On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Thomas Anderson andersonthomas@gmail.com wrote:
I had a local Mediawiki 1.7.1 installation on my client Debian 4.0 Etch computer. I bought a new computer and run Mediawiki 1.12.0 and Debian 5.0 Lenny on it. I've mounted the old harddrive on the new computer. What would be the easiest way to import all the old articles into my new installation, with preserved history? It's about 50 articles.
The easiest way would probably be to setup your new installation to use the old database and then run update.php from the maintenance/ subdirectory. That will upgrade your database to 1.12 and should run smoothly.