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Wikipedia (English)

Summary

English Wikipedia is the English-language edition of the free, collaboratively edited online encyclopedia. It is one of the most-cited reference works in the world, with tens of millions of articles maintained by volunteer editors under a transparent editorial process.

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This wiki uses English Wikipedia as a secondary source. Where a concept has a stable, widely accepted definition (e.g. “political campaign”, “civil resistance”, “PESTLE”), we cite Wikipedia for that canonical framing rather than re-deriving the definition from scratch. Wikipedia’s own article on a topic is a tertiary source (a summary of the literature), but in a campaign wiki we are citing the consensus framing, which is a primary claim of interest to our readers.

Wikipedia is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0). All text quoted or closely paraphrased from Wikipedia must be attributed to the original article, list the article’s revision history, and remain under the same CC BY-SA license. The recommended attribution form is:

Text adapted from “[Article title],” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, [URL]. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

We never cite Wikipedia for factual claims about a current campaign, organisation, or event — those must come from a primary source (the organiser’s own statement, an investigative outlet, court filings, etc.). Wikipedia is used only for definitional, historical, or methodological framing where independent editorial oversight already exists.

When Wikipedia disagrees with a primary source we have, the primary source wins and the discrepancy is flagged in the page’s ## Open Questions. Pages grounded on Wikipedia alone carry status: emerging rather than established, because encyclopaedic framing is not the same as original research.

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Use it for

  • Orienting readers on what a term means before they read the wiki’s own analysis.
  • Historical timelines and cross-referencing dates.
  • Translating concepts consistently across the EN/DE/FR/ES/IT editions.

Open Questions

  • Which specific Wikipedia articles are cited from which wiki pages (audit pending).