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 {{Wiki|
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+|logo =                 [[Image:Couchwiki logo.png]]
-|wiki_URL =                  http://wiki.CouchSurfing.com
+|URL =                  http://wiki.CouchSurfing.com
-|wiki_recentchanges_URL =    http://wiki.CouchSurfing.com/en/Special:Recentchanges
+|recentchanges URL =    http://wiki.CouchSurfing.com/en/Special:Recentchanges
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+|status =               Active
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+|wikinode URL  =        No
-|wiki_language =             English
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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.
-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.
+CS' historical mission statement from about the mid-2000s is:
-As a community we strive to do our individual and collective parts to create world a better place, and we believe that the surfing of couches is a mean to accomplish this goal.
+<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.)