rodgers and Francis Irving
    entered it in a mySociety competition for ideas for public interest websites to build.

    It won,
    and then Chris Lightfoot (RIP :()
    thought up the wheeze of intercepting email responses to requests and
    automatically publishing them.

    Tom Steinberg got the cash to pay for the site from
    a dead chocolate mogul (thank you!) ...

    ... so that Francis Irving, Angie Ahl, Tommy Martin, Louise Crow, Matthew Somerville
    and Tom Steinberg could do the complex mixture of design and coding to build
    what you see today.

    Thanks particularly to Julian Todd (great blog!),
    Francis Davey, and Etienne Pollard for using the site early on and giving
    feedback (and/or legal advice!), and also to all our other users and
    testers.

    Lots of people have been looking up FOI email addresses, and a few
    volunteering to run the site - most especially Adam McGreggor, Alex
    Skene, John Cross and Tony Bowden.

Finally we couldn't do any of this without those
crazy people who volunteer,
amongst many other things, to do the accounts and fill in our VAT return.

You're all stars.

Can I help out? #

Yes please! We're built out of our supporters and volunteers.

You can make a donation. We're a registered charity.

Find out FOI email addresses of authorities that we're missing.

Write a blog post about either WhatDoTheyKnow or an interesting request that you've
    found. Post about it on a forum that you frequent. Tell friends about it.

If you're
    a programmer, get the
    source code
    and send us patches. It's made in Ruby on Rails.

Read more about volunteering with mySociety.

<% @title = "About" %>

Contents

Introduction

Making requests

Privacy policy

FOI officers

Credits

Contact us

If your question isn't answered here, or you just wanted to let us know
    something about the site, contact us.

Introduction to WhatDoTheyKnow #

What is WhatDoTheyKnow for? #

To help you find out inside information about what the UK government
is doing.

How does the site work? #

You choose the public authority that you would like information from, then
write a brief note describing what you want to know. We then send your request
to the public authority. Any response they make is automatically published on the
website for you and anyone else to find and read.

Why would I bother to do this? #

You pay taxes, and then government does things with the money. All sorts of
things that affect your life, from healthcare through to national defence. Some
it does badly, some it does well. The more we find out about how government
works, the better able we are to make suggestions to improve the things that
are done badly, and to celebrate the things that are done well.

Why would the public authority bother to reply? #

Under Freedom of Information (FOI) law, they have to respond.

Who makes it? #

WhatDoTheyKnow is created and run by mySociety,
and was initially funded by the JRSST Charitable Trust. mySociety is a project of the
registered charity UK Citizens Online Democracy.
If you like what we're doing, then you can
make a donation.

Making requests #

You're missing the public authority that I want to request from! #

Please contact us with the name of the public authority and,
if you can find it, their contact email address for Freedom of Information requests.
If you'd like to help add a whole category of public authority to the site, for example all
primary care trusts or all schools, then please
edit this shared spreadsheet (Google account required).

How quickly will I get a response? #

By law public authorities must respond "promptly", and in any event not later
than 20 working days after receiving your request. The date of that hard limit
is shown on the page for your request. You will be emailed if this date goes by
without a response, so you can send the public authority another note to remind
them that they are breaking the law. Note: If you had to
clarify your request, the clock starts from that date, instead of the date they
received your initial request.

What if I'm not satisfied with the response? #

If you didn't get the information you asked for, or you didn't get it in time,
then read our page 'Unhappy about the response you got?'.

Can you tell me more of the nitty gritty about the process of making requests? #

Have a look at the
access to official information
pages on the Information Commisioner's website.

If you're requesting information from a Scottish public authority,
the process is very similar. Notable differences are around time
limits for compliance and pseudonyms.
See the Scottish
Information Commissioner's guidance for details.

Can I request information about myself? #

No. Requests made using WhatDoTheyKnow are public, made under the Freedom of
Information Act, and cannot help you find information about a private
individual.

If you would like to know what information a public
authority holds about yourself, you should make a "Subject Access Request" in
private using Data Protection law.  The leaflet Subject
Access - A guide for data subjects (on the Information Commisioner's
website) explains how to do this.

If you see that somebody has included personal information, perhaps
unwittingly, in a request, please contact us
immediately so we can remove it.

I'd like to keep my request secret! (At least until I publish my story) #

WhatDoTheyKnow is currently only designed for public requests. All
responses that we receive are automatically published on the website for anyone
to read.  You should contact the public authority directly if you would like to
make a request in private.  If you're interested in buying a system which helps
you manage FOI requests in secret, then contact us.

Why can I only request information about the environment from some authorities? #

Some public authorities, such as South East Water,
don't come under the Freedom of Information Act, but do come under another law called
the Environmental Information Regulations (EIR). It's a very similar law, so you make a request
to them using WhatDoTheyKnow in just the same way as an FOI request. The only difference
is that on the page where you write you request, it reminds you that you can only
request "environmental information" and tells you what that means. It is quite broad.

So can I request information using EIR from other authorities? #

Yes, just make a Freedom of Information (FOI) request as normal. The
authority has a duty to work out if the Environmental Information Regulations
(EIR) is the more appropriate legislation to reply under.

Privacy policy #

Who gets to see my email address? #

We will not disclose your email address to anyone unless we are obliged to by law,
or you ask us to. This includes the public authority that you are sending a
request to.  They only get to see an email address
@whatdotheyknow.com which is specific to that request.

If you send a message to another user on the site, then it will reveal your
email address to them. You will be told that this is going to happen.

Will you send nasty, brutish spam to my email address? #

Nope. After you sign up to WhatDoTheyKnow we will only send you emails
relating to a request you made, an email alert that you have signed up for,
or for other reasons that you specifically authorise. We will never give or
sell your email addresses to anyone else, unless we are obliged to by law, or
you ask us to.

