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This is the main help page for Landrace.Wiki. Find what you need below, or use the FAQ for quick answers to common questions.
Read and explore
- Help:Navigation — how to search, follow links, browse categories, and use special pages.
- Readers' FAQ — common questions about what the wiki contains and how to interpret it.
- Help:Accessions — what accession pages contain and how to read them.
- Help:Geographic pages — how country, region, area, and field pages fit together.
Edit and contribute
- Landrace.Wiki:Contributing — all the ways to help, from quick edits to field documentation.
- Help:Editing basics — text formatting, links, lists, and basic references.
- Help:Formatting and layout — page structure, tables, images, and wiki conventions.
- Help:Sandbox — a safe place to practice editing.
Document accessions
- Help:Documenting Accessions — how to create a new accession page using the accession form.
- Help:Accessions — understanding accession pages: the infobox, tier system, ID format, and conservation priority.
Create geographic pages
- Help:Geographic pages — overview of the seven-level hierarchy and how pages connect.
- Help:Country pages — creating and structuring country pages.
- Help:Growing regions — creating growing region pages.
- Help:Growing areas — creating growing area pages.
Appellations, fields, and administrative subdivision help pages will be added as those page types are formalised.
Encyclopedic pages
- Help:Historical sources — creating pages for historical source documents.
- Help:Concept articles — writing standalone concept articles.
- Help:Organization pages — documenting organisations and institutions.
Community reports
- Help:Smoke reports — submitting smoke reports on landrace varieties.
- Help:Grow reports — submitting grow reports from cultivation experience.
- Help:Field reports — submitting field research reports.
News and research
- Help:News items — submitting news items through the news form.
- Help:Research items — submitting research items through the research form.
- Help:Portals — how the knowledge and news portals are structured.
Sourcing, style, and safety
- Help:Sourcing — how to cite books, articles, and other references.
- Help:Media and safety — photo upload guidelines, EXIF metadata, and farmer protection.
- Landrace.Wiki:Norms — scope, tone, evidence standards, safety, and editorial review.
- Landrace.Wiki:Mission-Statement — what the project is trying to do.
FAQ
- Help:FAQ — the most common questions answered in one place.
- Help:FAQ/Index — index of all topic-specific FAQ pages.
- Readers' FAQ — questions about browsing and understanding the wiki.
Get help
- Landrace.Wiki:Questions — central place to ask questions.
- Landrace.Wiki:Contributing — contribution-related questions and guidance.
- Landrace.Wiki:MediaWiki — technical platform overview and data model discussion.
- Special:RecentChanges — see what has been edited recently.
- Special:SpecialPages — list of all built-in special pages.