Re: Wikipedia article cleanup

2012-04-15 Thread Robert Newson
Great stuff, it's definitely improving. On 15 April 2012 01:20, Tim McNamara paperl...@timmcnamara.co.nz wrote: I've spent some time this morning, working on the introduction and making from stylistic changes. I think the text is much more readable now. Some support on more supportive matters

Re: Wikipedia article cleanup

2012-04-15 Thread Tim McNamara
On 15 April 2012 12:20, Tim McNamara paperl...@timmcnamara.co.nz wrote: I've spent some time this morning, working on the introduction and making from stylistic changes. I think the text is much more readable now. Some support on more supportive matters would be welcome.

Wikipedia article cleanup

2012-04-14 Thread Noah Slater
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

Re: Wikipedia article cleanup

2012-04-14 Thread Robert Newson
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 nsla...@tumbolia.org wrote: Hey, Does someone want to take a look at the CouchDB Wikipedia article? The opening

Re: Wikipedia article cleanup

2012-04-14 Thread Jonathan Porta
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

Re: Wikipedia article cleanup

2012-04-14 Thread Tim McNamara
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 rurd...@gmail.com wrote: Any better with this: Apache CouchDB, commonly referred to as CouchDB, is an

Re: Wikipedia article cleanup

2012-04-14 Thread Robert Newson
https://couchdb.apache.org/ :) On 14 April 2012 22:30, Tim McNamara paperl...@timmcnamara.co.nz wrote: 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

Re: Wikipedia article cleanup

2012-04-14 Thread Robert Newson
You could also pepper assertions like 'with funding from IBM' with [citation needed]. Which you won't get, because it isn't true. B. On 14 April 2012 22:43, Robert Newson rnew...@apache.org wrote: https://couchdb.apache.org/ :) On 14 April 2012 22:30, Tim McNamara paperl...@timmcnamara.co.nz

Re: Wikipedia article cleanup

2012-04-14 Thread Tim McNamara
I've spent some time this morning, working on the introduction and making from stylistic changes. I think the text is much more readable now. Some support on more supportive matters would be welcome. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=CouchDBdiff=487423562oldid=487381176 On 15 April 2012