Why will my name appear publicly on the site? #

It means that someone researching the same area can get in touch with you,
and maybe give you more information or ideas relating to your request.  Also,
we're going to publish the response with the name of the civil servant who
wrote it, so it seems only fair that your name should be public too!
Therefore, we encourage you to use your real name, but you may use a pseudonym
if you would like to be anonymous.

So I can make an FOI request using a pseudonym? #

It is good practice for the public authority to reply to an anonymous request,
except in special circumstances such as if they suspect you of making vexatious
requests. See Freedom of Information Good Practice Guidance No 6
for details.  You should refer to this if a public authority attempts to refuse
a request because you used a pseudonym.

However, there are good reasons to use your real name: see the previous
question.  If nothing else, it avoids the risk of an authority being picky,
ignoring the guidance and refusing your request.

For requests to Scottish public authorities you should ideally provide a
real name, especially if you forsee the possibility of complaining later to the
Scottish Information Commissioner - based on
legal advice
they received in 2005, they will not accept complaints where they find out that
the request was originally made under a pseudonym.

They've asked for my postal address! #

If a public authority asks you for your full, physical address, reply to them saying
that section 8.1.b of the FOI Act asks for an "address for correspondence",
and that the email address you are using is sufficient.

The Ministry of Justice has guidance
on this –
"As well as hard copy written correspondence, requests that are
transmitted electronically (for example, in emails) are acceptable
... If a request is received by email and no postal address is given, the email
address should be treated as the return address."

As if that isn't enough, the Information Commissioner's
Hints for Practitioners say
"Any correspondence could include a request for information. If it is written (this includes e-mail), legible, gives the name of the applicant, an address for reply (which could be electronic), and includes a description of the information required, then it will fall within the scope of the legislation."

No no, they need a postal address to send a paper response! #

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 offer to gift them a scanner, which in that particular case
embarrassed the authority into finding one they had already.

If that doesn't work, and you want to provide your postal address privately
in order to receive the documents, then please contact
us.

How do you moderate request annotations? #

Annotations on WhatDoTheyKnow are to help
people get the information they want, or to give them pointers to places they
can go to help them act on it. We reserve the right to remove anything else.

Endless, political discussions are not allowed.
Post a link to a suitable forum or campaign site elsewhere.

FOI officer questions #

I just got here from bottom of an FOI request, what is going on? #

WhatDoTheyKnow is a service run by a charity. It helps ordinary members
of the public make FOI requests, and easily track and share the responses.

The FOI request you received was made by someone using WhatDoTheyKnow. You can
simply reply to the request as you would any other request from an individual.
The only difference is that your response will be automatically published on
the Internet.

If you have privacy or other concerns, please read the answers below.
You might also like to read this page from the top to find out more about what
the site does from the point of view of a user. You can also search the
site to find the authority that you work for, and view the status of
any requests made using the site.

Finally, we welcome comments and
thoughts from FOI officers, please get in touch.

Why are you publishing responses to FOI requests? #

We think there are lots of benefits. Most importantly it will encourage the
public to be more interested and involved in the work of government. We
also hope that it will reduce the number of duplicate requests on any
subject that a public body will receive. Given that Freedom of Information
responses contain public information, which anybody could easily request
again from the public authority, we think there should be no reason not to
publish it widely.

Are the people making requests real people? #

Yes. For the purposes of keeping track of responses we use
computer-generated email addresses for each request. However, before
they can send a request, each user must register on the site with a
unique email address that we then verify. You can search this site and
find a page listing all requests that each person has made.

An email isn't a sufficient address for an FOI request! #

Yes it is. This
letter from the ICO to Rother District Council gives guidance on the matter, specifically
in the context of requests made via WhatDoTheyKnow.

Aren't you making lots of vexatious requests? #

WhatDoTheyKnow is not making any requests. We are sending requests on
behalf of our users, who are real people making the requests.

Look at it like this - if lots of different people made requests from
different Hotmail email addresses, then you would not think that Microsoft were
making vexatious requests. It is exactly the same if lots of requests are made
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, and for us to
block them when that happens.

If that isn't enough for you, the
letter from the ICO to Rother District Council gives some guidance on the matter.

Isn't it a problem that you publish the names of civil servants and the text of emails? #

Officers or servants responding to requests are doing so on behalf of the
public as part of their job, and we publish their response on that
basis. Usually the names and phone numbers of FOI officers are already
available on authority websites. We also encourage our users to give their real
name too, so it is fair both ways.

Do you publish email addresses or mobile phone numbers? #

We automatically remove email addresses and labelled mobile phone numbers
that are in the email part of responses from public authorities. Please
contact us if we've missed one. We don't currently
remove these from attachments,
such as Word documents.

Can you take down private information about me? #

If you see any information on the site which you'd like us to remove or
hide, then please let us know. We'll then
remove it, provided it is genuinely private information. In particular, we
will remove remarks that are irrelevantly personal.

Credit where credit is due #

Which people made WhatDoTheyKnow? #

Oh, nearly everyone (and maybe you too)!

    Heather Brooke
    (vampy!) has
    been pushing the idea of a UK FOI archive for years now.

    Both Phil Rodgers and Francis Irving
    entered it in a mySociety competition for ideas for public interest websites to build.

    It won,
    and then Chris Lightfoot (RIP :()
    thought up the wheeze of intercepting email responses to requests and
    automatically publishing them.

    Tom Steinberg got the cash to pay for the site from
    a dead chocolate mogul (thank you!) ...

    ... so that Francis Irving, Angie Ahl, Tommy Martin, Louise Crow, Matthew Somerville
    and Tom Steinberg could do the complex mixture of design and coding to build
    what you see today.

    Thanks particularly to Julian Todd (great blog!),
    Francis Davey, and Etienne Pollard for using the site early on and giving
    feedback (and/or legal advice!), and also to all our other users and
    testers.

    Lots of people have been looking up FOI email addresses, and a few
    volunteering to run the site - most especially Adam McGreggor, Alex
    Skene, John Cross and Tony Bowden.

