Hello,
I have a 1.4.15 installation that I would like to upgrade to 1.5 or 1.6. I am having difficulty with the update.php script.
I am able to convert my existing database to UTF-8, however when I run the update.php script I get an error about there not being a table named 'text.' I can take the table definition from the tables.sql file, create the 'text' table by hand and then the update.php script will complete successfully. The problem is that after I do this my wiki appears empty.
It was suggested on the #mediawiki irc channel that I have a corrupt database from a prior botched upgrade. This is certainly possible, although I thought we started our wiki with the 1.4.x series and I do not remember specifics about any previous database conversion.
What can I do to successfully upgrade this wiki? At this point I am wondering if my only option is to use the Special:Export capability and use that to create a 'new' wiki.
The current version works fine, but I just had a situation come up where the static HTML export would have been _really_ nice.
Thanks,
-Will