http://dablog.ulcc.ac.uk/2010/03/16/948/
The PICT project is pretty much over, but I can steal a few moments out of my day every now and then to do a bit of house keeping, try out a new plugin and maybe even blog about it.
Inspired by Rob Sanderson’s lightening talk at dev8D on Memento I decided to go for the bounty offered for writing a memento client. My tack was to enable a mediawiki instance to handle the Accept-Date protocol using an existing plugin. Then to write a little PICT tool that supplied a user interface by which users could specify a date and browse their PICT enabled mediawiki “from the past”… spooky!
Thanks to getting nowhere near the deadline (those involved with this project will be grinning at that), I got nowhere near the prize, but I did finish a prototype plugin and threw it up on a mediawiki instance for another project: CLASM-demo. CLASM is the name of project not a piece of conjurers’ onomatopoeia, so click on that link to see the PICT-memento client in action. A wiki with more pages would have been a better example, but at least it does have a lot of revisions.