Finally we couldn't do any of this without those
crazy people who volunteer,
amongst many other things, to do the accounts and fill in our VAT return.

You're all stars.

Can I help out? #

Yes please! We're built out of our supporters and volunteers.

You can make a donation. We're a registered charity.

Find out FOI email addresses of authorities that we're missing.

Write a blog post about either WhatDoTheyKnow or an interesting request that you've
    found. Post about it on a forum that you frequent. Tell friends about it.

If you're
    a programmer, get the
    source code
    and send us patches. It's made in Ruby on Rails.

Read more about volunteering with mySociety.


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<% lat = params['mlat'] %>
<% zoom =  params['zoom'] || '12' %>
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<% lon,lat,zoom,layers = cookies["location"].value.first.split(",") %>
<% elsif @user and !@user.home_lon.nil? and !@user.home_lat.nil? %>
<% lon =  @user.home_lon %>
<% lat =  @user.home_lat %>
<% zoom = '10' %>
<% else %>
<% session[:location] = OSM::IPLocation(request.env['REMOTE_ADDR']) unless session[:location] %>
<% if session[:location] %>
<% bbox = true %>
<% minlon = session[:location][:minlon] %>
<% minlat = session[:location][:minlat] %>
<% maxlon = session[:location][:maxlon] %>
<% maxlat = session[:location][:maxlat] %>
<% else %>
<% lon =  '-0.1' %>
<% lat =  '51.5' %>
<% zoom =  params['zoom'] || '5' %>
<% layers = params['layers'] %>
<% end %>
<% end %>

<%= javascript_include_tag 'map.js' %>


Disable GPX uploads.

Disable GPX uploads.

<%= render :partial => 'trace_header' %>

GPX Uploading is currently unavailable

<%= render :partial => 'trace_list' %>

<%= render :partial => 'trace_header' %>
<%= render :partial => 'trace_form' %>
<%= render :partial => 'trace_list' %>


Fixed bug in buttons at top of show-species list.

<%
    @title = 'Species List: ' + h(@species_list.unique_text_name)
    search_params = calc_search_params()
%>
<%=
  tabs = []
  if check_permission(@species_list.user_id)
    tabs.push [ 'Edit Species List', { :action => 'edit_species_list', :id => @species_list } ]
    tabs.push [ 'Destroy', { :action => 'destroy_species_list', :id => @species_list }, { :confirm => "Are you sure?" } ]
  end
  tabs.push ['Save as Plain Text',  { :action => 'make_report', :id => @species_list, :type => 'txt' }, { :target => '_new' }]
  tabs.push ['Save as Rich Text',   { :action => 'make_report', :id => @species_list, :type => 'rtf' }, { :target => '_new' }]
  tabs.push ['Save as Spreadsheet', { :action => 'make_report', :id => @species_list, :type => 'csv' }, { :target => '_new' }]
  show_tabs(tabs)
%>

<%= @title %>

When: <%= @species_list.when %>

Where: <%= h(@species_list.where) %>

Who: <%= user_link(@species_list.user) %>

Notes:
<%= textilize(sanitize(@species_list.notes.to_s)) %>
Members:

  <% if @observation_list %>

<%= pagination_letters(@letters) %>

<%= pagination_numbers(@pages, @letters) %>

		<%
        odd_or_even = 0
	   	for observation in @observation_list
	    	odd_or_even = 1 - odd_or_even
	    %>
		<tr valign="top" class="ListLine<%= odd_or_even %>">

				<%=
				image = observation.thumb_image
				if image
		  			link_to(image_tag(sprintf("thumb/%d.jpg", observation.thumb_image_id), :border => 0),
	            		:controller => 'observer', :action => 'show_observation', :id => observation.id,
	            		:params => search_params)
	          	end
	      		%>

				<%= link_to(textilize_without_paragraph(h(observation.unique_format_name)),
			        :controller => 'observer', :action => 'show_observation', :id => observation.id,
			        :params => search_params) %>

		        <%= location_link(observation.where, observation.location_id) %>:
		        <%= user_link(observation.user) %>:
		        <%= observation.when %>

	    <% end %>

<%= pagination_numbers(@pages, @letters) %>

<%= pagination_letters(@letters) %>

  <% end %>

<% rss_log = @species_list.rss_log
   if rss_log %>
	<%= link_to "Show Log", :controller => 'observer', :action => 'show_rss_log', :id => rss_log.id %>
<% end %>

<%
    @title = 'Species List: ' + h(@species_list.unique_text_name)
    search_params = calc_search_params()
%>
<%=
  tabs = []
  if check_permission(@species_list.user_id)
    tabs.push url_for('Edit Species List', :action => 'edit_species_list', :id => @species_list)
    tabs.push url_for('Destroy', { :action => 'destroy_species_list', :id => @species_list }, :confirm => "Are you sure?")
  end
  tabs.push ['Save as Plain Text',  { :action => 'make_report', :id => @species_list, :type => 'txt' }, { :target => '_new' }]
  tabs.push ['Save as Rich Text',   { :action => 'make_report', :id => @species_list, :type => 'rtf' }, { :target => '_new' }]
  tabs.push ['Save as Spreadsheet', { :action => 'make_report', :id => @species_list, :type => 'csv' }, { :target => '_new' }]
  show_tabs(tabs)
%>

<%= @title %>

When: <%= @species_list.when %>

Where: <%= h(@species_list.where) %>

Who: <%= user_link(@species_list.user) %>

Notes:
<%= textilize(sanitize(@species_list.notes.to_s)) %>
Members:

  <% if @observation_list %>

<%= pagination_letters(@letters) %>

<%= pagination_numbers(@pages, @letters) %>

		<%
        odd_or_even = 0
	   	for observation in @observation_list
	    	odd_or_even = 1 - odd_or_even
	    %>
		<tr valign="top" class="ListLine<%= odd_or_even %>">

