A Collaborative Organizing Guide

People who want to change the world need advice on the most effective way to do this.

Generally books that try to give you most of what you need to do activism are called "Organizing Guides" or "Activism Handbooks".

In my mind, the two leading organizing guides are that by the War Resister's League and Midwest Academy's one. SEAC also has a good guide.

However, none of these guides come close to providing the level of detail that would reflect the variety of experiences of thousands of social movement activists. I think the solution is to develop a new online collaboratively written set of resources that would be sorted and edited to provide a level of quality worthy of a good Organizing Guide.

In the future, I want to develop tools that will facilitate collaborative production of materials. However, in the mean time, I wonder if Wikipedia could be modified AND adequately publicized as a platform for creating this online Organizing Guide?

Also, it shouldn't just be online. Once the text is well-developed, it should definitely be printed and mass-distributed in progressive bookstores and sold over the internet.

There could be different flavours of the guide. For instance, you could have more/less radical versions of it. Or it could be tailored to a certain issue or constituency. Perhaps it might even be possible to allow users to answer several questions to customize their guide, and then dynamically generate a PDF (you can do this with PHP) based on their preferences. You could do this by having options for sections (for instance a radical section on tactics might focus more on direct action, whereas a moderate section would include more about lobbying). It could also be translated into different languages. In addition, there could be different layout styles.

I suspect this starts to go beyond the capabilities of Wikipedia, but these things wouldn't be hard to do.