User:Alex skene

My FOI requests

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/user/alex_skene

WhatDoTheyKnow stuff

• Common wdtk support responses
• How publication schemes could be improved
• Adapting WDTK for New Zealand
• Adapting WDTK for Ireland

Trying out Semantic Mediawiki stuff

• I installed the Semantic Bundle for Mediawiki to:
  • host local non-PDF copies of the ICO & IT decision text & metadata. Google isn't allowed to spider the IT website decisions...
  • be able to automatically re-use this data in other pages (eg the FOIA Exemption pages) using Functions

• Starting with a couple of ICO decisions:
• FER0220492
• FER0269464

• 30/04 - now have a form to add in decisions: Form:DNSummaryBox
• 30/04 - and a category for them: Category:ICO_Decision_Notice
• 01/05 - they're now all uploaded, but Special:ImportCSV doesn't seem to support importing multiple templates which means that only 1 decision has been added. may look to denormalise relationship between DN & 1-many Decisions, ie into single template.
• 01/05 - ick. re-generated all the ICO data as xml, but found a bug in ImportXml (due to way it implements php's xml_set_character_data_handler and it barfs on ampersands "&" in the XML....
• DNFindingLookup - page to hold DNFinding > DNSubFinding mappings to make searches easier
• 03/05 - more bugs found in the importxml - it skips long strings, £ signs, etc... Leaving it as it is for the time being (I've reported the bugs to the dev) - the only thing wrong with the ICO data loaded is the Summary text. All the rest is OK, so good enough for searches & display of the main case data on other screens.

• TODO NOW

• fix date bug - decision notice dates dd/mm/yyyy (d/m/Y) are being silently converted to M d Y in some cases eg 12/05/2008 => 5 December 2008
• template should be top-left aligned
• include a source reference & link to copyright / re-use statement
• look to format template dates to dd/mm/yyyy rather than d M Y

• TODO NEXT

• need exemption pages for EIR & add in decisions
• findings to be rolled up correctly in #ask search eg 14.1 > 14
• re-populate data to fix decision_summary truncated data

• TODO LATER

• Information Tribunal cases
• SIC cases
• Court of session cases
• Full text (ie non-PDF) of ICO cases
• links between appeals on foiwiki & their assoc WDTK requests, meta-requests
• links from appeals to WDTK requests made from non-related people asking for info released from decision, eg Ganesh, Matthew Davis, etc.