From dev-return-21978-apmail-couchdb-dev-archive=couchdb.apache.org@couchdb.apache.org Sat Apr 14 21:31:17 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-couchdb-dev-archive@www.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7FC41995B for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2012 21:31:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 5558 invoked by uid 500); 14 Apr 2012 21:31:17 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-dev-archive@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 5521 invoked by uid 500); 14 Apr 2012 21:31:17 -0000 Mailing-List: contact dev-help@couchdb.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: dev@couchdb.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list dev@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 5511 invoked by uid 99); 14 Apr 2012 21:31:17 -0000 Received: from nike.apache.org (HELO nike.apache.org) (192.87.106.230) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Sat, 14 Apr 2012 21:31:16 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.0 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: neutral (nike.apache.org: local policy) Received: from [209.85.214.180] (HELO mail-ob0-f180.google.com) (209.85.214.180) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Sat, 14 Apr 2012 21:31:10 +0000 Received: by obbwc20 with SMTP id wc20so3398812obb.11 for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2012 14:30:45 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=kHOSd2x89gVklrB2+7mfrPfa0MI6nuAfNNsn8dEditc=; b=ZajK3d85y4gSwKE29idofkkyWe/4BdDKQ81NMg2QaVYJZHe+Q9S+K9QeluKha+T8kp XZ/qeUxQEuJQxqUZfSo1UkTOLA+wWQkIEcQdFqHSyXWgW5rE8dC0sdDrlWK5E+yNdPoU MWhYaTYSLmdAjdJ6YsL45jmUn6OUdyleB9nvBSxJANKtjrs0XdFf2d34n3j25qr0iroY S1fxQ9N3UK1rg1wz7dam/Z4ib3QnY50+V/zUeLIAh3rU4RB0m0Fjc8peJCEtg91adccR e6aeJ2oQPO0PZD5xqxQrnUAFsbxp50mTaA4/1L1CK5dt5aBLrwJwKXVJJQbtIuTQNU1k 9iqw== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.60.0.201 with SMTP id 9mr8558707oeg.59.1334439045401; Sat, 14 Apr 2012 14:30:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.182.81.164 with HTTP; Sat, 14 Apr 2012 14:30:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 09:30:45 +1200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Wikipedia article cleanup From: Tim McNamara To: dev@couchdb.apache.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmyrBUZF9Q/6wqNHyU2ihsgaOjwE9EYJlbWlEWvcCoSp96H3kss4BeAS+V4mrnUVVTDJJld Are there any recent primary sources to draw from? Wikipedia editors really dislike large edits without references, even if they improve the article. On 15 April 2012 07:19, Jonathan Porta wrote: > Any better with this: > > "Apache CouchDB, commonly referred to as CouchDB, is an open source > NoSQL database that uses JSON for documents, JavaScript for MapReduce > queries, and HTTP for an API.[1] CouchDB was first released in 2005 > and later became an Apache project in 2008. > > Unlike in a relational database, CouchDB does not store data and > relationships in tables, but instead stores structured data as JSON > documents. > > CouchDB implements a form of Multi-Version Concurrency Control (MVCC) > in order to avoid the need to lock the database file during writes. > Conflicts are left to the user to resolve. > > Other features are ACID semantics with eventual consistency, > MapReduce, incremental replication and fault-tolerance. CouchDB ships > with Futon, a web based administration console." > > > Jonathan Porta > > > > On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Robert Newson wrote: >> Certainly very crufty in places. The Talk page contains unchallenged >> (and untrue) assertions that we're all moving to Couchbase server too! >> >> B. >> >> >> On 14 April 2012 16:46, Noah Slater wrote: >>> Hey, >>> >>> Does someone want to take a look at the CouchDB Wikipedia article? >>> >>> The opening paragraph is terrible: >>> >>> "Apache CouchDB, commonly referred to as CouchDB, is an open source >>> document-oriented database NoSQL database system. It could be considered >>> similar to MongoDB." >>> >>> A document-oriented database NoSQL database system? What. We should also >>> not be compared to MongoDB in the first sentence. Or again, later in the >>> article. It should be sufficient to let CouchDB stand on its own merits. >>> Much like how the MongoDB article does not make constant comparisons with >>> CouchDB. >>> >>> There are a number of factually incorrect statements that need cleaning up >>> too. Like the statement that Damien Katz is our lead developer. It should, >>> instead, be noted that he retired from our PMC. Also, IBM do not directly >>> financially support the project, nor do any other companies. Individual >>> developers are not sponsored either. The only sponsorship our project has >>> is listed on the ASF sponsorship page. >>> >>> http://www.apache.org/foundation/thanks.html >>> >>> There are a few other problems too, like outdated references to Couchbase >>> and UQL. >>> >>> In general, there is probably a lot of love and attention someone could >>> pour in to this. I notice that it was updated last week to include the new >>> version number. So someone presumably has their eye on the article. We just >>> need a little bit more work putting in to it, I think. >>> >>> I would do this myself, but I worry that I have a strong conflict of >>> interests. >>> >>> Anyone calm and rational and distant enough want to take this on? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> N