[Mediawiki-l] User migration

[Chad]

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Stephen Berg (Contractor)
<stephen.berg.ctr at nrlssc.navy.mil> wrote:
> I'm rebuilding a wiki that was previously on 1.5.6.  I have a good mysql
> dump of the database but trying to use that didn't work so well.  What I
> ended up doing was a fresh install on the server with mw 1.18 and
> exported/imported all the pages.  (It's not a big wiki).  The problem
> now is getting user accounts migrated to the new wiki.  I've looked at
> the mysqldump's from both versions and there's some big differences.
>
> I did attempt to run a manual "INSERT INTO blah blah" on the new server
> using the format I could discern from the dump, and the user account I
> created was indeed added.  But any attempt to login failed.  Tried to
> "email new password" and the wiki said there is no user by that name.
>
> How can I cleanly migrate the user accounts from the old 1.5.6 to the
> new 1.18?  The few references I've seen to extensions that might do this
> all seem to be out of date so I'm a little wary to attempt them.
>

After doing a backup of your 1.5.x wiki, you should update the files to
1.18 and then run update.php from the command line.

-Chad