				<%=
				image = observation.thumb_image
				if image
		  			link_to(image_tag(sprintf("thumb/%d.jpg", observation.thumb_image_id), :border => 0),
	            		:controller => 'observer', :action => 'show_observation', :id => observation.id,
	            		:params => search_params)
	          	end
	      		%>

				<%= link_to(textilize_without_paragraph(h(observation.unique_format_name)),
			        :controller => 'observer', :action => 'show_observation', :id => observation.id,
			        :params => search_params) %>

		        <%= location_link(observation.where, observation.location_id) %>:
		        <%= user_link(observation.user) %>:
		        <%= observation.when %>

	    <% end %>

<%= pagination_numbers(@pages, @letters) %>

<%= pagination_letters(@letters) %>

  <% end %>

<% rss_log = @species_list.rss_log
   if rss_log %>
	<%= link_to "Show Log", :controller => 'observer', :action => 'show_rss_log', :id => rss_log.id %>
<% end %>


bugfix

bugfix

Users

Welcome, Admin - Use your godgiven right to administrate the feeble users...

<% @progresses.each do |p| %>
	<% if p.task.id == @episode.tasks.last.id %>
		<%= link_to p.user.name, :action => :show_user, :id => p.user.id %> - <%= p.user.team %> - <%= p.created_at %>

	<% end %>
<% end %>

Users

Welcome, Admin - Use your godgiven right to administrate the feeble users...

<% @progresses.each do |p| %>
	<% if p.task.id == @episode.tasks.last.id %>
		<%= link_to p.user, :action => :show_user, :id => p.user.id %> - <%= p.created_at %>

	<% end %>
<% end %>


autofocus on title textfield when creating a new page

<%= "Create a new".t %> <%= @page_class.class_display_name.t %>

<%= header_for_page_create(@page_class) %>

<% form_tag(:action => 'create') do %>
<%= hidden_field_tag 'page_class', @page_class %>

  title
  <%= text_field 'page', 'title', :size => 30 %>
  <%= javascript_tag %( $("page_title").focus() ) %>

  summary
  <%= text_area 'page', 'summary', :size => '30x3' %>

<% if current_user.all_groups.any? -%>

  group

    <%= select_tag 'group_id', options_for_select(
      [['','']] + current_user.all_groups.to_select(:name), params[:group_id]
    ) %>

<% end -%>

  tags
  <%= text_field_tag 'tag_list', '', :size => 30 %>

    <%= submit_tag "Create page".t, :name => 'create' %>

<% end %>

<%= "Create a new".t %> <%= @page_class.class_display_name.t %>

<%= header_for_page_create(@page_class) %>

<% form_tag(:action => 'create') do %>
<%= hidden_field_tag 'page_class', @page_class %>

  title
  <%= text_field 'page', 'title', :size => 30 %>

  summary
  <%= text_area 'page', 'summary', :size => '30x3' %>

<% if current_user.all_groups.any? -%>

  group

    <%= select_tag 'group_id', options_for_select(
      [['','']] + current_user.all_groups.to_select(:name), params[:group_id]
    ) %>

<% end -%>

  tags
  <%= text_field_tag 'tag_list', '', :size => 30 %>

    <%= submit_tag "Create page".t, :name => 'create' %>

<% end %>


Allowing standalone feeds to be language-specific

(ActionItem894)

<%= required_fields_message %>

<%= required f.text_field(:name) %>

<%= required labelled_form_field(_('Limit of articles'), text_field(:article, :limit)) %>

<%= labelled_form_field(_('Include in RSS Feed only posts from language:'), f.select(:language, [[_('All'),  nil ]] + Noosfero.locales.map { |k,v| [v, k]})) %>

<%= labelled_form_field(_('Use as item description:'), select(:article, :feed_item_description, [ [ _('Article abstract'), 'abstract'], [ _('Article body'), 'body']])) %>

<%= labelled_form_field(_('Include in the feed:'), select(:article, :include, [ [ _('All articles'), 'all' ], [ _('Only articles child of the same article as the feed'), 'parent_and_children']] )) %>

<%= required_fields_message %>

<%= required f.text_field(:name) %>

<%= required labelled_form_field(_('Limit of articles'), text_field(:article, :limit)) %>

<%= labelled_form_field(_('Use as item description:'), select(:article, :feed_item_description, [ [ _('Article abstract'), 'abstract'], [ _('Article body'), 'body']])) %>

<%= labelled_form_field(_('Include in the feed:'), select(:article, :include, [ [ _('All articles'), 'all' ], [ _('Only articles child of the same article as the feed'), 'parent_and_children']] )) %>


Added a link to graph bat's weights from weigh cage page

 Weigh bats in <%= @cage.name %>

Bat
Today's Weight
Note
Previous Weight
Change
Change Per Day
<% for bat in @bats %>

	<%= link_to bat.band, :controller => 'bats', :action => 'weigh_bat', :id => bat, :redirectme => bat.cage %>

	<% if bat.weights.today %>
		<%=h bat.weights.today.weight %>
		<%=h bat.weights.today.note %>
	<% end %>

	<% if bat.weights.length >= 2 %>
		<% if bat.weights.today %>
			<%= bat.weights[1].weight %> (<%= nice_date(bat.weights[1].date) %>)
			<% percent_change = ((bat.weights.today.weight / bat.weights[1].weight - 1) * 100) %>
			<%= ("%0.2f" % percent_change).to_f %> %
			<%= ("%0.2f" % (percent_change / ((bat.weights.today.date - bat.weights[1].date) / 1.day))).to_f %> %
		<% else %>

			<%= bat.weights[0].weight %> (<%= nice_date(bat.weights[0].date) %>)

		<% end %>
		<%= link_to 'Graph Weights', :controller => 'bats', :action => 'graph_weights', :id => bat %>
	<% end %>

