Congratulations on this milestone, Shawn, and thanks to you and your team for all your hard work. :)
On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 10:21 PM, Shawn Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > All, > > Thanks to the feedback of developers from this list (wikitech-l), version > 2.0.0 of the Memento time travel Extension for MediaWiki has been released. > The extension can be downloaded via [1]. Information on the extension is > available at [2]. A demonstration wiki equipped with the extension is > available at [3]. > > The extension works with Memento clients [4] to allow one to browse pages > on an installation of MediaWiki as if it were some datetime in the past. > This has numerous applications, from avoiding spoilers [5] to studying the > changes in law. > > Recently, at WikiConference USA 2014, we presented our experiences > reconstructing the past using MediaWiki [6, 7], and demonstrated using the > extension to avoid spoilers [8, 9]. > > The extension is fully compliant with RFC 7089 [10], which specifies the > Memento protocol. The effort was supported in part by the Andrew W. Mellon > Foundation and is a joint effort between Old Dominion University and Los > Alamos National Laboratory. > > The Memento protocol extends HTTP to support content negotiation with > time, allowing one to view past versions of web pages. This document [11] > provides insight into the added value that the protocol brings to > MediaWiki. Videos [12], and [13] show Memento at work in the web at large. > The latter pays significant attention to temporal navigation in Wikipedia, > and hence illustrates that the Memento Team considers time travel in > MediaWiki platforms a major use case of the protocol. Video [14] shows how > one could use the Memento MediaWiki Extension to avoid spoilers in > fan-based wikis. > > The Memento protocol is currently used by major web archives [15] and > supported by the International Internet Preservation Consortium [16]. > > Once again, the Memento team is appreciative of all of the feedback from > the Wikimedia team, and just because we have reached 2.0.0 doesn’t mean > that we don’t seek additional input in order to improve the extension. > > On behalf of the Memento Team, > > Shawn M. Jones > Graduate Research Assistant > Department of Computer Science > Old Dominion University > > Email: [email protected] > Research group: http://ws-dl.blogspot.com > Twitter: @shawnmjones > > ———— > [1] https://github.com/hariharshankar/mediawiki/releases/tag/v2.0.0 > [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Memento > [3] http://ws-dl-05.cs.odu.edu/demo/ > [4] http://bit.ly/memento-for-chrome > [5] > http://ws-dl.blogspot.com/2013/12/2013-12-18-avoiding-spoilers-with.html > [6] > http://wikiconferenceusa.org/wiki/Submissions:Reconstructing_the_past_with_Mediawiki:_Programmatic_Issues_and_Solutions > [7] > http://www.slideshare.net/shawnmjones/reconstructing-the-past-with-media-wiki-35333484 > [8] > http://wikiconferenceusa.org/wiki/Submissions:Using_the_Memento_Mediawiki_Extension_to_Avoid_Spoilers > [9] > http://www.slideshare.net/shawnmjones/using-the-memento-mediawiki-extension-to-avoid-spoilers-35333526 > [10] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7089 > [11] http://www.mementoweb.org/wikipedia/ > [12] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_70lQPOOIg > [13] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtZHKeFwjzk > [14] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciClYjTnscs > [15] http://mementoweb.org/depot/ > [16] http://netpreserve.org > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
