Alex Le Bek wrote:
I am moving a wiki from one server to another and
would like to upgrade at
the same time (from mediawiki-1.9.3 to mediawiki-1.10.1). Can this be done
by using the special page Export to XML of the old site and then using the
special page Import facility on 1.10.1 or will there be problems with the
XML tagging? (Would the HTML markup be fully preserved also?)
If the move+upgrade can't be done like this I assume I have to upgrade the
1.9.3 wiki version first, then mysqldump it before importing into the new
database.
Thanks
Alex
You can happily import pages exported on previous versions. But keep in
mind that Special:Export doesn't export *everything*. Notably the users,
logs, deleted pages... and other information which can be recreated
(page links, categories...). You're better upgrading and moving dbs.
If you still want to go that way, instead of the Special pages, use the
scripts on maintenance to do the same (using mwdumper instead of the
import script is much faster, but you'll need to populate the links at
another stop).