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[[Wiki.trustroots.org]] is an independent wiki with information for people who are actively exchanging hospitality.
(New page: ''Keep the html tags, thanks'' General announcement. For those that don't know: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY">What's a wiki?</a> Following the repeated intention ...)
 
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General announcement.
 
For those that don't know: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY">What's a wiki?</a>
 
Following the repeated intention from the admin of this website to delete the content of the wiki that is not travelguide-like. Someone finally opened a couchsurfing wiki for all other content. It is there: couchwiki.org
 
To see the details of the wiki battle between the admins and the users, visit the <a href="http://www.couchsurfing.org/group.html?gid=3727">wiki group</a>. In particular those threads:
<a href="http://www.couchsurfing.org/group_read.html?gid=3727&post=2566865">March 2009: original annoucement</a>.
<a href="http://www.couchsurfing.org/group_read.html?gid=3727&post=2837321">April: Edits will be restricted to a small team</a>
<a href="http://www.couchsurfing.org/group_read.html?gid=3727&post=2755486">4 months waiting for an answer from the coordinator</a>
<a href="http://www.couchsurfing.org/group_read.html?gid=3727&post=3981801">October: Confirmation that the wiki will be turned into a travelguide and all other content will be deleted</a>
 
 
 
On a personal level, I seriously urge you not to contribute to the CS travelguide wiki if it ever sees the light of day. It has a very restrictive licence that makes its content unusable, in particular by the contributors themselves. There is a participative travelguide that already exists and that is very successful and that already has a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0/">flexible licence</a>. It is called <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Main_Page">wikitravel</a>. They are both based on the same software so they are identical to use.
 
Trust the geek on such matters.

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