Alice Newton - former Product Manager for GOV.UK, Government Digital Service

This sprint for gov.uk/government: social sharing buttons and email alerts for people and roles

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Here are the most significant things we’re working on in GOV.UK Departments and Policy this sprint: Social sharing buttons. We're going to add sharing buttons for social media (specifically Facebook and Twitter) onto consultations, news articles, speeches and world location news articles. We …

Link validation and cleanup

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The majority of problems reported by users on the departments and policy section of GOV.UK are about bad links. In the last couple of days, we've added validation checks to make sure all links created using markdown in the departments …

This sprint for gov.uk/government: previewing CSVs and Worldwide surveys

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Here are some of the most significant things we're working on in the government section of GOV.UK this sprint: Adding footnotes to detailed guides and HTML publications Creating a preview to allow users to see the contents of a CSV …

Translations: encore plus qu'avant

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Since we added the Worldwide section in March, GOV.UK has supported translation for world locations, world organisations, world location news articles, worldwide priorities, as well as publications and news stories. You can toggle to the translated version of content by …

This sprint for gov.uk/government: better policy detail and tagging to topics

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Here are the most significant things we’re working on in the government section of GOV.UK in this sprint: Improve policy supporting detail pages. The supporting detail pages for policies explain the government schemes used to implement each policy. For example, on the …

Goodbye series, hello collections

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The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. From today, the "series" format in the departments and policy section will metamorphose to become "collections". This post contains essential information for publishers …

This sprint for gov.uk/government: official documents, archiving and unpublishing

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Here are the most significant things we’re working on in the government section of GOV.UK in this sprint: Finishing off work on document series to become collections. This will be shipped today, making the workflow on collections (formerly known as …

This sprint for gov.uk/government: sorting documents in collections, publisher improvements and more

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Here are the most significant things we'll be working on in the government section of GOV.UK in this sprint: Translating contact details. We're going to make contact details on organisation pages (in particular Wales Office) and Worldwide office pages (embassies …