On 2015-12-29 09:32, Nomad of Norad wrote:
Yeah, very old install of Mediawiki. Might be
from a decade ago, my
memory is hazy. Presumably I can just install the newest version of
Mediawiki and it will convert over the articles and login-accounts in
the DB and stuff to whatever format the current one uses? Or is there
something I need to check first?
Yes, it should just work. Unless you're upgrading from MediaWiki
version older than 1.5, in which case it might be a bit more involved
(there were major schema changes in 1.5). The process is basically to
extract the new files over the old ones and run the update.php
maintenance script (or the web updater, if you don't have shell access
and your wiki is small).
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading explains it all rather
well, and also notes the various corner cases run into (but probably
won't).