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<blockquote>''Akvopedia. Open source is a Web-based, free content, water and sanitation knowledgeresource. The name Akvopedia is a combination of the words akvo (meaning ''</blockquote>water'' in the language Esperanto) and encyclopedia. Akvopedia article pages seek to provide a solid introduction to water and sanitation technologies, financing, and processes needed for project implementation and maintenance.
Akvopedia is a Web-basedwritten collaboratively by volunteers and specialists, free content project about mainly from the water and sanitation subjects. The name sector, since the creation of Akvopedia is a portmanteau (combination of words and their meanings) of the words akvo (water back in the language Esperanto) and encyclopedia. Akvopedia articles provide links to guide the user to related pages with additional informationsummer of 2007.
The Akvopedia However, visitors do not need specialized qualifications to contribute, since their primary role is written collaboratively by volunteers to write articles that cover existing knowledge (which includes local, in-the-field knowledge); this means that people of all ages and specialists mainly from the water cultural and sanitation sector since the creation of social backgrounds can write Akvopedia during the summer of 2007articles.
Visitors do not need specialized qualifications to contribute, since their primary role ====Visual Editor is to write articles that cover existing knowledge; this means that people of all ages and cultural and social backgrounds can write Avopedia articles. Most of the articles can be edited by anyone now here====We have upgraded Akvopedia with access to the Internet, simply by clicking the edit this page link. Anyone is welcome Wikipedia style Visual Editor upload/editing tool to add informationenable a simplified platform, cross-references or citations, as long as they do so within Akvopedia's editing policies and to an appropriate standard. Substandard or disputed information that zero programming knowledge is subject needed to removalcreate/edit article on Akvopedia. Users need not worry about accidentally damaging Akvopedia when adding or improving information, as other editors are always around To learn how to advise or correct obvious errorsuse the Visual editor, and Akvopedia's software (MediaWiki<ref>see the Wikipedia [httphttps://wwwen.mediawikiwikipedia.org MediaWiki/wiki/Help:Introduction tutorials on how to use it]</ref>. But as always, which if it is more convenient for you we can also powers the Wikipedia) is carefully designed to allow easy reversal of editorial mistakes.create and upload your pages for you!
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The === Acknowledgements ===Akvopedia started as an open collaborative effort of [http://www.akvo.org Akvo], initiated by [http://www.nwp.nl Netherlands Water Partnership], [http://www.ircircwash.nl org/ IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre], [http://www.unesco-ihe.org UNESCO-IHE], [http://www.greenocean.org GreenOcean] and the [http://wwwmovementbureau.movementdesignblogs.org com/ The Movement Design Bureau]. Prototype funding has been provided by [http://www.partnersvoorwater.nl/ Partners voor Water].
Much of the initial content of in this wiki comes from the books [http://www.ircircwash.nlorg/pageresources/28448 smart-sanitation-solutions-examples-innovative-low-cost-technologies-toilets-collection Smart Sanitation Solutions] and [http://http://wwwpractica.practicafoundation.nlorg/librarypublications/smart-water-solutions.html / Smart Water Solutions] produced in collaboration with [http://www.nwp.nl Netherlands Water Partnership], [http://www.waste.nl WASTE], [http://wwwpractica.practicafoundation.nlorg/ PRACTICA], [http://www.ircircwash.nl org/ IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre], SIMAWI [http://www.simavi.org SIMAVI] and [http://www.partnersforwaterpartnersvoorwater.nl/ Partners voor Water] [[Category:Akvopedia| ]]