Michael thank you so much, this good stuff to know. I will work on getting those Admin rights or getting some help. Also I was wondering if I create a new wiki from 1.14 do you recommend setting up the SVN repository if I plan to upgrade in the coming months or years? I don't know much about how this should be setup for the wiki. Do you have any wiki resources I should check out, so I can become a better admin for wikimedia?
Thank you for your help /jentzen Michael Daly wrote: > Jentzen Mooney wrote: > > >> I has be brought to my attention that the wiki installed is >> mediawiki-1.6.8. I would like to using all the new included stuff in the >> current wiki version like API,etc... >> I have read about the trickiness of upgrading your wiki if you are below >> a certain version, plus I do not have Admin rights to the box that the >> wiki is installed on. >> > > Upgrading from 1.6.x to 1.14 shouldn't be difficult if you follow the > instructions. That's not a *really* early version. > > However, if you don't have admin rights and can't acquire them, > upgrading is not much of an option. > > >> How do I go about Transplanting the data that is in the current wiki to >> a newly installed wiki? >> > > If you create a new wiki from 1.14, you can take the data from the older > version and insert it into the new version. There are a few things you > have to do. > > 1 - Use mysqldump to dump the entire contents of the old database. See > the MySQL manual and the database backup information on mediawiki.org > for assistance. > 2 - When you install the new wiki, make sure you use the exact same > database prefix as was used in the old database. If you look at the > table names in the old database, you'll see the prefix. For example, if > the image table is called "xx_images", then "xx" is the prefix. > 3 - Once the new wiki is installed and basically functioning, restore > the old database that you backed up using mysqldump to the new database. > This will overwrite the entire DB's content with the old data. > 4 - Copy all the files from the /wiki/images/ directory hierarchy into > the same directories on the new wiki. > 5 - Run the update.php maintenance script. This will convert the 1.6.* > database you restored to the 1.14 formats etc. There's a bit of > information on this in a file called UPGRADE in the new wiki's root > directory > > > Test the wiki - it should be fine. BTW - you won't lose anything in > doing this, so categories and such should all be there. > > Mike > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
