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Master index of every article in the wiki. Pages are also listed by category in Wiki/by-category.md, by language in Wiki/by-language.md, and by curation tier in Wiki/by-tier.md. For a guided start, see start-here.

Article	Status	Tier	Languages	Categories	Description
FACTS	stub		EN	strategy
PUBLISHING	stub		EN	digital	Notes for shipping the Campaigning Wiki to each target platform — Obsidian/Quartz, MediaWiki, Notion — and what to adjus
affinity-groups	emerging		EN, Multi	organizing, tactics	A small (5–15), trusted group that organises and acts together — the basic unit of anarchist and movement-organising pra
after-action-review	emerging		EN	research, training	An After Action Review (AAR) is a short, structured team debrief built around four questions — *What did we expect? What
audience-segmentation	emerging		EN	strategy, digital	Audience segmentation splits the campaign’s full audience into named groups — target, decision-maker, base, persuadable,
beautiful-trouble-toolbox	emerging	Verify-then-use	Multi	tactics	Beautiful Trouble’s online toolbox — short modules on specific creative-activism tactics (Guerrilla Projection, Light Br
betterevaluation	emerging	Core	EN	strategy, research	BetterEvaluation is a global community platform for evaluation knowledge, covering methods, approaches, and themes for p
bond-uk	emerging	Core	EN	strategy, research, organizing	Bond is the UK network for NGOs and civil society organisations working in international development. Its resources sect
boycotts-and-strikes	emerging		EN	tactics, organizing	The two most-used economic noncooperation methods — consumer/worker withdrawal of participation or purchase, in support
budget-and-controlling	emerging		EN	strategy, organizing	Budget and controlling is the discipline of linking money, people-time and other resources to the campaign’s objectives
buergerbegehren	emerging		DE	legal	The German Bürgerbegehren (popular initiative) — a formal, legally regulated procedure by which citizens can compel a
campaign-planning	emerging		EN	strategy	Campaign planning is the work of converting a theory of change into an executable arc — sequenced phases, named objectiv
campaign-project-management	emerging		EN	strategy, organizing	Campaign project management is the day-to-day operating system: workstreams, roles, milestones, dependencies, change con
campaigns-vs-movements	emerging		EN	strategy	A campaign has a specific target, demand and timeline; a movement is the broader, durable infrastructure that runs many
case-studies	stub		EN	case-studies	The case-studies category covers worked examples of past and present campaigns — annotated wins, losses, and lessons
[[otpor-milosevic	case-studies/otpor-milosevic]]	emerging		EN	case-study, nonviolent-action, strategie
center-for-theory-of-change	emerging	Core	EN	strategy, research	The Center for Theory of Change is a nonprofit organization that promotes quality standards and best practices for devel
charity-political-activity	emerging		EN, DE, FR, ES	legal	The rules — varying by jurisdiction — that govern how much political activity a registered charity (or its equivalent) m
citizen-lobbying	emerging		EN, FR, ES	legal, strategy	The practice of organised constituents meeting with elected officials to influence their positions — the everyday advoca
civic-tech	emerging		EN, Multi	digital	Civic technology — the design and use of digital tools (open data, participatory platforms, organising apps, transparenc
civil-resistance	emerging		EN, Multi	strategy, tactics	The strategic use of nonviolent mass action to challenge a power-holder — distinguished from one-off protests by its sus
civil-resistance-2-0	emerging	Verify-then-use	EN	tactics, digital	Mary Joyce and Patrick Meier’s crowdsourced upgrade of Sharp’s 198 methods for the digital age.
coalition-building	emerging		EN, FR, ES	strategy, organizing	The deliberate work of bringing distinct organisations and constituencies together behind a shared campaign demand — the
common-cause-foundation	emerging	Core	EN, ES	strategy, research	Common Cause Foundation is a nonprofit that works to champion human values — particularly intrinsic values like communit
constructive-programme	emerging		EN	strategy, organizing	The Gandhian idea that a movement must build the alternative society it wants alongside its resistance to the existing
critical-path	emerging		EN	strategy	The timeline / critical path makes the campaign plan visible on a calendar: which tasks come first, which depend on whic
cross-sector-coalitions	emerging		EN, Multi	organizing, strategy	The practice of building a coalition that crosses traditional sectoral boundaries — labour, environment, human rights, f
data-protection-gdpr	emerging		EN, DE, FR, ES	legal, digital	The general data-protection obligations under the EU’s GDPR (and the UK GDPR / Swiss FADP) that affect how campaigns col
digital	stub		EN	digital	The digital category covers digital campaigning tools, civic technology, and digital security for activists.
digital-security	emerging		EN, Multi	digital	The practice and pedagogy of protecting activists, their data, devices, communications and organisations from digital su
dilemma-actions	emerging		EN, Multi	tactics	A dilemma action is a tactical action designed so that every response by the target is costly to the target — the camp
distributed-organizing	emerging		EN	organizing, digital	TBD — distil a 2-4 sentence summary from Body.
electoral-system-design	emerging		EN, Multi	research, strategy	Comparative electoral-system design — the choices a democracy makes about how votes translate into seats (plurality, PR,
escalation	established		EN	tactics	The deliberate sequencing of tactics from low-cost/high-volume to high-cost/high-risk, so each step raises the cost of t
evaluation	emerging		EN	strategy, research	Evaluation is the discipline of asking, at planned moments, *did the campaign do what it set out to do, and what does th
financial-controlling	emerging		EN	strategy	Financial controlling is the discipline of tracking actuals against the budget as the campaign runs, so surprises are ca
force-field-analysis	emerging		EN	strategy	Force-field analysis (Lewin) tallies the driving forces pushing toward a change against the restraining forces holdi
frameworks-institute	emerging	Core	EN	strategy, research	FrameWorks Institute is a nonprofit communications research organization that studies public mindsets and produces evide
framing-and-narrative	emerging		EN	strategy, digital	TBD — distil a 2-4 sentence summary from Body.
