Welcome to the Campaigning Wiki — a transnational knowledge base on campaigning craft: advocacy, electoral, and community/union organising. It is built in plain Markdown with Obsidian-style wikilinks, licensed under Creative Commons where reusable, and following the source → distilled article pattern: only the Wiki/ folder publishes, raw material stays private in RAW/.

The four pillars

1. Strategy & power-building — power mapping, theory of change, spectrum of allies, the campaign cycle.
2. Tactics & creative action — Sharp’s 198 methods, escalation, nonviolent direct action, structure tests, dilemma actions.
3. Digital & civic tech — petitions, distributed organizing, civic-tech platforms, digital security.
4. Regulation, lobbying & legal — Bürgerbegehren, incidencia política, GDPR, charity political-activity rules, protest law.

How to navigate

• Newcomer? Start with power-mapping and the-campaign-cycle.
• Browse by topic: by-category · by pillar: strategy · organizing · digital · tactics · training · research · legal · case-studies.
• Thinkers roster: the named authors and theorists behind the methods live in Wiki/thinkers/ — cross-reference-first pages that wire each thinker (Alinsky, Ganz, Sharp, Freire, Lakoff, McAlevey, Moyer, Lakey, Gandhi, Boyd and others, including the conservative organisers for cross-aisle balance) to the concept pages and the source that covers them. Start with thinkers/gene-sharp or thinkers/saul-alinsky.
• Planning, management & evaluation spine: the wiki’s analytical and operating-system pages form a lifecycle — diagnose (pestle-scan, swot-analysis, problem-tree, force-field-analysis, stakeholder-analysis, power-mapping) → strategy & goals (strategy-chart, theory-of-change, smart-goals, okrs) → plan (campaign-planning, logframe, work-breakdown-structure, critical-path) → manage (the team/time/risk layer: campaign-project-management, raci, kanban-for-campaigns, governance, risk-management) → resource (resource-mapping, budget-and-controlling, financial-controlling, grassroots-fundraising) → evaluate & learn (mel-framework, evaluation, kpis-and-dashboards, contribution-analysis, outcome-harvesting-msc, after-action-review, power-and-relational-outcomes).
• Browse by language: by-language (EN · DE · FR · ES · Multi).
• Curation tiers: by-tier (Core / Verify-then-use / Reference / Deprioritize). ⭐ in by-category marks the recommended Core source per category.
• Full index: all-articles.
• Open questions: QUESTIONS — gaps, missing sources, things to verify before next publish. the wiki is built from, with verified ISBNs and section mapping.

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 before relying.
• Reference — high validity, low/mid relevance; background or data.
• Deprioritize — low relevance AND low validity; drop or archive.

How to use this wiki

• Feedback? Submit feedback — corrections, source suggestions, or general comments are welcome.

The wiki is deliberately method/technique, not advocacy. Where an exemplar organisation has a clear political lean, that is recorded as orientation metadata in the source’s YAML — the prose itself describes how it is done, not whether you should do it. This mirrors the neutrality note in the source list.

For publishing instructions see PUBLISHING. For the conventions governing this wiki, see CONVENTIONS.md. For the distillation workflow, see the README.

Summary

A one-screen entry point to the wiki for newcomers — what the wiki is, the four pillars, the navigation hubs, and the status + tier legends.

Body

See the prose above — start-here is a landing page; the substantive material lives in the linked concept pages and source pages.

Use it for

Onboarding a new reader to the wiki in under one screen.

Related

• PUBLISHING
• all-articles
• by-tier
• by-category
• by-language
• QUESTIONS
• See also: CONVENTIONS.md and README.md.

Open Questions

• None — landing-page content is fixed.