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Welcome to the CouchSurfing Wiki

The Couchsurfing Project

We know that CouchSurfing.com is a service that helps you find free places to stay and great people to hang out with when you are traveling. It's more than that though. The stated mission of CouchSurfing 2.0 is to internationally network people and places, create educational exchanges, raise collective consciousness, spread tolerance and facilitate cultural understanding. A wiki is a perfect tool for this purpose.

A wiki is a collectively authored website that you define and create! The CouchSurfing Wiki uses the same structure and is a part of the same RW community as Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. By clicking this edit link, you can alter this very sentence, right now! Also check out the Sandbox!

What kind of content will the CouchSurfing Wiki have? What will it be? Is it a manual for using CouchSurfing.com? Is it a user guide for surfers and hosts? A resource directory for the local CouchSurfing community in every city in the world? A CS news source written by you? Or is it all that combined? You decide! edit

Participate!

This Wiki won't write itself. And it isn't being written by an appointed council of professionals. Every page and article on this Wiki has been added by many people like you, working in cooperation with each other, building on each other's knowledge and enthusiam. So what are you waiting for? Jump right in and add to a page where you want to see improvement. Don't be afraid of making a mistake. You can always undo your edits, and it's really really hard to break stuff! ;) If you need more direction, you can visit the help page. Remember, you're a part of a team, so don't refrain from leaving your comments on talk pages, such as the one related to this text, or at the Wiki community.

New Zealand Collective

There is a CouchSurfing Collective in Nelson, New Zealand. It's a working and living cooperative environment where people from all over the world participate in creating and improving CouchSurfing. It has roots on the idea of self organizing organizations. We can create our projects, build our own teams, cooperate on the development of the emotional tourism concept and the emotional tourists in all of us. The Collective participants are using the CouchSurfing Wiki for many things, allowing you to participate!

The War on Them

The War On Them is an exciting new internet based show that is created and owned by the CouchSurfing community. BUT it is being built for the crazy non-CouchSurfing people in this world and is to be made freely available to all no matter where they live.

The idea is to take the idea of "changing the world one couch at a time" a step further by showing the entire world who we are and how travel can change their entire life experience. To do this the idea of a viewer produced show was formed that would utilize this wiki in a way that has never been done before.

CouchSurfing Guide

This part of the Wiki is a project to gather useful information for CouchSurfers including traveler advice and advice about specific places.

Location guides

Europe, France, Paris, United Kingdom, London, Netherlands, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Germany, Berlin, Hamburg, Italy, Padova, Venice, Lithuania, Vilnius, Portugal, Lisbon, Austria, Vienna, Finland, Helsinki - North America, United States, New York City, San Francisco, Washington, DC, Nashville, St. Augustine, FL, Canada, Toronto, Montreal, Quebec City, Vancouver, Ottawa, Mexico, Mexico City - Asia, India, Mumbai, Japan - South America, Peru, Lima, Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Colombia, Buenos Aires - Oceania, New Zealand, Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Nelson, Australia, Melbourne, Sydney Canberra, Perth, Darwin, Syria, Middle East Click on a red link to start a new article!


Tips

Security Issues

Guides for Guests and Travelers

Guides for Hosts

Guides for Everybody

CouchSurfing Documents

Site development

Drafts, ideas, future

Press Releases

Multilingual

Deutsch, Español, Francophone, Italiano, Nederlands, Polski, Português, Svenska, Русский, Български,Bahasa


CouchSurfing.com for Dummies

CouchSurfing.com for Dummies can be both a very detailed manual and a set of easy to understand tutorials on how to use the CouchSurfing.com website.

CS Wiki for Dummies

We are working on 2,019 pages. Currently this wiki is in its initial stage. So now it's even more important then ever to be bold and edit and add! Remember: you cannot break anything by editing! Just give it a try in the Sandbox.

This is an unofficial CouchSurfing news source. Feel free to add anything you think is news worthy for CS! discuss, edit or add news


2009

March

2008

September

  • 2008-26-09: Peter Heesakkers who was graduated in June this year with his research on CouchSurfing is nominated for two thesis awards in the Netherlands. in his research he links several theories and tourism practices with CouchSurfing and revised tourism models from Plog and Cohen in order to apply on the practice of CouchSurfing and the changing nature of tourism.
  • 2008-05-09: The Braderie de Lille, the biggest Braderie in Europe will be organised during all the first week end of september. The CS Community of Lille will make a stand for this event. Check the meeting page for more details, and don't hesitate to join us !

