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 http://www.apache.org/foundation/thanks.html There are a few other problems too, like outdated references to Couchbase and UQL.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
