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This page explains the geographic ladder on Landrace.Wiki: the levels that place pages and accessions are arranged on, what each level means here, and where to find help for each type of place page.
The ladder
Every accession and every place page sits somewhere on one ladder. From the broadest level to the most specific:
| Level | What it is | Pages |
|---|---|---|
| Gene pool | The broadest grouping of cannabis populations | None: a value stored on place pages |
| Regional complex | A grouping within a gene pool, named after a large physical region | None: a value stored on place pages, linked to an article on the region where one exists |
| Growing region | The main grouping below country level | Growing region pages |
| Growing area | A part of a growing region, usually a district or valley | Growing area pages |
| Locality | A settlement within a growing area | Locality pages |
| Appellation | A named cultivation locality within a growing area | Appellation pages |
The two top levels are classification: they say which large grouping a place belongs to, and no page is created for them. The levels from growing region down are places, and each has its own page type and infobox. Countries, and the states, provinces and districts within them, form a separate administrative layer alongside the ladder.
In practice most navigation runs from a country to its growing regions, then to growing areas and their accessions. Localities and appellations add detail where fieldwork or a collection documents cultivation at that scale.
Gene pool
A gene pool is the broadest grouping on the ladder: the large regional body of cannabis populations that a place's plants are taken to belong to, such as the South Asian or the Southeast Asian gene pool. It is recorded in the gene_pool field of the growing region, growing area, locality and appellation infoboxes, and on some accessions. There are no gene pool pages. The concept itself is the subject of the article gene pool.
Regional complex
A regional complex is a grouping within a gene pool, named after the large physical region it covers: a mountain system, a plateau or a river basin. Examples in use are the Hindu Kush Himalaya, the Mekong Basin and the Khorat Plateau. It is recorded in the regional_complex field of the same infoboxes, and there are no regional complex pages. Where the region has an article, the value leads to it: the value Hindu Kush-Himalayan leads to the article Hindu Kush Himalaya. The Himalayas are not used as a regional complex: the range lies within the Hindu Kush Himalaya.
Growing region
A growing region is the main geographic grouping below country level. It is defined by shared ecology, cultivation tradition or cultural practice rather than strictly by administrative boundaries. Examples are Western Himalayas, North Bengal Plains and Northeastern Thailand. A region page gathers the growing areas and accessions within it and gives the ecological and cultural setting of the cultivation there. Region pages use {{Infobox Growing Region}} and are listed in Category:Growing Regions. See Help:Growing regions for how to create one.
Growing area
A growing area is a part of a growing region, usually one or more districts or a valley, such as Malana Valley or Ketama. An area page lists the accessions documented within it. Area pages use {{Infobox Growing Area}} and are listed in Category:Growing Areas. See Help:Growing areas.
Locality
A locality is a settlement within a growing area: a village, a hamlet, a seasonal settlement or a town. Accessions point to it through their locality field, and the maps and accession counts read that link. Locality pages use {{Infobox Locality}} and are listed in Category:Localities.
Appellation
An appellation is a named cultivation locality within a growing area: a village and its fields, a cluster of villages, a valley or a smaller area whose cannabis is identified with the place. Where the name is shared with a settlement or a valley, the appellation page takes the suffix (appellation), as in Malana (appellation). An appellation can sit within a larger one through the parent_appellation field. Appellation pages use {{Infobox Appellation}} and are listed in Category:Appellations.
On Landrace.Wiki an appellation is a unit for describing where cannabis is grown. It does not mean that the name is protected by law as an appellation of origin. For legal appellations of origin and their use for cannabis, see Appellation.
The ladder ends at the appellation. Individual fields are not given pages.
Countries and administrative subdivisions
Country pages are the entry points for each country. They give the legal, cultural and historical setting of cannabis there and list the country's growing regions. They use {{Infobox Country}}; see Help:Country pages.
States, provinces, districts and other administrative units have pages of their own, with {{Infobox Admin Subdivision}}, listed in Category:Admin Subdivisions. They form a separate layer: a growing region or growing area can cross administrative boundaries, and an accession records both its place on the ladder and its administrative units.
How the levels connect
Every place 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 and, where it has them, its appellations.
- An accession page links back to its locality or appellation, growing area, growing region and country.
These links are set through semantic properties on each page. When you create a new place page, linking it correctly to the levels above it is the most important step: the maps, queries and navigation all depend on these links.
Creating geographic pages
Each page type has its own infobox and expected content. See:
- Help:Country pages for country pages.
- Help:Growing regions for growing region pages and
{{Infobox Growing Region}}. - Help:Growing areas for growing area pages.
Help for locality and appellation pages will be added; until then the template documentation of {{Infobox Locality}} and {{Infobox Appellation}} describes their fields.
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 the lead paragraph.
If a name is shared between levels (a district and a growing area with the same name, for example), the growing area page takes the plain name and other pages are disambiguated case by case. Appellations that share a name take the suffix (appellation).
Linking accessions to geographic pages
When you document an accession, you link it to its country, growing region, growing area and, where known, its locality and appellation, using the corresponding template fields. These fields take plain page titles (India, not [[India]]), because the templates make the links.
If a page does not exist yet for the place you are documenting, you can still enter the name. The accession page will show a red link, which signals that a place page needs to be created.
Related pages
- Portal:Geography for the places of the wiki and the geography articles.
- 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.