Reader's Guide Ideas

My understanding is that we are making a collaborative encyclopedia entry for Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that people create. If this is the reader’s guide that has been accessed 1.5 million times in two years, then I am astounded, and see no reason why we can’t create one with millions more viewers. This reader’s guide includes a plotline, list of characters, “influences” – a section which I don’t quite understand – and awards. We can expand on this for our book, but we also must be mindful that everyone reads this, and therefore abide by the five pillars of Wikipedia, especially the one about not including our point of view, which will be hard because the debate over this topic is so heated. Here’s what I think should be included right off the bat (this is assuming an ideal article with no time constraints), and I’m open to suggestions:

-Instead of a plotline, we should include a timeline of US Immigration and anti-terror policy, especially things like the Patriot Act.

-Because there is no main plotline throughout the book, it would probably make sense to include each individual’s story in subsections of a description of the book itself.

-We could include facts such as the amount of immigrants allowed into the United States each year, the number of people deported, etc.

-We could include an excerpt from Tram Nguyen’s upcoming talk here, but we must be careful to remain objective.

This is all I have so far.