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==Description== | |||
The [http://wiki.CouchSurfing.com CouchSurfing Wiki] is probably one of the very few wikis (the first?) where the founder of the wiki cannot edit the wiki anymore. | |||
CS' historical mission statement from about the mid-2000s is: | |||
<blockquote>CouchSurfing, a free internet-based hospitality service, seeks to internationally network people and places, '''create educational exchanges''', '''raise collective consciousness''', '''spread tolerance''' and '''facilitate cultural understanding'''. | |||
As a '''community''' we strive to do our individual and collective parts to create the world a better place, and we believe that the surfing of couches is a means to accomplish this goal. | |||
</blockquote> | |||
Phrases highlighted indicate doubt towards the consistency the stated goals have been pursued with. | |||
In 2009 [[Couchwiki]] has been started by the same person who started the original CouchSurfing wiki. | |||
See also the [[OpenCouchSurfing Wiki]]. | |||
The CouchSurfing wiki is scheduled to be deleted on December 14th 2012. | |||
Since the deletion has taken place meanwhile, the way to still access (parts of) the original wiki is by use of the waybackmachine on the [http://www.archive.org Internet Archive]. (The ′couchsurfing.org′ page the wiki was originally related to, has purposefully '''excluded''' itself from public scrutiny through the Internet Archive.) | |||