Ideas for the Community & Activism Call - 2023-11-09

[garethrees]

The next call will be on 2023-11-09

As per usual, if there's anything that you'd like to flag for the agenda, either make a note of it here, or use the flag for the c&A label in the inbox.

[garethrees]

Should we remove Notes from the text indexed for authority search? It's getting terrible 😞 (https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/issues/7552#issuecomment-1779488513, https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/issues/4426#issuecomment-1541839416)

[HelenWDTK]

Should we remove Notes from the text indexed for authority search? It's getting terrible

1000 times yes! 🙏

[WilliamWDTK]

Should we remove Notes from the text indexed for authority search?

Certainly notes from tags. It might be useful in certain instances to keep indexing any body-specific notes (e.g. where we note alternative names beyond the short one).

[confirmordeny]

Should we remove the listings for Integrated Care Partnerships?

[confirmordeny]

Should we change the default text for new requests?

[confirmordeny]

Should we have a category for requests that are refused but with a helpful suggestion e.g. re submitting a more focused request that will be within cost limit? [suggestion from a user]

[garethrees]

https://github.com/mysociety/whatdotheyknow-private/issues/214

[garethrees]

Had a nice win last time with the ICO notice about not making requesters submit requests through webforms. Maybe now it's time to target response_links (recent example, another)? Specifically I think we could improve our note and/or create a template response that tells the user how to complain – give them the words to ~copy paste to the authority.

[garethrees]

Some themes/terms to test https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/issues/6402#issuecomment-1788602809