Evidence labels and how curation works
Every practice in Living Traditions is shared knowledge first. The label says how far science has caught up with it — not whether farmers should keep doing it.
| Label | What it means |
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From contribution to publication
- Anyone can register as a contributor and add a practice, suggest an edit to a published one, ask for one to be withdrawn, or upload a whole workbook in the standard format.
- Each of these is a submission and waits in the review queue. Nothing reaches the public site directly.
- An editor or the super admin reviews it: compares edits with the published text, corrects wording, sets the evidence label, notes the rationale and who validated it, and approves or rejects with a note to the contributor.
- Approved practices appear immediately in the practice list, on the Living Map and in the downloadable workbook. Each one keeps a record of who approved which change.
Editors cannot approve their own submissions; another editor or the super admin decides. Practices flagged for safety (for example human remedies needing clinical review) carry a caution on every page.
Roles
- Contributor
- Adds practices, suggests edits, uploads workbooks, and follows their submissions.
- Editor
- Everything a contributor can do, plus reviewing, correcting, labelling and approving or rejecting submissions — one at a time or a whole upload at once.
- Super admin
- Everything an editor can do, plus managing people and roles and adding categories.