Research Tools

This page is a directory for readers and researchers who want to cite Landrace.Wiki or use the data and tools it exposes. It also lists external databases and reference managers that pair well with the kind of work documented here.

If you are a contributor looking for guidance on how to cite sources you use within wiki articles, see Help:Sourcing. If you want general orientation on what is on the site, see Help:Contents and the About page.

Citing Landrace.Wiki

Landrace.Wiki is published by the Zomia Collective and released under the Creative Commons Attribution–ShareAlike 4.0 licence. You are free to cite, quote, redistribute and build upon any of its content provided attribution is given and derivative works carry the same licence.

Most academic and journalistic citation styles treat a wiki page as a web resource with a corporate author and an access date. The recommended corporate author for Landrace.Wiki citations is Landrace.Wiki contributors, following the convention used by other reference projects.

Accession pages, growing-area pages and historical-source pages are the most commonly cited content types. Each is treated below.

Accession pages

Accessions are the most data-rich pages on the wiki. They carry an accession ID of the form COL-COUNTRY-REGION-MMYYYYNNNN, structured field data, and obfuscated coordinates at approximately 500m precision (see Landrace.Wiki:Privacy policy).

Cite the accession by its ID, which is also the page title and the canonical URL slug. Worked examples for accession RSC-AFG-BAL-0120190001:

APA (7th ed.): Landrace.Wiki contributors. (n.d.). RSC-AFG-BAL-0120190001. Landrace.Wiki. Retrieved 27 April 2026, from https://landrace.wiki/wiki/RSC-AFG-BAL-0120190001

Chicago (notes-bibliography): "RSC-AFG-BAL-0120190001," Landrace.Wiki, accessed 27 April 2026, https://landrace.wiki/wiki/RSC-AFG-BAL-0120190001.

MLA (9th ed.): "RSC-AFG-BAL-0120190001." Landrace.Wiki, Zomia Collective, https://landrace.wiki/wiki/RSC-AFG-BAL-0120190001. Accessed 27 Apr. 2026.

Vancouver: Landrace.Wiki contributors. RSC-AFG-BAL-0120190001 [Internet]. Zomia Collective; [cited 2026 Apr 27]. Available from: https://landrace.wiki/wiki/RSC-AFG-BAL-0120190001

BibTeX

@misc{lwacc-rsc-afg-bal-0120190001,
  author       = {{Landrace.Wiki contributors}},
  title        = {RSC-AFG-BAL-0120190001},
  howpublished = {Landrace.Wiki},
  year         = {2026},
  url          = {https://landrace.wiki/wiki/RSC-AFG-BAL-0120190001},
  urldate      = {2026-04-27}
}

When citing accession data points (a coordinate, a chemotype, a collection date), cite the accession page itself. Where the underlying field record has been deposited at Zenodo with a DOI, cite the DOI in addition to or instead of the wiki page. DOIs are the more durable identifier.

Geographic pages

Country, growing-region and growing-area pages aggregate accession data and ethnobotanical material. Cite by page title and URL.

Example (APA):

Landrace.Wiki contributors. (n.d.). Cambodia. Landrace.Wiki. Retrieved 27 April 2026, from https://landrace.wiki/wiki/Cambodia

Historical-source pages

Pages in this class summarise and link to a primary historical text (Crévost & Lemarié, Martin 1975, Herbarium Amboinense, and others). Two distinct things can be cited:

The wiki page (a tertiary source, summarising the work)
The original work itself (a primary or secondary source)

For most academic uses, cite the original work directly. Use the wiki page as a finding aid. Where the wiki page contains analysis or commentary not present in the original, cite both.

Concept and portal articles

Concept articles (Landrace cannabis, Cannabis sativa, Cannabis Botany and so on) and portal pages can be cited like any wiki article. They are working documents and may be revised; if precision matters, link to a permanent revision via &oldid= URLs:

 https://landrace.wiki/index.php?title=Landrace_cannabis&oldid=12345

The "Permanent link" tool in the page sidebar produces this URL.

News and research items

News items and research items are short structured records. Cite the page title and URL. Where a news item references an underlying news source, cite the original source as well.

The wiki as a whole

For general references to the project rather than a specific page:

APA: Zomia Collective. (n.d.). Landrace.Wiki. https://landrace.wiki

BibTeX

@misc{landracewiki,
  author       = {{Zomia Collective}},
  title        = {Landrace.Wiki},
  url          = {https://landrace.wiki},
  urldate      = {2026-04-27}
}

Tools hosted on this wiki

Machine-readable API

Every accession, growing region and growing area is available through a public API. The base URL is https://landrace.wiki/api.php and queries follow the MediaWiki Action API convention extended by Semantic MediaWiki's action=askargs.

