Help:Growing regions

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This is a project information page for Landrace.Wiki. It describes the project's standards, processes, or structure. It is not an encyclopaedic article.

This page explains what growing region pages are on Landrace.Wiki, what they should contain, and how to create one.

For an overview of the full geographic hierarchy, see Help:Geographic pages. For the level above, see Help:Country pages. For the level below, see Help:Growing areas.

What is a growing region?

A growing region is the primary geographic grouping below country level. It represents a broad area defined by shared ecology, cultivation tradition, or cultural practices rather than strictly by administrative boundaries. Examples include Western Himalayas, North Bengal Plains, and Northeastern Thailand.

A region page aggregates all the growing areas and accessions documented within it, provides ecological and cultural context for the cultivation that takes place there, and carries a region-level conservation status.

The infobox

Every growing region page uses {{Infobox Growing Region}} at the top. The infobox displays:

• Region name and optional alternate name
• Image with caption
• Map showing all accessions within the region (when show_map = yes)
• Location data: country, provinces/states, coordinates, elevation range, area extent, climate
• Classification: gene pool and regional complex
• Physical geography: primary rivers and mountain ranges
• Conservation status (region-level, IUCN-adapted: Stable, Vulnerable, Endangered, Critical, Extinct, Unknown)

Infobox parameters

Parameter	Description	Example
region_name	Display name (defaults to page title)	Western Himalayas
other_name	Alternate or local name
image	Image filename	Rasol-Grahan-View-01.jpg
image_caption	Caption for image	View of the Parvati Valley in Kullu District
show_map	Set to yes to display accession map	yes
gene_pool	Gene pool (creates a wiki link)	South Asian Gene Pool
regional_complex	Regional complex (creates a wiki link)	Hindu Kush-Himalayan
country	Country or countries, comma-separated	India
provinces	Provinces or states, comma-separated	Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jammu and Kashmir
elevation_range	Elevation range	500–3,500 m
climate	Climate description	Temperate montane
primary_river	Major rivers, comma-separated	Beas River, Tons River, Alaknanda River
primary_mountains	Major mountain ranges, comma-separated	Pir Panjal Range, Dhauladhar Range
area_extent	Approximate area	~50,000 km²
status	Conservation status	Vulnerable
coordinates	Centre-point coordinates (decimal degrees)	32.000000, 77.500000
location	Optional freeform location text (overrides country display)
description	Short description for SEO/metadata	Major Himalayan charas-producing cultivation region

Multi-value fields (country, provinces, primary_river, primary_mountains) should be comma-separated. The template handles wiki-linking automatically via #arraymap.

Standard sections

Growing region pages follow a consistent section structure. The Western Himalayas page is the most fully developed example:

Lead paragraph

A concise overview of the region: where it is, what is grown there, its significance for landrace conservation, and key ecological characteristics.

Geography

Physical geography: terrain, river systems, elevation gradient, how geography shapes cultivation.

Climate

Climate patterns relevant to cannabis cultivation: seasons, rainfall, temperature ranges, microclimates.

Demography

The communities who live in the region: ethnic groups, traditional livelihoods, relationship to cannabis cultivation.

Culture

Cultural context for cannabis in the region: religious practice, folk medicine, material culture (fibre, textiles, footwear), food and drink, social consumption. Subsection as needed. This content distinguishes a growing region page from a bare geographic listing.

Cultivation history

Historical development of cannabis cultivation in the region: pre-prohibition baseline, impact of legal changes, contemporary cultivation economy.

Genetics

What is known about the genetic characteristics of the region's cannabis populations. Often sparse; state this honestly.

