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- From: "Tor de Vries" <TDevries AT engenderhealth.org>
- To: "Global Reproductive Health IT Support list" <grhits AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [grhits] Typo3 Link Disclaimers
- Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:17:44 -0500
| A. Yes, if these sites have links to outside organizations. A. Probably not MOH, but to be safe, wouldn’t hurt. Also would give the MOH the distance from the project it might want. A. Does not apply to internal web sites. From: grhits-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:grhits-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Jojo Almario Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 9:10 AM To: Global Reproductive Health IT Support list Subject: Re: [grhits] Typo3 Link Disclaimers Thanks for this info, Tor.  
We will check with our Comms department about it also. From: 
grhits-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:grhits-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On 
Behalf Of Tor de Vries Hey 
all...   Last week, I was 
notified that USAID wanted web sites to include legal disclaimers on external 
links -- e.g. you click on a link to an external web site, and before you go 
there, you are taken to a page with a legal disclaimer to remind you that you're 
leaving the officially-supported web site and going out into a scary digital 
wilderness beyond our control.  At the end of this email, I've included the 
criteria that we received from a CTO at USAID/W.  I am told this is 
effective immediately.    This affects some of 
EngenderHealth's sites, particularly ones powered by Typo3, the open-source 
content management system (CMS).  After some monkeying around with various 
band-aid approaches in PHP, I finally realized the solution should just be a 
Typo3 extension.  There already was a legal disclaimer extension in the T3 
Extension Repository (TER) but it had no documentation and I couldn't get it to 
work.  So I spent the last couple of days developing a working and fully 
documented extension.  If you use Typo3, and if you have a need for this 
kind of legal disclaimer, you can get the "Link Disclaimer" T3X extension file 
from the TER:   http://typo3.org/extensions/repository/view/link_disclaimer/   I've tested this on 
several sites, both under IIS and Linux/Apache, and Typo3 versions 3.8.0 and 
4.1.3.  If you need it, I hope it's useful to you.  Of course, I wish 
we didn't need it......     Regards, Tor   -- Tor 
de Vries, MFA Phone: (212) 
561-8538 Support 
EngenderHealth!       ---------------------------------- Criteria for Links to 
Non-USAID funded websites or documents from GH/PRH funded 
websites Websites funded in 
whole or in part by GH/PRH may include links to non-USAID funded documents 
and/or non-USAID funded websites. However, when determining the feasibility of a 
link, think about the purpose. USAID funded websites and publications are 
intended to provide credit to USAID for its work and technical leadership. When 
our information is co-mingled with other sites, this leadership gets lost. As a 
result, LPA recommends stand alone websites as the best solution.  
 When a stand-alone 
website is not feasible, we should encourage partners to import material to the 
site (i.e., pdfs of documents), rather than provide 
links to other sites. However, if this, too, proves impossible, links for 
documents/websites must meet the following criteria: • The material in the 
linked document/website must be focused and germane to the area of FP/RH 
programming being undertaken by the CA managing the host 
site • The intended 
audience of the linked document /website is program managers, policymakers, 
and/or researchers working in health, specifically FP/RH. In addition, the 
GH/PRH funded website/document must be set up so that users who follow a link 
first reach an interim page informing them that they have left the host site. 
The interim page must include a disclaimer. The following language is 
suggested: For documents:  
The author’s views expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect the 
views of the United States Agency for International Development or the United 
States Government. For websites:  
You are leaving the official website of Peeps for Planning.  The 
information provided on the web site in this link does not represent the views 
or positions of the U.S. Agency for International Development or the U.S. 
Government. [Tor's note: after 
discussion, we have combined this arbitrary pair of disclaimers into one single 
disclaimer: "You are leaving the official website of Project Name Here. The 
information provided via this link does not represent the views or positions of 
the U.S. Agency for International Development or the U.S. 
Government."] Furthermore, the CA 
managing the host site and the CTO will be responsible for reviewing the content 
of all links every six months to ensure that they continue to meet the above 
criteria. Issues to 
consider:   IPPF, SIECUS and Advocates for Youth, for examples, have 
numerous quality documents for programming adolescent RH/HIV, which do not 
include mention of abortion, as well as an important manual on integrating GBV 
into FP/RH services.  These documents could be included if we import this 
material to the website.  However, a link, even with the disclaimer, often 
is interpreted as tacit support for an organization’s policies or positions and 
can still get us in trouble with vigilant link followers.  Therefore, not 
having a direct link in these cases would be best, and make routine checking of 
the site much easier.   | 
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            [grhits] header and subject filtering on Barracuda,
            Jojo Almario, 11/06/2007
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            [grhits] Typo3 Link Disclaimers,
            Tor de Vries, 11/28/2007
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            Re: [grhits] Typo3 Link Disclaimers,
            Jojo Almario, 11/28/2007
- Re: [grhits] Typo3 Link Disclaimers, Tor de Vries, 11/28/2007
 
 
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            Re: [grhits] Typo3 Link Disclaimers,
            Jojo Almario, 11/28/2007
 
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            [grhits] Typo3 Link Disclaimers,
            Tor de Vries, 11/28/2007
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