Full Fact is a fact checking organisation. This means we fight bad information by checking claims made by politicians, personalities, media outlets and the general public in order to reduce harm and create good information environments. Essentially this means we publish a lot of content on our website - around 10,000 fact checks. In 2025 we transitioned CMS from Django Admin to Wagtail.

This talk will go through some of the limitations of Django Admin and how features in Wagtail provided solutions to them. Attendees will learn:
- How Wagtail helps websites with large content databases and a fast turnaround for editorial output.
- How Snippets help structure websites and provide better user journeys whilst helping website owners manage content and processes robustly.

Structure of the talk:

Introduction to Full Fact. What is fact checking and what website requirements are there specific to a fact checking organisation? We will talk about:
- ClaimReview meta data
- Claim sightings and post-fact check corrections
- Transparency of process

Limitations of Django Admin including:
- Publishing bottlenecks in publishing non-standard content
- User management
- Development bottlenecks

Solutions in Wagtail including:
- Streamfield blocks for greater flexibility in non-standard content creation. We can give examples of how we built some of these UI components from our Bootstrap pattern library.
- User management and moderation processes
- How Snippets better refine internal processes and repurpose website content for greater visibility and user journeys for claim sightings and transparency of our own article updates and corrections.