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This document provides information about MediaWiki systems that have native Memento support.

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MediaWiki Systems with Native Memento Support

Archive Content

MediaWiki systems can be made Memento compliant by installing the Memento MediaWiki plugin. With the plugin installed, the set of all versions of all wiki articles constitute a Memento compliant archive.

Memento Protocol Information

With the the Memento MediaWiki plugin installed, a MediaWiki system is accessible via the Memento "Time Travel for the Web" protocol. Hence, it supports datetime negotiation to access a version of a web resource as it existed at a specific moment in time. Check out the brief introduction to Memento if you are not familiar with it.

Let's take the DCMI wiki at http://wiki.dublincore.org as an example. Presuming the Original Resource (current version) is http://http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php/User_Guide, then the resources that are relevant for the Memento protocol are:

Integration with the Original Dataset

With the Memento MediaWiki plugin installed, responses to HTTP requests for the "generic" URI of an article (e.g. , http://http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php/User_Guide) will contain a Link header with a "timegate" link that points at the TimeGate for the article.