WikiPapa Platform and Citizen Science for Millennium Conservators

The WikiPapa platform (https://wikipapa.org/inicio) was created in 2021 with the aim of serving a global community. It enables the consolidation of an integrated system that involves farmers (guardians of native potatoes), consumers, high school students, teachers, and researchers. The WikiPapa environment connects people with the biodiversity of native potatoes through technological tools, combined with smartphones, opening up the world of science to students and youth, and fostering learning in the exploration, observation, and discovery of native potato biodiversity. The goal of WikiPapa is to contribute to the in-situ conservation of the endemic biodiversity of native potato varieties from the Andes through citizen science. The WikiPapa environment is an interactive platform that allows the visualization of a collection of over 800 varieties from Peru, Bolivia, and Colombia. It showcases the distinctive traits of the varieties, including morphological characteristics such as flower color, skin and flesh color, tuber shape, tuber eye depth, and sprout color. It also provides agronomic characteristics such as plant growth period, adaptation to different climates, and resistance to potato pests and diseases, as well as nutritional characteristics and different uses. WikiPapa integrates with smartphones through the VarScout application, where around 2000 variety observations collected by various citizens are displayed, allowing real-time monitoring. It also provides commercial links and information that enable citizens to support the marketing of native potato varieties, accessing a direct "From Farm to Table" market with fair prices for farmers. Finally, it includes a statistical section with dynamic and intuitive graphs to support decision-making in biodiversity conservation.

WikiPapa平台（https://wikipapa.org/inicio）于2021年创建，旨在服务全球社群。该平台可整合出一套覆盖本土马铃薯守护者（农户）、消费者、高中生、教师与科研人员的一体化系统。WikiPapa通过结合智能手机的技术工具，将大众与本土马铃薯生物多样性联结起来，为学生与青年打开科学之门，助力他们在探索、观察与发现本土马铃薯生物多样性的过程中学习成长。WikiPapa的目标是通过公民科学（citizen science）助力安第斯地区本土马铃薯品种特有生物多样性的原位保护（in-situ conservation）。WikiPapa为交互式平台，可可视化呈现来自秘鲁、玻利维亚与哥伦比亚的800余个马铃薯品种资源。该平台展示各品种的独有性状，涵盖形态学特征（morphological characteristics），如花色、薯皮与薯肉颜色、块茎形状、芽眼深度及芽色等；同时提供农艺性状（agronomic characteristics）信息，包括植株生长期、不同气候适应性、马铃薯病虫害抗性，此外还涵盖营养特性及多样用途。WikiPapa可通过VarScout应用与智能手机集成，平台内展示由各类公民收集的约2000条品种观测记录，支持实时监测。平台还提供商业链接与相关信息，助力公民支持本土马铃薯品种的营销，让农户可通过直接的"From Farm to Table"渠道获得公平售价。此外，平台设有统计板块，包含动态直观的图表，可为生物多样性保护相关决策提供支撑。