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@@ -1,18 +1,17 @@ This file provides an overview of the MediaWiki upgrade process. For help with specific problems, check -* the documentation at http://meta.wikimedia.org * the documentation at http://www.mediawiki.org * the mediawiki-l mailing list archive at - http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l + http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/ * the bug tracker at http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org for information and workarounds to common issues. == Overview == -Documentation on upgrading to 1.7 can also be found at -http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading_to_1.7. +Comprehensive documentation on upgrading to the latest version of the software +is available at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading_MediaWiki. === Consult the release notes === @@ -73,13 +72,30 @@ procedure, and especially after upgrading; check that page views and edits work normally and that special pages continue to function, etc. and correct errors and quirks which reveal themselves. +== Upgrading from 1.8 wikis == + +MediaWiki 1.9 and later no longer keep default localized message text +in the database; 'MediaWiki:'-namespace pages that do not exist in the +database are simply transparently filled-in on demand. + +The upgrade process will delete any 'MediaWiki:' pages which are left +in the default state (last edited by 'MediaWiki default'). This may +take a few moments, similar to the old initial setup. + +Note that the large number of deletions may cause older edits to expire +from the list on Special:Recentchanges, although the deletions themselves +will be hidden by default. (Click "show bot edits" to list them.) + + +See RELEASE-NOTES for more details about new and changed options. + + == Upgrading from 1.7 wikis == $wgDefaultUserOptions now contains all the defaults, not only overrides. If you're setting this as a complete array(), you may need to change it to set only specific items as recommended in DefaultSettings.php. - == Upgrading from 1.6 wikis == $wgLocalTZoffset was in hours, it is now using minutes. @@ -110,7 +126,7 @@ but note that the old directory hashes will no longer be valid, so you will also have to move them to new destinations. Message changes: -* A number of additional UI messages have been chagned from HTML to +* A number of additional UI messages have been changed from HTML to wikitext, and will need to be manually fixed if customized. === Configuration changes from 1.4.x: === @@ -189,8 +205,7 @@ http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/mysqldump.html WARNING: If using MySQL 4.1.x, mysqldump's charset conversion may in some cases damage data in your wiki. If necessary, set the charset -option to 'latin1' to avoid the conversion. Fore more info see: -http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2004-November/026359.html +option to 'latin1' to avoid the conversion. For general help on pg_dump: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/app-pgdump.html |