[Mediawiki-l] Upgrade from 1.3

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I upgraded my wiki from version 1.2.x to 1.6.7 this week without any
problems, here's what i did:
* make a backup :-)
* use Special:Export on the old wiki to create xml files including all the
revisions
* you can get a list through Special:Allpages and Special:Users (that's the
complete wiki for me)
* I installed a fresh wiki on a seperate server
* Imported the xml files through Special:Import as Sysop on the new wiki
* copied all stuff under 'upload' to 'images'
* exported and imported the sql of the old user table to keep everybody
happy
* ran the maintenance scripts to rebuild the images and index for search)
* Revert the main page to the correct version (this is they only filled page
from the new wiki)
* Copied the new wiki folder to the old server
* create a database in mysql on the new server and export and import the
full
database (all tables)

all works again, including the revisions done to all pages.

hope that helps.
Collin