	<% if bat.weights.today %>
		<% if bat.weights.today.weight < bat.species.lower_weight_limit %>
			<warning>Warning: below species lower weight limit (<%= bat.species.lower_weight_limit %>)</warning>
		<% elsif bat.weights.today.weight > bat.species.upper_weight_limit %>
			<warning>Warning: above species upper weight limit (<%= bat.species.upper_weight_limit %>)</warning>
		<% end %>
	<% end %>

<% end %>

<% if @bats.length == 0 %>
There are no bats in this cage.
<% end %>

<% if @updateable_tasks != nil %>

The following weighing tasks will be updated after all bats in cage have been weighed:

<%= render :partial => 'tasks/tasks_list', :locals =>{:tasks => @updateable_tasks, :div_id => 'weighing_tasks',
							:same_type_task_list => false, :manage => false, :sorted_by => 'repeat_code'} %>

<% else %>

No weighing tasks for this cage will be updated after all bats are weighed

<% end %>

<%= link_to 'Back', :controller => 'cages', :action => 'choose_cage_to_weigh' %>

 Weigh bats in <%= @cage.name %>

Bat
Today's Weight
Note
Previous Weight
Change
Change Per Day
<% for bat in @bats %>

	<%= link_to bat.band, :controller => 'bats', :action => 'weigh_bat', :id => bat, :redirectme => bat.cage %>

	<% if bat.weights.today %>
		<%=h bat.weights.today.weight %>
		<%=h bat.weights.today.note %>
	<% end %>

	<% if bat.weights.length >= 2 %>
		<% if bat.weights.today %>
			<%= bat.weights[1].weight %> (<%= nice_date(bat.weights[1].date) %>)
			<% percent_change = ((bat.weights.today.weight / bat.weights[1].weight - 1) * 100) %>
			<%= ("%0.2f" % percent_change).to_f %> %
			<%= ("%0.2f" % (percent_change / ((bat.weights.today.date - bat.weights[1].date) / 1.day))).to_f %> %
		<% else %>

			<%= bat.weights[0].weight %> (<%= nice_date(bat.weights[0].date) %>)
		<% end %>
	<% end %>

	<% if bat.weights.today %>
		<% if bat.weights.today.weight < bat.species.lower_weight_limit %>
			<warning>Warning: below species lower weight limit (<%= bat.species.lower_weight_limit %>)</warning>
		<% elsif bat.weights.today.weight > bat.species.upper_weight_limit %>
			<warning>Warning: above species upper weight limit (<%= bat.species.upper_weight_limit %>)</warning>
		<% end %>
	<% end %>

<% end %>

<% if @bats.length == 0 %>
There are no bats in this cage.
<% end %>

<% if @updateable_tasks != nil %>

The following weighing tasks will be updated after all bats in cage have been weighed:

<%= render :partial => 'tasks/tasks_list', :locals =>{:tasks => @updateable_tasks, :div_id => 'weighing_tasks',
							:same_type_task_list => false, :manage => false, :sorted_by => 'repeat_code'} %>

<% else %>

No weighing tasks for this cage will be updated after all bats are weighed

<% end %>

<%= link_to 'Back', :controller => 'cages', :action => 'choose_cage_to_weigh' %>


Slightly better plugin administration page

ActionItem2392

<%= _('Manage plugins') %>

<%= _('Select which plugins you want to enable in your environment') %>

<% labelled_form_for(:environment, @environment, :url => {:action => 'update'}) do |f| %>

    <% @active_plugins.sort_by(&:plugin_name).each do |plugin|   %>

        <%= check_box_tag "environment[enabled_plugins][]", plugin, @environment.enabled_plugins.include?(plugin.to_s), :id => plugin.plugin_name %>

          <%= hidden_field_tag('environment[enabled_plugins][]', '') %>
          <%= plugin.plugin_name %>

          <%= plugin.plugin_description %>
          <% if plugin.has_admin_url? %>

            <%= link_to(_('Configuration'), plugin.admin_url) %>
          <% end %>

    <% end %>

  <% button_bar do %>
    <%= submit_button('save', _('Save changes')) %>
    <%= button :back, _('Back to admin panel'), :controller => 'admin_panel', :action => 'index' %>
  <% end %>

<% end %>

<%= _('Manage plugins') %>

<%= _('Here you can enable or disable any plugin of your environment.')%>

<% labelled_form_for(:environment, @environment, :url => {:action => 'update'}) do |f| %>

    <%= _('Plugin') %>
    <%= _('Description') %>
    <%= _('Enabled?') %>

  <%= hidden_field_tag('environment[enabled_plugins][]', '') %>
  <% @active_plugins.each do |plugin|   %>

      <%= plugin.has_admin_url? ? link_to(plugin.plugin_name, plugin.admin_url) : plugin.plugin_name %>
      <%= plugin.plugin_description %>
      <%= check_box_tag "environment[enabled_plugins][]", plugin, @environment.enabled_plugins.include?(plugin.to_s), :id => plugin.plugin_name %>

  <% end %>

  <% button_bar do %>
    <%= submit_button('save', _('Save changes')) %>
    <%= button :back, _('Back to admin panel'), :controller => 'admin_panel', :action => 'index' %>
  <% end %>

<% end %>


Get rid of excess assignment in template

<% commit = header %>

    SHA1:
    <%=h commit.sha1 %>

    Author:
    <%=h commit.author %>

    Committer:
    <%=h commit.committer %>

    Log message:

<%=h commit.log_message %>

      Review status:

      <%= review_status(commit) %>

<% commit = header %>

    SHA1:
    <%=h commit.sha1 %>

    Author:
    <%=h commit.author %>

    Committer:
    <%=h commit.committer %>

    Log message:

<%=h commit.log_message %>

  <% hash = commit.applicable_owners_files_hash %>

      Review status:

      <%= review_status(commit) %>


git-svn-id: http://svn.castleproject.org:8080/svn/castle/trunk@76 73e77b4c-caa6-f847-a29a-24ab75ae54b6

<% @page_title = "Home" %>
<% @main_title = "Welcome" %>
<%= render "/home/deflinks" %>

Castle is a small collection of tools and a simple inversion of control
container intended to work together to make development of
applications (enterprise and server like) easier.

