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Welcome to the Campaigning Wiki — a transnational knowledge base on campaigning craft. Pick what you came for; the wiki is designed so every page is reachable in ≤2 clicks from here [source: commons-library].

What are you looking for?

The three pillars

  1. Strategy & power-building — power mapping, theory of change, spectrum of allies.
  2. Organizing & people-power — 1:1s, distributed organizing, leadership development.
  3. Tactics & creative action — Sharp’s 198 methods, escalation, nonviolent direct action [source: this-is-an-uprising].

And four growing areas

  1. Digital & civic tech — petitions, distributed organizing, civic-tech platforms.
  2. Training & facilitation — workshop design, facilitation, skill-building.
  3. Legal & lobbying — Bürgerbegehren, incidencia política, GDPR, protest law.
  4. Research & MEL — evaluation, outcome harvesting, evidence for campaigns.

These four are thinner than the pillars. That is on purpose and visible on the home page — it is where a contribution makes the most difference.

Newcomer? The minimum viable literacy in 4 pages:

  1. power-mapping — diagnose the landscape
  2. theory-of-change — name the change
  3. the-campaign-cycle — sequence the work
  4. evaluation — learn from each cycle

The “nonviolent resistance” track is grounded in Chenoweth & Stephan’s empirical finding that civil-resistance campaigns have historically outperformed violent insurgencies on success rates [source: why-civil-resistance-works]. Then jump into case-studies to see the methods in action.

Browse by facet

  • by-category — concept methods + sources + examples, annotated
  • by-tier — curation tier (Core / Verify-then-use / Reference / Deprioritize)
  • by-language — EN / DE / FR / ES / Multi
  • all-articles — full master table

Open questions

QUESTIONS — gaps, missing sources, things to verify before the next publish.

How to use this wiki

Every factual claim carries a [source: <slug>] marker so you can trace any paragraph back to the curated source it came from. The wiki is method/technique, not advocacy — political lean is recorded as frontmatter metadata, not embedded in the prose.

Status legend

  • stub — concept registered; summary + source pointers only.
  • emerging — partial distillation; method content present, not yet complete.
  • established — distilled, sourced, cross-linked, reviewed.

Tier legend

  • Core — high relevance + high validity; featured prominently.
  • Verify-then-use — high relevance, mid/low validity; check liveness.
  • Reference — high validity, low/mid relevance; background.
  • Deprioritize — low relevance AND low validity; drop or archive.

FAQ

What is the Start Here page?

The Start Here page is the Campaigning Wiki’s landing page — a transnational knowledge base on campaigning craft designed so every page is reachable in ≤2 clicks from here [source: commons-library]. It welcomes newcomers and lets them pick what they came for: a strategy or method, real examples, sources, or a version in their language.

How is the wiki organised?

Around three pillars that carry most of the craft: Strategy & power-building — power mapping, theory of change, spectrum of allies. Organizing & people-power — 1:1s, distributed organizing, leadership development. Tactics & creative action — Sharp’s 198 methods, escalation, nonviolent direct action [source: this-is-an-uprising]. Alongside them sit four smaller, growing areas: Digital & civic tech (petitions, civic-tech platforms), Training & facilitation (workshop design, skill-building), Legal & lobbying (Bürgerbegehren, incidencia política, GDPR, protest law) and Research & MEL (evaluation and evidence). Worked case studies sit across all of them.

Newcomers should follow a four-page minimum viable literacy sequence: power-mapping (diagnose the landscape), theory-of-change (name the change), the-campaign-cycle (sequence the work), and evaluation (learn from each cycle). The nonviolent-resistance track is grounded in Chenoweth and Stephan’s empirical finding that civil-resistance campaigns have historically outperformed violent insurgencies on success rates [source: why-civil-resistance-works]. Then jump into case-studies to see the methods in action.

How does the wiki mark up sources?

Every factual claim carries a [source: <slug>] marker so the reader can trace any paragraph back to the curated source it came from. The wiki is method/technique, not advocacy — political lean is recorded as frontmatter metadata, not embedded in the prose. The build and contribute instructions are at PUBLISHING, README, and CONVENTIONS. The status legend marks pages as stub, emerging, or established; the tier legend marks Core, Verify-then-use, Reference, or Deprioritize.