On 12/11/2009, at 1:13 PM, Daniel Kinzler wrote: > Hi all > > The Memento Project <http://www.mementoweb.org/> (including the Los > Alamos > National Laboratory (!) featuring Herbert Van de Sompel of OpenURL > fame) is > proposing a new HTTP header, X-Accept-Datetime, to fetch old > versions of a web > resource. They already wrote a MediaWiki extension for this > <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Memento> - which would of > course be > particularly interesting for use on Wikipedia. > > Do you think we could have this for Wikimedia project? I think that > would be > very nice indeed. I recall that ways to look at last weeks main page > have been > discussed before, and I see several issues: > > * the timestamp isn't a unique identifier, multiple revisions > *might* have the > same timestamp. We need a tiebreak (rev_id would be the obvious > choice). > * templates and images also need to be "time warped". It seems like > the > extension does not address this at the moment. For flagged revisions > we do have > such a machnism, right? Could that be used here? > * Squids would need to know about the new header, and by pass the > cache when > it's used. > > so, what do you think? what does it take? Can we point them to the > missing bits?
This got written up in New Scientist today, for those who are interested. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18158-timetravelling-browsers-navigate-the-webs-past.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news -- Andrew Garrett [email protected] http://werdn.us/ _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
