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Winery pages can be created for every organization dealing with wine production, be it a vintner, a bottler, or a simple distributor. The rule is simple: if its name appears on a wine label, it deserves a page in Vinismo.
edit How to start a new winery page
edit Beginners: Use the form
Vinismo offers a quick and easy winery description form to help you add new wine producers. You can access it at all times by clicking Add a winery in the home page of Vinismo.
Using this form speeds the process of creating new winery pages, since it spares you of any wiki-code editing.
edit Advanced users: Use our pre-filled template
Our pre-filled Winery page template can be chosen with a simple click on the magic word winery every time you start a new page. Unlike our form-based wizard, this method requires some knowledge of wiki code.
edit Expert users: Use the traditional method
The traditional Wiki method to create a new page is to create a link to it from another page.
Typically, winery pages are linked from one or several appellation or region pages. For more details, see Vinismo:Geographical hierarchy.
Once you've created a link to your new winery, just click on it to access the edit window and start writing. Please read the remaining sections of this article to make sure you don't forget any of the required sections and tags.
edit Winery naming conventions
Official winery names are often not reproduced in their entirety on a wine's bottle label. A little research can help confirming the name used most commonly by this winery to sell wine.
NOTE: If you used our winery description form, you don't need to worry about your title. It should be automatically titled accordingly.
edit Typical sections on a winery page
These are the pre-defined sections that should be found in any winery page. If you don't have anything to add to a particular section, leave it empty; other helpful, knowledgeable Vinismo users will surely come and fill it.
edit Introduction
Please sum up in one or two sentences where the winery and its vineyards are located, and to which region(s) and appellation(s) its wines are affiliated.
edit Company profile
This section covers commercial aspects of the winery: who owns it, what's its corporate status, etc.
edit History
This is where you tell the story of the winery, from its start to the present day. You can be as epic as you want in your writing; winemaking is always an heroic achievement!
edit Contact
The title is self-explanatory: this is where you put the contact info for this winery.
edit Visits
Is this winery open to the public? Does it organize tasting events? Please give here all the details (opening hours, prices...).
edit See also
This is where you put links to other Vinismo pages related to this winery.
edit Sidebar: Wines produced by this winery
This section should link to every wine produced by this winery. If you don't know them all, just list the ones you know; another kind, knowledgeable Vinismo user will complete the job. This section should be edited separately in the sidebar.
If you used the form to create your new winery page, the sidebar has already been created for you. It should display the link "Add a wine by this winery", which leads you to the wine page creation form.
This is the most important section of every winery page, since Vinismo users mainly come to our site to find individual wines. Wines are listed in winery pages in order to avoid listing thousands of wines for each particular appellation or region.
edit Using the {{isIn|...}} tag
Don't forget to fill our Vinismo:geographical hierarchy tag. It will automatically create breadcrumbs on the top of your page indicating in which country and region your winery is located.
NOTE: If you used our winery description form, this tag should have been created automatically, using the information you submitted.
To do this, just fill the name of the first parent region or appellation after the vertical bar in the {{isIn|...}} code at the bottom of the page. Make sure you're using the correct spelling for that region or appellation. If you make a mistake, you'll know it at first, because the breadcrumbs won't correctly display the full geographical hierarchy.
edit Illustrations
Feel free to add nice illustrations showing the winery's facilities or vineyards. Just make sure that they are compatible with our Copyleft licence. See Adding images for details.
