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 <[email protected]> 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 There are a few other problems too, like outdated references to Couchbase 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
