The feed of changes that might need special attention at /feeds/needs-review.xml includes any edits to candidate profiles where the candidate has been marked as particularly liable to vandalism. At the moment this list of candidates is stored as a Django setting, which means that it can only be changed by developers, and requires a redeploy to take effect. For example, this setting (PEOPLE_LIABLE_TO_VANDALISM) is set for the UK here:
The feed of changes that might need special attention at
/feeds/needs-review.xml
includes any edits to candidate profiles where the candidate has been marked as particularly liable to vandalism. At the moment this list of candidates is stored as a Django setting, which means that it can only be changed by developers, and requires a redeploy to take effect. For example, this setting (PEOPLE_LIABLE_TO_VANDALISM
) is set for the UK here:https://github.com/mysociety/yournextrepresentative/blob/5a057d6320552d6ac8056b4653f5f88228624228/elections/uk/settings.py#L8-L75
Instead, this data should be maintained in the database, and changes to it should be made via the site.