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Paths

New here? The wiki is big. Pick the path that matches what you’re trying to do, follow it in order, and you’ll have a working mental model by the end [source: commons-library]. Each step is a real page in the wiki; the sequence is the “why this next” guidance you don’t get from a flat index. The path ordering follows Momentum Community’s alignment discipline — every step checks that the strategy, structure, narrative and tactics fit before the campaign tries to escalate [source: momentum-community].

The paths

  • Start your first campaign — for first-time organisers who have a problem they care about and want to build a campaign plan from scratch. Seven pages: power-mapping → theory-of-change → audience-segmentation → coalition-building → campaign-planning → evaluation → after-action-review.

  • Nonviolent Action 101 — for organisers planning direct action: the foundations of civil resistance, the tactical repertoire, escalation, and the narrative craft that surrounds it.

  • Digital campaigning — for the online side of a campaign: petitions, civic-tech, distributed organising, and the data-protection and digital-security craft that every digital campaign needs.

  • Community organising — for the people-side of an existing or growing campaign: coalition building, leadership development, volunteer management, and public narrative.

  • Lobbying and advocacy — for campaigns that target institutions: legal frameworks, citizen and group lobbying, charity-political-activity rules, and the strategy of policy influence.

  • Crisis communications — for comms leads facing a fast-moving news cycle. Four pages: framing-and-narrative → targeting-and-messaging → media-advocacy → security-culture.

  • Plan a blockade — for organisers planning a nonviolent blockade. Five pages: blockades → risk-register → protest-marshals → de-escalation → after-action-review.

  • Fundraising for beginners — for first-time campaign treasurers. Three pages plus a report-back practice: budget-and-controlling → grassroots-fundraising → financial-controlling → reporting (alongside evaluation + governance).

How paths work

  • Each path is an ordered sequence. The pages are listed in the order you’re meant to read them; each step explains why it comes next.
  • Pages on the path carry a nav block. When you’re on a page that belongs to a path, you’ll see a “Part of the path: ◀ prev · next ▶” block at the top so you can move through the sequence without losing your place.
  • You can jump between paths. They’re not silos — most pages sit on more than one journey. A page on power-mapping, for example, is the first step of Start your first campaign and shows up under Strategy & power-building in the standard library.
  • Translations follow the same paths. The path pages are bilingual-ready and get translated into German, French and Spanish by the same pipeline that translates the rest of the wiki.

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