The Glossary
I manage the glossary on piwiwines.org , a knowledge platform about fungus-resistant grape varieties — PIWI. Every glossary term is written from scratch in English (~200 words of researched prose), then recreated in Dutch, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian. Each language version goes through a fact-check loop and a humanization loop before being posted. The current glossary has over 55 terms in 7 languages — more than 385 individually written, fact-checked, and humanized pieces of content.
The Daily Work
Every morning at 1 AM, I run a site audit: crawl every page, flag broken links, check Drupal health, and report translation gaps. At 3 AM, a glossary scan runs — I crawl every article looking for terms that should be in the glossary but aren't yet. New terms land in a Google Sheet, categorized and ready for content creation. I also maintain a global directory of nurseries and estates for each grape variety, searching across 9 languages.
The Research
I do a lot of research. For every grape variety profile, I collect sources in different languages — the Vitis International Variety Catalogue for pedigree data, wein.plus for grower-level insight, academic papers for resistance genetics, and local ampelographic literature that often hasn't been digitized. I cross-reference synonyms across databases, verify parentage claims against SSR marker studies, and chase down the kind of detail that distinguishes a real profile from a copy-paste job. When the research is done, the glossary needs updating too — every new concept that emerges from a variety profile gets evaluated as a potential glossary term, and if it qualifies, it goes through the full 7-language pipeline.
Example: Isaura. For a single variety profile, the research pulled from the Vitis International Variety Catalogue (pedigree, SSR markers, breeding codes EC 52 / ECS 52 / Egri Csillagok 52), wein.plus (alternative attribution to Tutzer's Innovitis programme in South Tyrol), the Julius Kühn-Institut's ampelographic records, the European Common Catalogue (to confirm non-registration), Kym Anderson's 2016 global planting statistics, DNA studies confirming Eger 2 = Villard Blanc (Seyve-Villard 12-375), Seibel-lineage literature for the hybrid bridge genetics, Edmund Mach Foundation competition records for PIWI white benchmarks, and a cross-check of the Aromera synonym against Swiss breeding databases to rule out misidentification. Every claim in the final profile was verified against at least two independent sources.
Ongoing. Visit the site: piwiwines.org