£ukasz Garczewski wrote:
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Thomas Anderson
<andersonthomas(a)gmail.com> wrote:
What would be the easiest way to import all the
old articles
into my new installation, with preserved history? It's about 50
articles.
The easiest way would probably be to setup your new installation to
use the old database and then run update.php from the maintenance/
subdirectory. That will upgrade your database to 1.12 and should run
smoothly.
Alternatively, you could upgrade the old DB by running the 1.12 version
of upgrade.php against it and then backup the DB using mysqldump.
Restore that to the new DB. 6 of one, 1/2 dozen of the other.
Either of these will wipe out anything in your new DB, so if there's a
significant amount of data in there currently, you'd need to export
that. It will come down to which has few pages to export as to which
version you choose to export via Special:Export.
Personally, I'd recommend upgrading the 1.12 version to 1.14 before
starting this.
Mike