Martyn Dewar

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> I've spoken to journalists who search for "would like to recall" on WDTK to look for embarrassing/newsworthy things that public authorities didn't mean to make public. From a transparency...

> Am I correct in thinking that the difference between 1 and 2 is that 1 will leave the recall message visible on the request page, but that 2 would...

> I think the only option we should consider here is option 1 +1, I think this is the best approach. I hated these messages when I worked with Exchange...

> When I tried uploading the attached spreadsheet to WDTK (for [mysociety/whatdotheyknow-theme#667](https://github.com/mysociety/whatdotheyknow-theme/issues/667)) I keep getting '504 Gateway Time-out'. > > ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/47503358/77905261-d6e48380-727d-11ea-8d82-d7bec40cbf1f.png) > > This happens whether I choose the `dry...

> * There could be performance implications (though this can be mitigated by resizing & compressing on upload) Noting the moment of travel on [#1155 ](https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/issues/1155#issuecomment-963128672) - would [ActiveStorage variants](https://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_storage_overview.html#transforming-images)...

> The National Archives allow user-generated tags; might be a lot to learn from their approach. As do NARA over in the United States - their "Citizen Archivist" programme has...

Requests 707565 and 707566 on WDTK are duplicates - the cause, in this instance, is the administrator 'clicking' the confirmation link twice (computer glitch). Having request confirmation links expire once...

> There are two proposals here: > > 1. to allow admins to re-send any message to any email address > > 2. to allow admins to re-send messages sent...

Improving this functionality would potentially reduce administration tasks on WDTK, as we could usefully provide public bodies with upload links, preventing data being hosted off-site (e.g. on Sharepoint or Dropbox)...

> On a very closely related point we should stop calculated home pages eg. googlemail.com > > Do we need a list of exceptions ? > > This could be...