governance	emerging		EN	strategy, organizing	Campaign governance is the discipline of stating in advance who decides what — strategy shifts, public statements, budge
grassroots-fundraising	emerging		EN, Multi	organizing, digital	The practice of funding a campaign from many small individual donations rather than a few large ones — the financial bac
incidencia-politica	emerging		ES	legal, strategy	Incidencia política (political advocacy / policy influence) — the Spanish-language umbrella term for organised citizen
kanban-for-campaigns	emerging		EN	training, strategy	Kanban — visible To do · Doing · Done columns on a board, with a limit on work-in-progress — is the lightweight flow-c
kpis-and-dashboards	emerging		EN	strategy, research	KPIs and dashboards turn the campaign’s evaluation plan into a small, owner-assigned set of indicators that the team rea
labour-and-union-campaigning	emerging		EN	organizing, tactics	The practice of organising workers to win improvements through collective action — strikes, contract campaigns, sectoral
leadership-development	established		EN	organizing, training	TBD — distil a 2-4 sentence summary from Body.
mel-framework	emerging		EN	research	A Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) framework decides what to measure at each level of the campaign’s results ch
methods-of-nonviolent-action	emerging		EN, Multi	tactics	The canonical taxonomy of nonviolent action — Gene Sharp’s 198 methods, organised into three categories: nonviolent prot
noncooperation	emerging		EN	tactics	The middle tier of Sharp’s taxonomy (methods 55–157) — withholding consent, participation, or resources from a target’s
nonviolent-direct-action	emerging		EN	tactics	TBD — distil a 2-4 sentence summary from Body.
one-to-ones	established		EN	organizing	TBD — distil a 2-4 sentence summary from Body.
organizing	stub		EN	organizing	The organizing category covers the relational methods of building a base — one-to-ones, leadership development, dist
party-building	emerging		EN, Multi	organizing, strategy	The long-horizon work of building and maintaining a political party — the durable infrastructure that runs electoral cam
petitions-and-e-campaigning	established		EN	digital	TBD — distil a 2-4 sentence summary from Body.
pillars-of-support	established		EN	strategy, tactics	TBD — distil a 2-4 sentence summary from Body.
power-and-relational-outcomes	emerging		EN	research, strategy	Power and relational outcomes are the things that outlast the campaign — new leaders developed, relationships and trust
power-mapping	established		EN	strategy	TBD — distil a 2-4 sentence summary from Body.
problem-tree	emerging		EN	strategy	A problem tree is a causal diagram with the core problem as the trunk, its causes as roots, and its effects as bra
protest-law-de	emerging		DE	legal	The patchwork of German federal and state laws governing public assembly, demonstration, and protest — the legal baselin
protest-law-es	emerging		ES	legal	The Spanish and Latin American legal regimes governing protest, with attention to Spain’s *Ley Orgánica de Seguridad Ciu
protest-law-fr	emerging		FR	legal	The French legal regime governing public demonstration — based on the 1881 liberté de réunion framework and the 1995 L
public-narrative	emerging		EN	organizing, training	TBD — distil a 2-4 sentence summary from Body.
research-methods	emerging		EN	research, strategy	The set of methods a campaign uses before launch — and during — to ground its analysis in evidence: desk research, stake
smart-goals	emerging		EN	strategy	SMART goals force a vague campaign ambition (“change policy”, “build power”) into a single, time-stamped, measurable sen
spectrum-of-allies	established		EN	strategy	TBD — distil a 2-4 sentence summary from Body.
stakeholder-analysis	emerging		EN	strategy, organizing	Stakeholder analysis names every actor who can affect or is affected by the campaign, scores them on power, interest and
start-here	stub		EN	strategy, organizing, digital, tactics, training, research, legal, case-studies	A one-screen entry point to the wiki for newcomers — what the wiki is,
strategy	stub		EN	strategy	The strategy category covers the analytical and planning methods that sit above any single tactic — power mapping, t
structure-tests	established		EN	tactics	TBD — distil a 2-4 sentence summary from Body.
swot-analysis	emerging		EN	strategy	SWOT is the structured four-quadrant scan of internal Strengths/Weaknesses against external Opportunities/Threats. It is
tactics	stub		EN	tactics	The tactics category covers the named actions a campaign can take — Sharp’s 198 methods, structure tests, dilemma ac
the-campaign-cycle	emerging		EN	strategy	TBD — distil a 2-4 sentence summary from Body.
the-tactic-star	emerging		EN	tactics, strategy	A Commons Library planning tool — a five-pointed star (goals, resources, audience, timing, risk) for choosing and assess
theory-of-change	emerging		EN	strategy	A theory of change is the explicit, testable if/then chain from activities to outcomes to long-term impact, with every “
three-and-a-half-percent-rule	emerging		EN	strategy, research	The empirical finding (Chenoweth & Stephan, Why Civil Resistance Works) that no movement failing to mobilise at least
volunteer-management	emerging		EN, Multi	organizing, training	The practice of recruiting, training, retaining, and progressively giving responsibility to volunteers — the operating s
voter-contact-and-gotv	emerging		EN	tactics, organizing	The set of methods campaigns use to reach individual voters — door-knocking, phone-banking, peer-to-peer texting, relati
waging-nonviolence	emerging	Verify-then-use	EN	case-studies, research	A reporting project covering nonviolent movements worldwide — articles are CC-licensed and reusable with attribution.