While we don't pursue a paradigm shift, we do aim to
provide a reference to create application with a nice
design and yet adhere to values of pragmatic programmers
like orthogonality and reversibility.

To achieve good design, Castle promotes

Component oriented programming

Aspect oriented programming

Separation of concerns

Our sub projects help us delivering this capabilities to
the CLI. They are totally independent and can be used alone
as well.

Castle container

Castle Container is a very simple inversion of control
container which can combine facilities to grow orthogonally.
For example, you can add a NHibernate facility - thus allowing your
data access components can have references to NHibernate sessions -
 and use our AOP facility which will allow your components to use mixins
and interceptors.

These facilities work side-by-side, without interfering
or depending on each other, to provide you a set of features.

Castle container

11-22-04: Alpha-1 Release

   First release of all pieces that
   constitues the project is now available.
   Click here to download

11-19-04: New site is up and running

   The http://www.castleproject.org is released.

Mailing list

If you want to discuss features, ask question or anything related, please subscribe to
castle-devel mailing list.

<% @page_title = "Home" %>
<% @main_title = "Welcome" %>
<%= render "/home/deflinks" %>

Castle is a small collection of tools and a simple inversion of control
container intended to work together to make development of
applications (enterprise and server like) easier.

While we don't pursue a paradigm shift, we do aim to
provide a reference to create application with a nice
design and yet adhere to values of pragmatic programmers
like orthogonality and reversibility.

To achieve good design, Castle promotes

Component oriented programming

Aspect oriented programming

Separation of concerns

Our sub projects help us delivering this capabilities to
the CLI. They are totally independent and can be used alone
as well.

Castle container

Castle Container is a very simple inversion of control
container which can combine facilities to grow orthogonally.
For example, you can add a NHibernate facility - thus allowing your
data access components can have references to NHibernate sessions -
 and use our AOP facility which will allow your components to use mixins
and interceptors.

These facilities work side-by-side, without interfering
or depending on each other, to provide you a set of features.

Mailing list

If you want to discuss features, ask question or anything related, please subscribe to
castle-devel mailing list.


ActionItem9: adding a better screen for anonymous users

git-svn-id: 43659daf80e124e0b603d67096418e58e4f21099@131 3f533792-8f58-4932-b0fe-aaf55b0a4547

<%= link_to _('Login.'), :action => 'login' %>
<%= _('You need to login to be able to use all the features in this virtual community.') %>

<%= link_to _('Sign up.'), :action => 'signup' %>
<%= _('Register as a user to become a member of this virtual community.') %>

<%= link_to _('Login'), :action => 'login' %>
<%= link_to _('Sign up'), :action => 'signup' %>


tweak JRSST link

tweak JRSST link

<% @title = "About" %>

<%= render :partial => 'sidebar' %>

Introduction to WhatDoTheyKnow #

What is WhatDoTheyKnow for? #

To help you find out inside information about the UK Government and UK public bodies.
The site helps people access information about central government, local government,
Parliament, the NHS, the armed forces, state funded schools and universities and
other public authorities.

You can also use the site to find out information that regulators hold about businesses,
charities and other organisations.

How does the site work? #

You choose the public authority that you would like information from, then
write a brief note describing what you want to know. We then send your request
to the public authority. Any response received is automatically published on the
website for you and anyone else to find and read.

Why would I bother to do this? #

You pay taxes, and then government does things with the money. All sorts of
things that affect your life, from health care through to national defence. Some
it does badly, some it does well. The more we find out about how government
works, the better able we are to make suggestions to improve the things that
are done badly, and to celebrate the things that are done well.
Some people also use the site for research.

Why would the public authority bother to reply? #

Under Freedom of Information (FOI) law, they have to respond. The response
will either contain the information you want, or give a valid legal reason why
it has not been provided.

Does useful information get released through the site? #

Yes. Thousands of documents have been released through the site.
See also: 366
Interesting things that we know because of WhatDoTheyKnow.

How many people use the site? #

We have over 30,000 registered users and around 15% to 20% of requests to UK Central Government are made through the site.

Who makes WhatDoTheyKnow? #

WhatDoTheyKnow is run and maintained by
UK Citizens Online
Democracy (UKCOD) as part of its
mySociety project.
UKCOD is a registered charity in England and Wales (no.
1076346).
UKCOD is also registered company (no.
03277032)
and a registered data controller (no.
Z9602302).
The address of UKCOD's registered office is 483 Green Lanes, London, N13 4BS.
UKCOD is not a public body.

The site was initially
funded by the JRSST
Charitable Trust.

If you like what we're doing, then you can
make a donation.

How can I keep up with news about WhatDoTheyKnow?#

We have a blog and a twitter feed.

Next, read about making requests -->


Wasn't showing subscribe link when nothing found.

