Re: [gentoo-user] mediawiki upgrade 1.4-1.7

[Trenton Adams]

Yeah, my DB gets dumped every day automatically.

I think I had already made my database utf-8 originally.  I ran the
update.php, and everything seemed to work just fine.  Hopefully there
aren't some small pieces of data somewhere that are messed up.

Thanks.

On 11/20/06, kashani <kashani-list@××××××××.net> wrote:
> Trenton Adams wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I'm wondering if anyone has upgraded their media wiki from 1.4 to 1.7
> > before.  If I could get it to 1.5, I think the rest of the migration
> > could be done by going from 1.5 to 1.6 to 1.7, as they have upgrade
> > scripts for those.  However, I tried the 1.5 upgrade script at one
> > point, and it failed miserably, though I can't remember on what.
> >
> > I'd appreciate any help.
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> IIRC the upgrade from 1.4 to 1.5 involved messing around with the db
> specifically moving to utf8 and there were no scripts in the package.
> However going to mediawiki's site turned up some how-to's. I would
> recommend dumping your db to safe a place before running any scripts
> against it.
>
> kashani
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