[Wikitech-l] Study on the user base for the Memento MediaWiki Extension

Hi folks, As we improve the Memento MediaWiki Extension, we also search for information on where and how it can be used. I had written a blog post last December talking about its use in helping users of fan sites avoid spoilers. [1] Recently, we’ve done a study using anonymized logs for the Wayback Machine and discovered that there are a potential 168,000 requests per day at the Wayback Machine that could benefit from use of the Memento MediaWiki Extension, 132,000 of those for Wikipedia alone. [2] [1] http://ws-dl.blogspot.com/2013/12/2013-12-18-avoiding-spoilers-with.html [2] http://ws-dl.blogspot.com/2014/07/2014-07-08-potential-mediawiki-web-time.h… Cheers, Shawn M. Jones Graduate Research Assistant Department of Computer Science Old Dominion University Email: sjone(a)cs.odu.edu Research group: http://ws-dl.blogspot.com Twitter: @shawnmjones