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Wikicaves association

Aims

"Promote the development of speleology in the world, especially through web-based collaboration"  : wikicaves.org

Contacts

• home page of Wikicaves website, association that publishes GrottoCenter ;
  • contact form ;
  • Wikicaves multilingual blog

Board

• Board decisions (in French)

Grottocenter project

Access and discussions

• Grottocenter V2.1 & Grottocenter V3 (béta),
  "the database (+ encyclopedic sheets) made by cavers for cavers"
  • GrottoCenter blog in English
  • GrottoCenter FB page

Recommendations to contributors

• Respect bats
  • Guidelines for cavers regarding bat conservation

• Contribute properly
  • Recommendations for the input of new entrances data

User Guides

General user guide for GC V3

In English and in French only, until now :

• Main User Guide (Grottocenter V3)
• Guide général de l'utilisateur (Grottocenter V.3)

User guide for CSV data import (CSV = "comma separated values")

In English and in French only, until now :

• User Guide for CSV data import
• Guide d'importation de données CSV

International Union of Speleology (UIS)

UIS symbols for cave surveys / Symboles UIS pour la topographie

• Easy-to-read reference to UIS symbols for cave surveys / ...
• UIS cave symbols / Signes conventionnels topo UIS
• UIS symbols for artificial cavities / ...

Speleological Abstracts / Bulletin bibliographique spéléologique (SA/BBS)

• "Speleological Abstracts" (SA/BBS) is changing...

French mailing list Speleos-fr

• Speleos-fr guidelines (in French)

Caving general information

Links in the frame hereunder lead to the Free Encyclopedia, Wikipedia, in English, with access to other languages.

1. Speleology
2. Caving
3. Speleothem
4. Liste de spéléologues / Liste von Höhlenforschern (not available in English)
5. List of caves
6. List of longest caves
7. List of deepest caves
8. Liste des plus grandes salles souterraines naturelles (not available in English)
9. Liste des méga-dolines (not available in English)
10. Liste des plus grands puits naturels (not available in English)
11. Liste des plus grands siphons naturels (not available in English)

Do not forget

Grottocenter

Backstage of Grottocenter project

Human ressources

• The Grottocenter contributors

Authors' rights

• Licences (in French only, please help us to translate)
• Contrat d'édition / Publishing contract‎‎ (in French only, please help us to translate)

Some encyclopedic files abouts caves

These encyclopedic files are intended to complete and detail the information summarized in the cavities sheets of Grottocenter V.2 and later V.3. They are largely inspired by articles in multilingual Wikipedia encyclopedias.

• Grottocenter (sheet #6077): (fr) Grotte de Lascaux ; or Wikipedia article in English (and access to other languages): (fr) Grotte de Lascaux
• Grottocenter (sheet #23305): (fr) Grotte de Blombos ; or Wikipedia article in French (and access to other languages): (fr) Grotte de Blombos
• Grottocenter (sheet #25333): (fr) Grotte de l'Aguzou ; or Wikipedia article in French: (fr) Grotte de l'Aguzou.
• Grottocenter (sheet #60898): (en) Jomosom Cave 3 ; no article available in Wikipedia yet
• Grottocenter (sheet #1): (fr) Gouffre Jean-Bernard ; or Wikipedia article in French (and access to other languages) : (fr) Gouffre Jean-Bernard
• ...

Do not hesitate to initiate new encyclopedic files, in your language, by taking inspiration from the few existing specimens above, as well as from the Wikipedia encyclopedia in your language.

Tutorials

• A tutorial (in French) to help you to create encyclopaedic sheets abouts caves

Statistics

• A page to display statistics for studies or maintenance of data from Grottocenter V2 database.

Legal and privacy

• Legal and privacy statement

See also

• Summary Wikicaves links, all the usefull links on Souterweb.