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Venipedia is a wiki-based website dedicated to providing unique information and data about the city of Venice, Italy. Although there are already several sources on the internet about Venice, including both the English and Italian Wikipedia websites as well as various Italian organizations, there are some issues associated with such sources. Wikipedia is a general knowledge encyclopedia that does not give very detailed information and provides almost no data about Venice. The Italian Wikipedia and Italian organizations provide more data, yet both types of resources are largely unavailable to the English speaking audience because these resources are written in Italian. Venipedia aims to fill the gap between these available resources by providing data-driven information to English speakers.

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Featured Article: Well

This page contains information about a typical Venetian well.

A well is a water system built by Venetians to collect and filter rain to be stored as freshwater.

Diagram of a typical cistern below a wellhead.[1]

Structure

A typical well has an underground cistern, a well shaft, drains and a layer of fine river sand between the cistern and the pavement.

Well Shaft

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  1. Blackwell, Lewis et al. Preserving Venetian Wellheads. 2000. Pg 21