[Mediawiki-l] Howto upgrade from 1.7 to current release

[Florian Poeck (EDV) - Kniel System-Electronic GmbH]

Hello,

What i am using at the moment:
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At the moment i am using an old Debian Server which hosts our local 
MediaWiki-Farm.
So basicly just several wikis.
This wiki is based on Debian's apt sources  -> old release -> 1.7

Target:
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Switch those wikis to a new Ubuntu-Server with a current MediaWiki build 
from scratch.
I guess the main advantage is having a up-to-date release and several 
functions 1.7 was limited in.


Unfortunaly i am not really sure how-to handle this switch/update/upgrade.
i.e. I assume the MySQL tables have changed

So what is the best way to move this old 1.7 based wiki-content to a new 
server with the current release ?
Is there a public documentation for such updates ?
Any additional links or similar you can recommend ?


Best regards
Florian