June

May

  • 2008-05-20: The french Couchsurfers are writing their new French CS Newsletter for french speaking people, describing the France CS Organisation and the CS activity in France. The english version of this letter is coming next !

March

February

  • 2008-02-21: Huge downtime of CouchSurfing. Instead of the planned "2 hour maintenance" downtime (this time announced in advance) it persisted until 2008-02-22, noon. In the meantime there was a error message displayed when trying to load the CouchSurfing site telling about small "hiccups" being resolved at the moment and certainly being back on in short time. Back online in fact one and a half day later.

January

2007

August

Couchsurfers unite to form their first camp at Burning Man! Burning Man 2007

July

June

May

15 May - Underground CS News launched! Check out the Cutting Room

April

March

2006

December

November

October

31 October - CouchSurfing was offline for a while. How did you feel when you saw that database problem thing? Tell us, please. See our crash reports page for more information about these issues. Feel free to voice your opinion. CouchSurfing.com apologizes for the issue. As we mature, we get more stable.

26 October - Start mailing your postcards! We have gotten a location for the collective! And.... we got a special wall just for your postcards! So start sending them! The address for the NZ Collective is: The Couchsurfing Collective - 22 The Cliffs, Brittania Heights - Nelson 7010, NEW ZEALAND.

24 October - CouchSurfing New Zealand Collective Blog online check it out here and if you're going to be there, sign up today! ..and 200 articles in the Wiki!

21 October - You can now link to the CS Wiki with URLs like wiki.couchsurfing.com/en/News.

20 October - The website is slowly being revamped: user profiles and buttons look slightly different now. Some issues have shown up, many of them were fixed immediately

18 October - Le premier article francophone sur le Wiki! ...et 150 articles.

17 October - bugs.couchsurfing.com is up and running, create an account and report and stay updated about da bugz! Check the Mantis guide for CS bug reporters.

10 October - GuakaTalkCS set up a CouchSurfing Wiki Group on CS.

9 October - Vote for the CouchSurfing Collective in New Zealand at Givemeaning.com.

6 October - The travel show CouchSufing is putting together was renamed from "UProduce", to "The War on Them" and all the corresponding information is being changed on the Wiki.

September

27 September - Now there are links to other sites in the left pane, which makes it easier to navigate to CS, CS groups and Wikitravel. The CouchSurfing Wiki reached 100 articles.

26 September - New Zealand is the coolest place in the world, according to CoolBrands Wikinews.

22 September - You can now upload images and other documents to this wiki.

21 September - The Wiki is now mentioned on the CouchSurfing website. Welcome, y'all! Also, Eric is very actively adding info on The War on Them, an internet based show with viewer participation.

August

19 August - We've reached 50 articles. CouchSurfing Guide is taking off. If you're interested, please participate in finding the Guide Guidelines.

16 August - Enabled credits for every page of the CouchSurfing Wiki. Now you can quickly see who worked on what. There is an alpha version of Wiki integration into CS (text from here, Wikitravel and the Hitchhiking Wiki). Check the CouchSurfing Guide to Paris and please give feedback. This wiki is developing really fast, and we want you to edit it and start working out ideas!

15 August - Paula Bialski published a very interesting article about Emotional Tourism, An interpretive study of online hospitality exchange systems as a new form of tourism, available at the Hospitality Guide Wiki.

14 August - Some other people are actually editing stuff on the wiki! This is very positive. Soon it will be possible to integrate text from here into (and from Wikitravel, as an extra bonus) into couchsurfing.com.

11 August - Guaka set up and started this wiki.

Did you know that the navigation bar on the left side contains some useful links. Recent changes is one of them. It allows you to see all changes made to this wiki, in chronological order. You can also watch specific pages, so that they will show up on your watchlist. In your preferences you can choose to get informed by email whenever a page on your watchlist is changed by someone else.

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