<% @show_tips = @xapian_requests.nil? || (@total_hits == 0) %>

<% if @query.nil? %>
    <% @title = "Search Freedom of Information requests, public authorities and users" %>

<%=@title%>

<% elsif @total_hits == 0 %>
    <% @title = "Nothing found for '" + h(@query) + "'" %>
<% else %>
    <% @title = "Results page " + @page.to_s %>
<% end%>

<% form_tag({:action => "search_redirect"}, {:id => "search_form"}) do %>

       <%= text_field_tag 'query', @query, { :size => 40 } %>
       <%= hidden_field_tag 'sortby', params[:sortby] %>
       <%= submit_tag "Search" %>
       <% if not @show_tips %>
             Advanced tips
       <% end %>

<% end %>

<% if not @query.nil? %>

    <%=link_to_unless @sortby.nil?, "Show most relevant results first", search_url(@query, nil) %>
    |
    <%=link_to_unless @sortby == 'newest', "Newest results first", search_url(@query, 'newest') %>
    <% if @sortby == 'described' %>
    | Recently described results first
    <% end %>

<% end %>

<% if @total_hits == 0 %>

<%=@title %>

<% end %>

<% if not @query.nil? %>
    <% if @spelling_correction %>

Did you mean: <%= link_to @spelling_correction, search_url(@spelling_correction, @sortby) %>

    <% end %>

    <% if @track_thing and (@xapian_bodies.results.size > 0 or @xapian_users.results.size > 0 or @total_hits == 0)%>
        <%= render :partial => 'track/tracking_links', :locals => { :track_thing => @track_thing, :own_request => false, :location => 'main' } %>
    <% end %>

    <% if @xapian_bodies.results.size > 0 %>

<%= "Public authorities " + ((@page-1)*@bodies_per_page+1).to_s + "-" + [@page*@bodies_per_page, @xapian_bodies.matches_estimated].min.to_s + " of " + @xapian_bodies.matches_estimated.to_s + " for '" + h(@query) + "'" %>

        <% for result in @xapian_bodies.results %>
            <%= render :partial => 'body/body_listing_single', :locals => { :public_body => result[:model] }  %>
        <% end %>

        <%= will_paginate WillPaginate::Collection.new(@page, @bodies_per_page, @xapian_bodies.matches_estimated) %>
    <% end %>

    <% if @xapian_users.results.size > 0 %>

<%= "People " + ((@page-1)*@users_per_page+1).to_s + "-" + [@page*@users_per_page, @xapian_users.matches_estimated].min.to_s + " of " + @xapian_users.matches_estimated.to_s + " for '" + h(@query) + "'" %>

        <% for result in @xapian_users.results %>
            <%= render :partial => 'user/user_listing_single', :locals => { :display_user => result[:model] } %>
        <% end %>

        <%= will_paginate WillPaginate::Collection.new(@page, @users_per_page, @xapian_users.matches_estimated) %>
    <% end %>

    <% if @xapian_requests.results.size > 0 %>

<%= "FOI requests " + ((@page-1)*@requests_per_page+1).to_s + "-" + [@page*@requests_per_page, @xapian_requests.matches_estimated].min.to_s + " of " + @xapian_requests.matches_estimated.to_s + " for '" + h(@query) + "'" %>

        <% if @track_thing %>
            <%= render :partial => 'track/tracking_links', :locals => { :track_thing => @track_thing, :own_request => false, :location => 'main' } %>
        <% end %>

        <% for result in @xapian_requests.results %>
            <%= render :partial => 'request/request_listing_via_event', :locals => { :event => result[:model], :info_request => result[:model].info_request } %>
        <% end %>

        <%= will_paginate WillPaginate::Collection.new(@page, @requests_per_page, @xapian_requests.matches_estimated) %>
        <% if @track_thing %>

            <%= render :partial => 'track/tracking_links', :locals => { :track_thing => @track_thing, :own_request => false, :location => 'main' } %>
        <% end %>
    <% end %>
<% end %>

<% if @show_tips %>

Search tips

Enter words that you want to find separated by spaces, e.g. climbing lane

Use OR (in capital letters) where you don't mind which word,  e.g. commons OR lords

Use quotes when you want to find an exact phrase, e.g. "Liverpool City Council"

variety: with value sent, followup_sent, response, comment, authority or user to select type of thing to search for.

Type status: to select based on the status or historical status of the request, see table below.

requested_from:home_office to restrict to requests from the <%= link_to "Home Office", show_public_body_url(:url_name => 'home_office') %>, typing the name as in the URL.

requested_by:julian_todd to restrict to requests made by <%= link_to "Julian Todd", show_user_url(:url_name => 'julian_todd') %>, typing the name as in the URL.

request: to restrict to a specific request, typing the title as in the URL.

Type 01/01/2008..14/01/2008 to only show things that happened in the first two weeks of January.

Read about advanced search operators, such as proximity and wildcards.

status:waiting_response	 Waiting for the public authority to reply

status:not_held	 The public authority does not have the information requested

status:rejected	 The request was rejected by the public authority

status:partially_successful	 Some of the information requested has been received

status:successful	 All of the information requested has been received

status:waiting_clarification	 The public authority would like part of the request explained

status:waiting_classification	 A new response has arrived, but it hasn't been categorised yet

status:requires_admin	 A strange reponse, required attention by the WhatDoTheyKnow team

<% end %>

<% @show_tips = @xapian_requests.nil? || (@total_hits == 0) %>

<% if @query.nil? %>
    <% @title = "Search Freedom of Information requests, public authorities and users" %>

<%=@title%>

<% elsif @total_hits == 0 %>
    <% @title = "Nothing found for '" + h(@query) + "'" %>
<% else %>
    <% @title = "Results page " + @page.to_s %>
<% end%>

<% form_tag({:action => "search_redirect"}, {:id => "search_form"}) do %>

       <%= text_field_tag 'query', @query, { :size => 40 } %>
       <%= hidden_field_tag 'sortby', params[:sortby] %>
       <%= submit_tag "Search" %>
       <% if not @show_tips %>
             Advanced tips
       <% end %>

<% end %>

<% if not @query.nil? %>

    <%=link_to_unless @sortby.nil?, "Show most relevant results first", search_url(@query, nil) %>
    |
    <%=link_to_unless @sortby == 'newest', "Newest results first", search_url(@query, 'newest') %>
    <% if @sortby == 'described' %>
    | Recently described results first
    <% end %>

<% end %>

<% if @total_hits == 0 %>

<%=@title %>

<% end %>

<% if not @query.nil? %>
    <% if @spelling_correction %>

Did you mean: <%= link_to @spelling_correction, search_url(@spelling_correction, @sortby) %>

