From Student To Researcher...

From Student To Researcher...

In 2010, I decided to again study at the Old Dominion University Computer Science Department for better employment opportunities. After taking some classes, I realized that I did not merely want to take classes and earn a Master’s Degree, but also wanted to contribute knowledg...

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Avoiding Spoilers On MediaWiki Fan Sites Using Memento

Avoiding Spoilers On MediaWiki Fan Sites Using Memento

A variety of fan-based wikis about episodic fiction (e.g., television shows, novels, movies) exist on the World Wide Web. In this presentation, I detailed issues with using the Interent Archive to avoid spoilers.

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Potential MediaWiki Web Time Travel for Wayback Machine Visitors

Potential MediaWiki Web Time Travel for Wayback Machine Visitors

Over the past year, I’ve been working on the Memento MediaWiki Extension. In addition to trying to produce a decent product, we’ve also been trying to build support for the Memento MediaWiki Extension at WikiConference USA 2014. Recently, we’ve reached out via Twitter to rai...

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Bringing Web Time Travel to MediaWiki: An Assessment of the Memento MediaWiki Extension

Bringing Web Time Travel to MediaWiki: An Assessment of the Memento MediaWiki Extension

by Shawn M. Jones, Michael L. Nelson, Harihar Shankar, Herbert Van de Sompel

We have implemented the Memento MediaWiki Extension Version 2.0, which brings the Memento Protocol to MediaWiki, used by Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation. Test results show that the extension has a negligible impact on performance. Two 302 status code datetime negotiatio...

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WikiConference USA 2014 Trip Report

WikiConference USA 2014 Trip Report

Amid the smell of coffee and bagels, the crowd quieted down to listen to the opening by Jennifer Baek, who, in addition to getting us energized, also paused to recognize Ardrianne Wadewitz and Cythia Sheley-Nelson, two Wikipedians who had, after contributing greatly to the Wik...

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Using the Memento MediaWiki Extension to Avoid Spoilers

Using the Memento MediaWiki Extension to Avoid Spoilers

The rise in fan-based wikis allows fans to discuss TV shows and books in ways never before seen. Unfortunately, as fans, we have the problem of spoilers. In this talk I demonstrate how one can use the Memento MediaWiki Extension to avoid spoilers in fan wikis.

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Reconstructing the past with MediaWiki

Reconstructing the past with MediaWiki

The Internet Archive attempts to reconstruct web pages via snapshots (Mementos) that are taken of pages at various points in time. Many pages change more frequently than the Internet Archive can capture them, meaning that some revisions of a given web page are lost forever. Me...

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TimeGate Design Options For MediaWiki

TimeGate Design Options For MediaWiki

We’ve been working on the development, testing, and improvement of the Memento MediaWiki Extension. One of our principle concerns is performance. The Memento MediaWiki Extension supports all Memento concepts: Original Resource (URI-R) - in MediaWiki parlance referred to ...

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Yesterday's (Wiki) Page, Today's Image?

Yesterday's (Wiki) Page, Today's Image?

In 2010, I decided to again study at the Old Dominion University Computer Science Department for better employment opportunities. After taking some classes, I realized that I did not merely want to take classes and earn a Master’s Degree, but also wanted to contribute knowledg...

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Avoiding Spoilers with the Memento Mediawiki Extension

Avoiding Spoilers with the Memento Mediawiki Extension

In 2010, I decided to again study at the Old Dominion University Computer Science Department for better employment opportunities. After taking some classes, I realized that I did not merely want to take classes and earn a Master’s Degree, but also wanted to contribute knowledg...

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