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This page explains the geographic hierarchy on Landrace.Wiki and links to detailed help pages for each type of geographic page.
The hierarchy
Landrace.Wiki organises accessions within a seven-level geographic hierarchy. Each level has its own page type with specific templates and expected content.
From broadest to most specific:
- Gene Pool — the broadest scientific grouping (e.g. South Asian, Southeast Asian). Classification metadata stored on accession and region pages. No standalone pages at present.
- Regional Complex — a grouping within a gene pool (e.g. Mekong Basin, Hindu Kush-Himalayan). Also classification metadata; used on some pages but not a primary navigation level.
- Country — the national level. Country pages serve as entry points and provide legal, cultural, and historical context for cannabis in that country.
- Growing Region — the primary geographic grouping below country level. A region is defined by shared ecology, cultivation tradition, or cultural practices rather than strictly by administrative boundaries.
- Growing Area — a subdivision of a growing region, usually corresponding to one or more districts. Area pages list the accessions documented within them.
- Appellation — a named locality within a growing area, often corresponding to a village cluster, valley, or microregion. Being built out as documentation expands.
- Field — a specific cultivation site within an appellation. The most granular geographic level before the accession itself.
In practice, most navigation follows: Country → Growing Region → Growing Area → Accession. Gene pools and regional complexes are background classification. Appellations and fields add granularity where detailed fieldwork supports it.
How the levels connect
Every page links to the levels above and below it:
- A country page lists its growing regions.
- A growing region page lists its growing areas and may list accessions directly.
- A growing area page lists its accessions.
- An accession page links back to its field, appellation, growing area, growing region, and country.
These links are set through semantic properties on each page. When you create a new geographic page, linking it correctly to its parent and children is the most important step. The maps, queries, and navigation all depend on these links.
Creating geographic pages
Each page type has its own template, infobox, and expected content structure. See the individual help pages below for specific guidance:
- Help:Country pages — what a country page should contain and how to structure it.
- Help:Growing regions — using Template:Infobox Growing Region and the standard section structure.
- Help:Growing areas — creating area pages within a growing region.
Appellation and field page help will be added as those page types are formalised.
Naming conventions
Geographic pages use their plain name as the page title: India, North Bengal Plains, Koch Bihar, Jalpaiguri. No namespace prefix, no ID format. Use the most common English-language name for the place, with local-language names recorded in the infobox or lead paragraph.
If a name is shared between different geographic levels (e.g. a district and a growing area with the same name), the growing area page takes the plain name and any disambiguation is handled case by case.
Linking accessions to geographic pages
When you document an accession, you link it to its country, growing region, and growing area using the corresponding template fields. These links must be plain page titles (e.g. India, not [[India]]) because the templates handle wiki linking internally.
If a growing region or growing area page does not exist yet for the location you are documenting, you can still enter the name. The accession page will display a red link, which signals that a geographic page needs to be created. See the relevant help page above for how to create it.
Related pages
- Help:Accessions for understanding accession pages.
- Help:Documenting Accessions for creating a new accession.
- Help:Navigation for finding and browsing pages.
- Landrace.Wiki:Contributing for all contribution paths.