This page was created in the site's editing backend — it is the first page published through it, and it exists partly to document that pipeline in public.
What an edit is
Every piece of editable copy on this site lives in plain files inside the same repository as the code and the data. Editing happens locally, in a form-based admin; saving writes a file, and the file becomes a dated git commit. There is no dashboard that changes the live site directly, on purpose: a change nobody can date is a change nobody can audit.
What publishing is
A pushed edit triggers the same gates the nightly data refresh passes through:
- the full site build must succeed
- the entire test suite must pass — the tests that check the generated sentences against the numbers beside them, the bill copy against the bills' own records, and the promise ledger against its two-review rule
If any check fails, the edit does not publish. The backend makes editing easier; it makes publishing exactly as hard as it was.
What cannot be edited this way
Scores, ranks, the generated rundowns, the methodology, the changelog, and the licence and privacy pages. Those change through code review, because they carry the site's scientific and legal commitments. The methodology describes how the numbers are computed; the changelog records every change to it, dated.
Why say any of this
Because this site's entire argument is that its claims survive checking, and that has to include claims about itself. If what is edited or how it publishes ever changes, this page changes with it — as a dated commit, like everything else.