[MediaWiki-l] Merging two existing wikis in a wiki-farm?

2014-10-17 Thread Katharina Wolkwitz
Hello everybody, I've been set the task to merge two existing wikis in a wiki-farm in order to consolidate the two separate virtual servers the wikis live on at the moment into one single virtual server. Now I'm not sure whether this idea is even feasible and if it were, which kind of

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Merging two existing wikis in a wiki-farm?

2014-10-17 Thread Sigbert Klinke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, do you intend to share some stuff (e.g images) between the wikis? For my wikis it was not the case, thus I set up several wikis in parallel (in different directories) in one virtual server. For me it has also the advantage that updating the wikis

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Merging two existing wikis in a wiki-farm?

2014-10-17 Thread Benjamin Lees
You probably don't need to worry about the farm/family stuff. Just move your second wiki onto the server you're keeping: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Moving_a_wiki On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 3:08 AM, Katharina Wolkwitz wolkw...@fh-swf.de wrote: Hello everybody, I've been set the task

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Merging two existing wikis in a wiki-farm?

2014-10-17 Thread Katharina Wolkwitz
Hi again, thanks for the quick answer! I think your proposition is just the solution for my problem too. :-) I was so blinded by the possibility of the wikis sharing the sourcecode that I didn't even think of the chance of a strictly separated installation and its advantages. And when one update