Thread:Project:Current issues/Easy browsing of old documentation

Hi all. Recently I uploaded to Gerrit the Extension:TimeMachine. The idea for the extension came while developing for an old MediaWiki installation. Because the installation was so old, and I couldn't update, I was constantly checking mediawiki.org in search for old documentation, to see what worked and what not. Every time I had to go to the history tab of a page, go back to 2008 (when the version I was developing for was current), and look. So I thought: wouldn't it be great if I could just browse the wiki as it was in 2008? Then I thought this may be generally useful, so I created the extension to do so. I think that this functionality would be particularly useful in mediawiki.org, for users who need to browse old documentation. I suggest and propose that we improve the extension enough so that it can be deployed in mediawiki.org, and that we add a special page (or something similar) that allows users to select a MediaWiki version, and browse the wiki as it was when that version was current.