Lorenzo Franceschini wrote:

Hi all, some months ago I installed MediaWiki locally for personal use. Now I'm trying to migrate my existing MediaWiki installation to a new machine, but I found a problem.

I used the `maintenance/dumpBackup.php` and `maintenance/importDump.php` scripts to transfer textual content from one database to another, and I copied over the images/ folder, containing all the uploaded files; the problem is that the new MediaWiki instance seems not be able to recognize them, since for example, the Special:Newimagespage is empty and existing links to media files in articles are broken.

Now my question is: what's the right way, if one, to import all the uploaded files into the new installation, possibly without losing all files' metadata information (as their descriptions) and restoring links in articles ?

Thanks in advance for any answer.

Use maintenance/importImages.php