From dev-return-21977-apmail-couchdb-dev-archive=couchdb.apache.org@couchdb.apache.org Sat Apr 14 19:20:47 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 85A9B9C8A for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2012 19:20:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 48449 invoked by uid 500); 14 Apr 2012 19:20:47 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-dev-archive@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 48399 invoked by uid 500); 14 Apr 2012 19:20:47 -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 48391 invoked by uid 99); 14 Apr 2012 19:20:46 -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 19:20:46 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (nike.apache.org: domain of rurd4me@gmail.com designates 74.125.83.52 as permitted sender) Received: from [74.125.83.52] (HELO mail-ee0-f52.google.com) (74.125.83.52) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Sat, 14 Apr 2012 19:20:38 +0000 Received: by eekd4 with SMTP id d4so1028683eek.11 for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2012 12:20:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type; bh=8OBAjI05MgtAzcFsYhzlUfVFNm18Wj9Nu7/xcRMoXL0=; b=pRbzLxroInfn+tR+WaNGwwv0gQZcTQyA7nVqaeLqnvFrHlFfjlnpcJDDj/EzuVOPyT 1e8WndEVIcWjF15QriJ79VVzFlvn91HB3vgboRGWBKKTg5vC4cKOYFeT7hWpER190/3H 6LOng/uQguivA5ltBSKMU3rgAigGRjDgxtDW5ruHZlAr7Yp6sL0PCnH6ToufYtBblTME A7wPJzi82lWTwJzN7vXk+Hey2UgsSDQod2SaeUAfUM2MKLxSs1wE+RRCKZaQ65WO8IG6 R68xdY5qcMLj6g+40adMOOsDtgwwUiikXgMSrNq9n1CI4QlYSnNmAluxm1aTlo1L/a1v kEKA== Received: by 10.213.33.78 with SMTP id g14mr432265ebd.106.1334431217588; Sat, 14 Apr 2012 12:20:17 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.14.136.144 with HTTP; Sat, 14 Apr 2012 12:19:57 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Jonathan Porta Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 13:19:57 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Wikipedia article cleanup To: dev@couchdb.apache.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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