Landrace.Wiki:About

Landrace.Wiki is a free, collaboratively edited reference for landrace cannabis and the cultures, ecologies, and farming systems that sustain it.

It is a place to document real plants in real places, with enough context that others can understand what they are, where they came from, and what is happening to them.

Landrace crisis

Traditional landrace cannabis populations are being displaced and erased by prohibition, eradication campaigns, commercial hybrids, land-use change and climate stress. In many regions, the plants, the know-how around them and the languages used to describe them are disappearing together.

These populations carry genetic traits, chemical profiles and cultural histories that cannot be reconstructed once they are gone. Landrace.Wiki exists to make them visible, traceable and harder to quietly lose.

What Landrace.Wiki does

Landrace.Wiki focuses on field-documented, place-based populations rather than marketing categories or strain names.

The project:

• Describes landrace cannabis populations within a clear geographic and cultural hierarchy (Gene Pool → Regional Complex → Growing Region → Growing Area → Appellation → Field → Accession).
• Treats the accession as the basic unit of documentation, tying plants to time, place, and collection context.
• Records cultivation practices, local names, processing methods, and uses alongside botanical and environmental information.
• Tracks conservation status and threats at region, area, appellation, field, and accession levels where data is available.
• Links out to primary sources, field reports, and analytical work so readers can see where information comes from.

Documentation standards

Landrace.Wiki is built to be useful to people who care about rigor at different depths:

• **Accessible overviews** for readers who are new to landrace cannabis and want clear, non-sensational explanations.
• **Practical detail** for farmers and growers: climate and elevation ranges, agronomic notes, and cultivation reports.
• **Technical data** for researchers: structured fields for environment, morphology, chemotype, and conservation status, with citations where available.

Accession and region pages use standardized forms based on the integrated accession documentation template. Tier 1 fields capture the minimum information needed for conservation-grade records; additional tiers allow more detailed scientific, cultural, and environmental data to be added as it is collected.

Speculation, anecdote, and marketing claims are kept separate from evidence-based entries, or clearly labeled as such.

Who we are

Landrace.Wiki is maintained by the Zomia Collective together with field researchers, traditional cultivators, conservationists, and growers.

The project is grounded in:

• Multi-year fieldwork in parts of Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Central Asia.
• Ongoing relationships with traditional farming communities and resin-making regions.
• Collaboration with scientists, archivists, and conservation practitioners.
• Practical seed preservation work in both in situ and ex situ settings.

Stewardship of the site sits with Zomia Collective, but the goal is a shared reference that any serious contributor can help build.

How to contribute

Landrace.Wiki depends on contributions from:

• Field researchers documenting new accessions and growing areas.
• Traditional cultivators and local experts sharing knowledge and material.
• Scientists and analysts adding data on chemistry, genetics, environment, and conservation.
• Experienced growers writing cultivation reports based on real cycles.
• Photographers documenting plants, fields, and landscapes.

To get started:

1. Create an account.
2. Read the project’s documentation guidelines and legal notes.
3. If you are working from a field collection, start with an accession form and link it to the relevant field, appellation, and region.
4. If you are adding contextual knowledge (history, language, cultivation practice), edit or create the relevant concept or region pages and cite your sources where possible.

If you are unsure where a contribution belongs in the hierarchy, you can describe what you have and ask for help on the talk pages.

Technical foundation

Landrace.Wiki is built entirely on free and open-source software:

• **Platform:** MediaWiki 1.44 with Semantic MediaWiki 6.0.1 and PageForms.
• **Data model:** Pages represent regions, fields, and accessions; semantic properties attach structured data that can be queried and reused.
• **Views:** Templates and semantic queries generate maps, tables, and statistics using native MediaWiki and SemanticMediaWiki tools, keeping the infrastructure simple and portable.

This stack is chosen so the project can be mirrored, forked, or rebuilt if needed, and so contributors can inspect how pages and queries work.

Contact

For questions about collaboration, field partnerships, or using Landrace.Wiki in research or teaching, contact the Zomia Collective via their website or the project’s community channels.

Acknowledgments

Landrace.Wiki exists because of traditional farming communities who have maintained these plants over generations and because of the fieldworkers, researchers, growers and supporters who choose to document and conserve them rather than let them quietly disappear.