[Mediawiki-l] Upgrade from 1.3

[Markus Fischer]

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Hi,

just reporting how I solved this, unfortunately not in an elegant way. I
 separately installed 1.6.* and manully hand-copied all pages, only
using the history (not that in important in this case).

- From all what I've read on web, mailing list and update documentation I
didn't had the feeling that an upgrade from such an old version was a
good idea. Since the >100 pages only took me about 90 minutes to
transfer it was ok for me.

- - Markus

Markus Fischer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running a pretty old version, 1.3.9, and would like to upgrade to
> the most current version, 1.6.6 as of now.
> 
> I'm not yet sure, but as it seems I've to do the upgrade in steps:
> 
> * upgraed to 1.4
> * upgrade to 1.5
> * finally upgrade to 1.6.6
> 
> Is this true or can I immidiately upgrade to 1.6.6?
> 
> For us only the articles/categories are really important. Users, etc.
> are not relevant for us. We don't use any advanced stuff like templates
> or similiar things and there are just some few uploads.
> 
> Is there another way to export all the MediaWiki content to a neutral
> format which can be important into the latest version?
> 
> thanks,
> - Markus
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