Growing areas

A listing of all growing areas within the region, organised by administrative division. Include both prose context and the semantic query:

{{#ask:
 [[Category:Growing Areas]]
 [[Has growing region::{{PAGENAME}}]]
 |mainlabel=Growing Area
 |format=table
 |default=No growing areas documented yet.
}}

Accessions

A semantic query listing all accessions in the region:

{{#ask:
 [[Category:Accessions]]
 [[Has growing region::{{PAGENAME}}]]
 |?Has descriptive name=Name
 |?Has conservation priority=Priority
 |?Has collection date=Collected
 |?Has locality=Locality
 |mainlabel=Accession ID
 |format=table
 |class=wikitable sortable
 |sort=Has collection date
 |order=desc
 |default=No accessions documented yet.
}}

Botanical characteristics, cultivation practices, conservation status, chemical profile

Sections for regional-level botanical observations, traditional and modern cultivation methods, threats and conservation efforts, and any available chemical data. Use subsections (e.g. "Regional Traits," "Geographic Variation," "Traditional Methods," "Modern Methods," "Threats to Landrace Populations," "Conservation Efforts").

Gallery, see also, references

Photo gallery using packed mode, cross-links to related pages, and references using <references />.

Creating a growing region page

1. Use the region's common name as the page title (e.g. Western Himalayas, North Bengal Plains).
2. Copy the boilerplate below into the new page.
3. Fill in the infobox parameters and lead paragraph.
4. Add sections following the standard structure. Leave out sections you cannot populate.
5. The template automatically sets [[Category:Growing Regions]]. Add a sub-regional category if appropriate (e.g. [[Category:South Asian Growing Regions]]).
6. Use <references /> at the bottom.

Boilerplate

Copy and paste the following into a new page:

{{Infobox Growing Region
|region_name = 
|other_name = 
|image = 
|image_caption = 
|show_map = yes
|gene_pool = 
|regional_complex = 
|country = 
|provinces = 
|elevation_range = 
|climate = 
|primary_river = 
|primary_mountains = 
|area_extent = 
|status = 
|coordinates = 
|description = 
}}

The '''{{PAGENAME}}''' is a [[landrace cannabis]] cultivation region in [[Country]]...

== Geography ==

== Climate ==

== Demography ==

== Culture ==

== Cultivation History ==

== Genetics ==

No data at present, further research needed.

== Growing Areas ==

{{#ask:
 [[Category:Growing Areas]]
 [[Has growing region::{{PAGENAME}}]]
 |mainlabel=Growing Area
 |format=table
 |default=No growing areas documented yet.
}}

== Accessions ==

{{#ask:
 [[Category:Accessions]]
 [[Has growing region::{{PAGENAME}}]]
 |?Has descriptive name=Name
 |?Has conservation priority=Priority
 |?Has collection date=Collected
 |?Has locality=Locality
 |mainlabel=Accession ID
 |format=table
 |class=wikitable sortable
 |sort=Has collection date
 |order=desc
 |default=No accessions documented yet.
}}

== Botanical Characteristics ==

=== Regional Traits ===

=== Geographic Variation ===

== Cultivation Practices ==

=== Traditional Methods ===

=== Modern Methods ===

== Conservation Status ==

=== Threats to Landrace Populations ===

=== Conservation Efforts ===

== Chemical Profile ==

== Gallery ==

<gallery mode="packed" heights="200px">
</gallery>

== See Also ==

* [[Growing regions]]
* [[Landrace cannabis]]

== References ==

<references />

Writing standards

• Set show_map = yes so the infobox map renders automatically.
• Use comma-separated values for multi-value fields (countries, provinces, rivers, mountains). The template handles wiki-linking.
• Conservation status uses the IUCN-adapted scale: Stable, Vulnerable, Endangered, Critical, Extinct, Unknown. This is the region-level assessment, separate from accession-level conservation priority (Critical, High, Medium, Low).
• Cite everything. Use {{Section stub}} for sections needing expansion.
• Do not use em dashes. Use commas, colons, semicolons, or periods.
• Use <references /> not {{Reflist}}.

Related pages

• Help:Geographic pages for the full geographic hierarchy.
• Help:Country pages for the level above.
• Help:Growing areas for the level below.
• Help:Accessions for understanding accession pages.
• Help:Sourcing for citation formatting.
• Landrace.Wiki:Norms for project-wide standards.