At the moment, the wiki is definitely an experiment so we are assuming there will be many tweaks and changes to the way things work in the coming months. It is a true wiki in the sense that is completely “unmonitored” but everyone has the tools to correct or roll back changes. We are monitoring it on a high level for now, but we’ll just have to see how it goes to see if it is the right way forward.

You are completely right that we will all have different ideas on what data is “right” and “wrong” . We would like ideally to have the plant wiki reflect the general “expert” opinion for the plant – the sort of info you would read on the back of a seed packet. All of your experiences with the plant (i.e. growing out of zone, different light etc) will eventually be another layer upon this data (it’s hard to explain the whole big picture on this yet, but we’ll try explain more as we go along)

Documenting Pests and Diseases is a great idea – we’ll add that one to the list :)

Thanks for the suggestions guys! We’ll be doing another release for the plant wiki quite soon that will add more fields and refine the ones we have now. We’ll also add in the Imperial conversions for all you non-metric types as well ;)

@spidra – The care instructions should be the general / average data for the plant – for example, the “days to maturity” for a plant should be a rough average of how long it takes to grow across all varieties. It can then be used as a general guideline for growing that plant (as we get more data in for varieties, we’ll eventually start trying to derive the precise range from the variety data, but we’ll use the plant average as the fallback if we don’t yet have enough data)

One of our tasks for this week is the variety / cultivar wiki, so you should be able to start adding that level of detail quite soon….