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<font size="4" color="#72CDFF">Akvopedia. Open source is written collaboratively by volunteers and specialists, mainly from the water and sanitation knowledgesector, since the creation of Akvopedia back in the summer of 2007.</font>

Akvopedia is a Web-basedHowever, visitors do not need specialized qualifications to contribute, free content project about water and sanitation subjects. The name Akvopedia since their primary role is a combination of the words akvo to write articles that cover existing knowledge (water which includes local, in -the language Esperanto-field knowledge) ; this means that people of all ages and encyclopedia. cultural and social backgrounds can write Akvopedia articles provide links to guide the user to related pages with additional information.

The ====Visual Editor is now here====We have upgraded Akvopedia with the Wikipedia style Visual Editor upload/editing tool to enable a simplified platform, so that zero programming knowledge is written collaboratively by volunteers and specialists mainly from the water and sanitation sector since needed to create/edit article on Akvopedia. To learn how to use the creation of Akvopedia during Visual editor, see the summer of 2007Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Introduction tutorials on how to use it].But as always, if it is more convenient for you we can also create and upload your pages for you!

Visitors do not need specialized qualifications to contribute, since their primary role is to write articles that cover existing knowledge; this means that people of all ages ===Trademarks and cultural copyright ===Akvopedia and social backgrounds can write Akvopedia articles. Most Akvo are trademarks of the articles can be edited by anyone with access to the Internet, simply by clicking the 'edit this page' link. A login can be obtained [http://www.akvo.org/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&type=signup here]. A [[Editing_an_Akvopedia_page| graphical guideAkvo Foundation]] to help you get started is available, and other [[Help:Contents| Help pages]] are available too(Stichting Akvo).

Anyone is welcome to add information, cross-references or citations, as long as they do so within Akvopedia's editing policies and to an appropriate standard. Substandard or disputed information is subject to removal. Users need not worry about accidentally damaging Akvopedia when adding or improving information, as other editors are always around to advise or correct obvious errors, and Akvopedia's software [http://www.mediawiki.org MediaWiki] (which also powers the [http://www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia]) is carefully designed to allow easy reversal of editorial mistakes. Users who edit and contribute to the Akvopedia should follow the [[Akvopedia:Policies_and_guidelines|policies and guidelines]] which are available. == Trademarks and copyright ==Akvopedia and Akvo are trademarks of the nonprofit [[Netherlands Water Partnership]]. It is anticipated that as soon as the [[Akvo Foundation]] (Stichting Akvo) has been set up, the trademarks will be transferred to the Akvo Foundation. All of the text in the Akvopedia, and most of the images and other content, is covered by the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons Share-Alike 3.0] (CC-BY-SA) license. Contributions remain the property of their creators, while the CC-BY-SA license ensures the content is can be freely distributable distributed and reproduciblereproduced. (See the content [[Akvopedia:General_disclaimer | disclaimer]] for more information.)

== Aknowledgements ==The Akvopedia started as an open collaborative effort of general Akvo terms and conditions are here: [httphttps://www.akvo.org Akvo], initiated by [http:/help/www.nwp.nl Netherlands Water Partnership], [http://www.irc.nl IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre], [http://www.unescoakvo-ihe.org UNESCOpolicies-IHE], [http://www.greenocean.org GreenOcean] and [http://www.movementdesign.org 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.irc.nl/page/28448 Smart Sanitation Solutions] and [http://http://www.practicafoundation.nl/library/smart-solutions.html Smart Water Solutions] produced in collaboration with [http:terms-2//www.nwp.nl Netherlands Water Partnership], [http://www.waste.nl WASTE], [http://www.practicafoundation.nl/ PRACTICA], [http://www.irc.nl IRC International Water Akvo Policies and Sanitation CentreTerms], SIMAWI and [http://www.partnersforwater.nl/ Partners voor Water]

== Neighbourhood = Acknowledgements ===There is the Akvopedia started as an open collaborative effort of [http://www.akvo.org Akvo], initiated by [http://www.nwp.nl Netherlands Water Partnership], [http://www.ircwash.org/ IRC], [http://www.unesco-ihe.org UNESCO-IHE], [http://www.greenocean.org GreenOcean] and [WikiNodehttp://movementbureau.blogs.com/ The Movement Design Bureau]. Prototype funding has been provided by [http://www.partnersvoorwater.nl/ Partners voor Water] for networking with the neighbourhood in the wiki landscape.