On 3/15/21 6:32 PM, Chris Cason wrote:
> On 16/03/2021 04:04, Ash Holsenback wrote:
>> On 3/15/21 11:11 AM, Chris Cason wrote:
>> last time i touched wikidocgen i was running php7 on my machine so i 
>> have /some/ confidence, however i've not kept up with mediawiki 
>> changes so i don't know what's in store for that... i'm most fearful 
>> of table name changes. didn't that bite us in the ass last time we 
>> upgraded?
> 
> Your memory is likely better than mine, so perhaps there were. I hope 
> there'd be some sort of upgrade script if so.
> 
>> we /do/ have a most recent sql dump correct?
> 
> We have a backup of the DB (not a dump specifically, just the physical 
> DB directory). While I have yet to bring up mysql I don't anticipate 
> problems.
> 
>> on my machine in a while. do you think there's some value in seeing if 
>> i can get that running to see if we can even get it to import?
> 
> Yes, that would be great. I'll get the DB back running and do a dump of 
> all the tables once the machine has been moved back to the data center 
> (hopefully shortly). At the moment it's sitting in an office and has 
> limited outbound bandwidth.
> 
> -- Chris

ok i did some poking around... first off i'm 2 minor rev's behind on my 
opsys and i need to keep it there for the time being, so i think 
mediawiki v1.33 is the best i can do (v1.35 is the current supported)... 
mainly because i'm at php7.2.5

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_version_history

worth continuing?

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