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In your robots.txt, make sure that as well as the traditional
Disallow: /wiki/index.php?
you also include
Disallow: /wiki/Special:Random
Otherwise you’ll get some rather confused visitors…

Yesterday evening, whilst processing the minutes of the Belfast City Council Policy and Resources Committee from 18 March 2005, I noticed that they referred to a report into the Council’s strategic approach to communications - including a review of the Council’s corporate identity, the development of the website as a key communications tool and a [...]

Since Tuesday of this week I’ve been watching the effects of Google spidering the nigov wiki. On Tuesday, there were about 8 pages indexed. On Wednesday it was around 80. By last night there were 800.
As I said earlier, I expected this promotion of the Belfast City Council minutes to first class internet citizens to [...]

Back in 2002, Councillor Hartley visited the Cemetery Records stored in the basement of Belfast City Hall, and reported to the Parks and Amenities Sub-Committee that he believed that the humidity and temperature in the basement was too high for storing such important historical documents. He suggested that this needed examined, and that consideration be [...]

Joel has posted the initial draft of his Management Training Reading List, with 75 “must read” books on general business, software management, and corporate biography.
I think I’ve read 42 of the 75, and some of the others certainly look like I should read them. But I’m not going to aim for the 75 - I [...]

On 4th October 2005, I made a Freedom of Information request in relation to DETI’s “Production of an E-Business Strategy” consultancy award to Cap Gemini Ernst & Young in December 2000. As part of my request I asked for copies of the unsuccessful tender submissions. This request was passed to the Central Procurement Directorate, who [...]

Dear Mr Bowden
I refer to your E-Mail dated 13 November 2005 in which you requested information regarding an exhumation to be carried out in the City Cemetery as per the minutes of the Parks and Amenities Sub-Committee of 11 October 2005.
Having sought advice from the Police Service Northern Ireland and BCC Legal Services I [...]

This morning I received a letter from the Central Procurement Directorate in relation to one of my Freedom of Information requests. When I requested information on the DETI “Production of an E-Business Strategy” contract (contract price £30k, actual spend £183k), one of the things I asked for was the unsuccessful tenders. This was passed to [...]

It seems that someone was actually considering staging “Jerry Springer: The Opera” at the Waterfront Hall in Belfast.
It is, of course, possible that they were figuring that having the DUP et al picket the production, with all the accompanying publicity, would be a good thing, allowing them to slash their marketing budget by 90%, and [...]

James Stewart picks up on my rant about Belfast City Council’s minutes system with lament on e-Government in general.
He makes the interesting comment that:
Properly modelling government structures is a complex business,
and my experience so far that it’s a lot of work to build the critical mass
required to make a wiki work in [...]

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