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This page explains how to send a field report to Landrace.Wiki: an account of a visit to a place where cannabis is grown or where an older source says it was grown.
A field report records what was seen at one place on one date. The report goes on the Talk page of the place's page and can change the place's growing status. Reports matter most for the places listed on Places to check: places that historical sources name as growing cannabis and growing places where no accession has been collected since 2000.
What a report contains
The first four items are required. A report without them cannot be published.
- Name. The name of the person who made the visit. The report is published under that name or under another name the person is publicly known by. A person may also ask for the report to be published without a name.
- Date. The day of the visit, or at least the month and year. The month matters: a field that is bare in March may carry a crop by September.
- Place. The village or the nearest settlement, and the district.
- What was seen. Whether cannabis was growing and roughly how many plants or fields; the stage of growth (seedlings, in flower, harvested); how the plants were grown (in fields, in kitchen gardens, self-sown along paths and field edges). A visit that found no cannabis is also a report.
- What people said. Whether cannabis is grown there; whether growing has stopped, roughly when and why; local names for the plant. The people spoken to are described by their role ("a farmer in the village") and are not named.
- Photographs. Where possible, one of the plants and one of their setting, taken by the sender.
- Field location. A GPS reading or a map pin, where the sender has one.
Where to send a report
Reports are sent by email to contact@landrace.wiki or as a message on the Landrace.Wiki Discord server, which the QR code opens. No wiki account is needed. An editor replies, asks for any missing item and writes the report up.
What happens to a report
- Talk page. The report is written up as a dated note headed "Field visit" with the month and year, on the Talk page of the place's page. The note gives the sender's name where the sender agreed to it, what was seen, what people said and the photographs.
- Growing status. The place's growing status becomes Active when the visit found cannabis growing or people there said it is still grown. It becomes No longer grown when people there said growing has stopped and said roughly when. A visit that saw no cannabis leaves the status unchanged unless someone there said growing had stopped: a single visit can miss a crop because of the season or the spot.
- Last checked. The place's infobox shows the year of the latest recorded visit, whatever the visit found.
- Articles. An article may cite a report, always attributing it to the sender (or to an unnamed field report) and giving the date: "In March 2026 [name] reported cannabis growing in two fields above the village." A report is not used for statements in the wiki's own voice.
Locations and photographs
- A field location is published in the same way as the points on accession pages. The point is moved by about 500 metres before it is written, so that it shows the area and not the field. The exact location is never published. The location of a house or farmstead is not published at all.
- Photographs have their metadata removed before upload, because a phone photograph often stores the exact place where it was taken. See Help:Media and safety.
- A photograph showing the face of a person at work in a field is published only if that person is content to be shown. Otherwise the face is cropped out.
- Photographs are published under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence and credited to the sender, unless the sender names another licence. See Landrace Wiki:Copyrights.
- Growers and the people met on a visit are not named. See Landrace.Wiki:Privacy policy and the safety norms.
What a report is not
- An accession. An accession is cannabis material held somewhere: a seed collection or a pressed herbarium specimen. A report describes a visit. Seed collected on the same visit can become an accession of its own. The accession's page then cites the report.
- A published field report. Field reports that researchers or organisations publish are cited as sources. See Help:Sourcing.
- Seed mixing. Signs that seed from elsewhere has been brought in and crossed with the local plants are recorded on the population's page, with no location finer than the appellation. See Help:Populations.