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.
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.
I need help exporting a small wiki, setting up the new wiki, and transferring everything. I am not comfortable doing this myself but an experienced person could probably take care of the whole kit-and-kaboodle in an hour, and maybe a further hour for extension checking. Current version is 1.11 I think.
If someone has an interest please contact me backchannel (I love saying that) and we'll talk turkey, or at least some kind of edible fowl.
It is for a non-profit. I will be paying for this out of pocket.
This is very easy and well documented on the mediawiki.org site. Start with testing your ability to create a backup and import it into a new wiki. Once you see how easy that is you'll be more comfortable following the rest of the instructions.
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Steve VanSlyck s.vanslyck@spamcop.netwrote:
I need help exporting a small wiki, setting up the new wiki, and transferring everything. I am not comfortable doing this myself but an experienced person could probably take care of the whole kit-and-kaboodle in an hour, and maybe a further hour for extension checking. Current version is 1.11 I think.
If someone has an interest please contact me backchannel (I love saying that) and we'll talk turkey, or at least some kind of edible fowl.
It is for a non-profit. I will be paying for this out of pocket.
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Hi Steve, just a couple of weeks ago, I was still having a tremendous phobia to upgrade my wiki from Version 1.10 to 1.14. Couldn't work all the time but fortunately, I was trying it on my new webhost and therefore my original website was unharmed.
Took a dressing-down from Michael Daly to get me on my way. This is now history. Actually, it is very easy, but it took me months to do it. Once you know it, it is very, very easy.
You will always need to upgrade your wiki, so it is good to learn it and do it yourself. Didn't take me more than 15 minutes for a 1,000-odd article wiki. What is your exact problem? Hopefully I can help, and you can save your money.
PM Poon
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 1:43 AM, Steve VanSlyck s.vanslyck@spamcop.netwrote:
I need help exporting a small wiki, setting up the new wiki, and transferring everything. I am not comfortable doing this myself but an experienced person could probably take care of the whole kit-and-kaboodle in an hour, and maybe a further hour for extension checking. Current version is 1.11 I think.
If someone has an interest please contact me backchannel (I love saying that) and we'll talk turkey, or at least some kind of edible fowl.
It is for a non-profit. I will be paying for this out of pocket.
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£ukasz Garczewski wrote:
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Thomas Anderson andersonthomas@gmail.com wrote:
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.
Alternatively, you could upgrade the old DB by running the 1.12 version of upgrade.php against it and then backup the DB using mysqldump. Restore that to the new DB. 6 of one, 1/2 dozen of the other.
Either of these will wipe out anything in your new DB, so if there's a significant amount of data in there currently, you'd need to export that. It will come down to which has few pages to export as to which version you choose to export via Special:Export.
Personally, I'd recommend upgrading the 1.12 version to 1.14 before starting this.
Mike
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