    <% end %>

    <% if @track_thing and (@xapian_bodies.results.size > 0 or @xapian_users.results.size > 0)%>
        <%= render :partial => 'track/tracking_links', :locals => { :track_thing => @track_thing, :own_request => false, :location => 'main' } %>
    <% end %>

    <% if @xapian_bodies.results.size > 0 %>

<%= "Public authorities " + ((@page-1)*@bodies_per_page+1).to_s + "-" + [@page*@bodies_per_page, @xapian_bodies.matches_estimated].min.to_s + " of " + @xapian_bodies.matches_estimated.to_s + " for '" + h(@query) + "'" %>

        <% for result in @xapian_bodies.results %>
            <%= render :partial => 'body/body_listing_single', :locals => { :public_body => result[:model] }  %>
        <% end %>

        <%= will_paginate WillPaginate::Collection.new(@page, @bodies_per_page, @xapian_bodies.matches_estimated) %>
    <% end %>

    <% if @xapian_users.results.size > 0 %>

<%= "People " + ((@page-1)*@users_per_page+1).to_s + "-" + [@page*@users_per_page, @xapian_users.matches_estimated].min.to_s + " of " + @xapian_users.matches_estimated.to_s + " for '" + h(@query) + "'" %>

        <% for result in @xapian_users.results %>
            <%= render :partial => 'user/user_listing_single', :locals => { :display_user => result[:model] } %>
        <% end %>

        <%= will_paginate WillPaginate::Collection.new(@page, @users_per_page, @xapian_users.matches_estimated) %>
    <% end %>

    <% if @xapian_requests.results.size > 0 %>

<%= "FOI requests " + ((@page-1)*@requests_per_page+1).to_s + "-" + [@page*@requests_per_page, @xapian_requests.matches_estimated].min.to_s + " of " + @xapian_requests.matches_estimated.to_s + " for '" + h(@query) + "'" %>

        <% if @track_thing %>
            <%= render :partial => 'track/tracking_links', :locals => { :track_thing => @track_thing, :own_request => false, :location => 'main' } %>
        <% end %>

        <% for result in @xapian_requests.results %>
            <%= render :partial => 'request/request_listing_via_event', :locals => { :event => result[:model], :info_request => result[:model].info_request } %>
        <% end %>

        <%= will_paginate WillPaginate::Collection.new(@page, @requests_per_page, @xapian_requests.matches_estimated) %>
        <% if @track_thing %>

            <%= render :partial => 'track/tracking_links', :locals => { :track_thing => @track_thing, :own_request => false, :location => 'main' } %>
        <% end %>
    <% end %>
<% end %>

<% if @show_tips %>

Search tips

Enter words that you want to find separated by spaces, e.g. climbing lane

Use OR (in capital letters) where you don't mind which word,  e.g. commons OR lords

Use quotes when you want to find an exact phrase, e.g. "Liverpool City Council"

variety: with value sent, followup_sent, response, comment, authority or user to select type of thing to search for.

Type status: to select based on the status or historical status of the request, see table below.

requested_from:home_office to restrict to requests from the <%= link_to "Home Office", show_public_body_url(:url_name => 'home_office') %>, typing the name as in the URL.

requested_by:julian_todd to restrict to requests made by <%= link_to "Julian Todd", show_user_url(:url_name => 'julian_todd') %>, typing the name as in the URL.

request: to restrict to a specific request, typing the title as in the URL.

Type 01/01/2008..14/01/2008 to only show things that happened in the first two weeks of January.

Read about advanced search operators, such as proximity and wildcards.

status:waiting_response	 Waiting for the public authority to reply

status:not_held	 The public authority does not have the information requested

status:rejected	 The request was rejected by the public authority

status:partially_successful	 Some of the information requested has been received

status:successful	 All of the information requested has been received

status:waiting_clarification	 The public authority would like part of the request explained

status:waiting_classification	 A new response has arrived, but it hasn't been categorised yet

status:requires_admin	 A strange reponse, required attention by the WhatDoTheyKnow team

<% end %>


Hid roles task for non-admin users.

Hid roles task for non-admin users.

            <%= link_to "Home", :controller => "selfservice", :action => "index" %>

        <% if session[:role].include?(:admin, :super) %>

            	<%= link_to "Roles", :controller => "role", :action => "index" %>

        <% end %>

            <%= link_to "Migrate", :controller => "migration", :action => "index" %>

            <%= link_to "Home", :controller => "selfservice", :action => "index" %>

            <%= link_to "Roles", :controller => "role", :action => "index" %>

            <%= link_to "Migrate", :controller => "migration", :action => "index" %>


changed index

changed index

Welcome, <%= User.active_user.name.capitalize %>...

  Because of the badly formed task 2:3, the teams EoN, Multiplay UK, SAFT and uniQrew wasted
  4-5 hours of their game time. They were the only players to be stuck on this task
  for this amount of time. Because we want to be fair admins, we will take
  one hour of their final time.

  <%= episode_link_for_user(User.active_user) %>

  <% unless User.active_user.progresses.empty? %>

Episode	Task	Placement

  <% User.active_user.progresses.each do |p| %>

<%= p.episode.name %>	<%= p.task.name %>	<%= p.position %>

  <% end %>

  <% end %>

Welcome, <%= User.active_user.name.capitalize %>...

  Because of the badly formed task 2:3, the teams EoN, Multiplay UK and uniQrew wasted
  4-5 hours of their game time. They were the only players to be stuck on this task
  for this amount of time. Because we want to be fair admins, we will take
  one hour of their final time.

  <%= episode_link_for_user(User.active_user) %>

  <% unless User.active_user.progresses.empty? %>

Episode	Task	Placement

  <% User.active_user.progresses.each do |p| %>

<%= p.episode.name %>	<%= p.task.name %>	<%= p.position %>

  <% end %>

  <% end %>