A worked example, returning the descriptive name of one accession in JSON:

 https://landrace.wiki/api.php?action=askargs&conditions=Category:Accessions&printouts=Has%20descriptive%20name&parameters=limit%3D1&format=json

Full endpoint documentation, the property list, the rate-limit policy and the licensing terms are at Landrace.Wiki:API.

Semantic queries through the wiki interface

Three special pages provide ad-hoc query access without writing API calls:

Special:Ask builds queries through a form and returns results as table, list, CSV or JSON.
Special:Browse inspects all properties set on a single page.
Special:Properties lists every defined property and how many pages use it.

Coordinates returned through any of these interfaces are obfuscated to the same approximately 500m precision as the public-facing maps.

Schema.org JSON-LD

Every accession page emits a Schema.org Dataset block in its HTML head. Crawlers, search indices and AI agents that respect schema.org markup will see structured fields including coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 500, the licence, the creator (Zomia Collective) and a list of keywords. View source on any accession page to inspect the block, or fetch the page and parse the <script type="application/ld+json"> element.

Maps and geospatial layers

The Maps page hosts the project's interactive map, including marker clustering, growing-area polygons and a Three.js globe view. Underlying GeoJSON layers are exposed via Semantic MediaWiki CSV exports and can be ingested into QGIS, Leaflet, Mapbox or any other geospatial tool.

Sitemap and llms.txt

https://landrace.wiki/sitemap.xml for crawlers
https://landrace.wiki/llms.txt for language-model agents that respect the llms.txt convention

External research tools and databases

The tools below are not hosted by Landrace.Wiki but are routinely used in landrace cannabis research and complement what the wiki documents. Inclusion is descriptive, not endorsement.

Bibliographic and academic literature

PubMed for biomedical and pharmacology literature
Crossref for DOI lookup and metadata across publishers
bioRxiv for cannabis genomics and botany preprints
Google Scholar for general-purpose literature search
OpenAlex as an open metadata alternative to commercial indices

Biodiversity and herbarium records

GBIF, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, for occurrence records of Cannabis worldwide
iDigBio for digitised natural-history specimens, including herbarium sheets
Biodiversity Heritage Library for open access to historical botanical literature
JSTOR Global Plants for type specimens and African herbarium records
Plants of the World Online for accepted nomenclature

Genomic resources

GenBank for Cannabis nucleotide and genome sequences
SRA for raw sequencing reads from published cannabis studies
ENA (European Nucleotide Archive) for the EMBL mirror of the same data

Plant genetic resources and crop conservation

Genesys for the global aggregation of crop genebank holdings
FAO WIEWS for national and international PGRFA reporting
Crop Wild Relatives portal for related-species occurrence data

Cannabis-focused resources

Geopium (Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy) for geography-of-drugs scholarship and policy analysis
UNODC World Drug Report and country profiles for enforcement and trade data
Erowid for older grey-literature ethnobotanical material (use with care; quality varies)
ICmag and similar grower forums for vernacular cultivation reports (treat as primary observation, not authority)

Geographic gazetteers and tools

GeoNames for place-name lookup and ISO codes
OpenStreetMap and Nominatim for boundary geometry
geojson.io for tracing and editing polygons in the browser
Natural Earth for cartographic base layers

Citation and reference managers

Any reference manager that accepts BibTeX, RIS, or CSL JSON can store Landrace.Wiki citations. Notes on the most common ones:

Zotero. The Zotero browser connector treats most wiki pages as web resources by default; verify the captured "Author" field reads Landrace.Wiki contributors and the URL points at the slug, not a &action=edit or search URL.
JabRef and other BibTeX-native managers. Use the @misc entry type with the templates above.
Hypothes.is for collaborative annotation. Annotations are anchored to the page URL and persist across revisions; for citing a specific revision use the permalink &oldid= URL.
Crossref Citation Formatter if a DOI is involved (Zenodo deposits, journal articles cited from the wiki).

Depositing your own field research

Field reports, ethnobotanical surveys and historical-source scholarship that the wiki then cites should ideally be deposited at a venue that mints a persistent identifier. The project maintains a Zenodo community called Landrace Cannabis Research and Documentation for this purpose. Zenodo deposits receive a DOI, are versioned, accept ORCIDs for author attribution and are indexed by major scholarly aggregators.

The wiki itself is not a primary publication venue. Citing a Patreon post, a forum thread or a chat log on a wiki page weakens the citation chain. Where possible:

Deposit the underlying material at Zenodo (CC-BY recommended)
Cite the DOI on the wiki page
Use the wiki to summarise, not to host, the primary record

This pattern keeps the wiki acting as a tertiary aggregator rather than a circular citation target.

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