diff --git a/development/couchdb/slack-desc b/development/couchdb/slack-desc
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@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 # customary to leave one space after the ':' except on otherwise blank lines.
 
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-couchdb: Apache CouchDB is a RESTFul document-oriented database.
+couchdb: couchdb (RESTFul document-oriented database)
 couchdb:
 couchdb: Apache CouchDB is a document-oriented database that can be queried
 couchdb: and indexed in a MapReduce fashion using JavaScript. CouchDB also