Lorenzo Franceschini wrote: > Hi all, some months ago I installed MediaWiki locally for personal use. > Now I'm trying to migrate my existing MediaWiki installation to a > new machine, but I found a problem. > > I used the `maintenance/dumpBackup.php` and `maintenance/importDump.php` > scripts to transfer textual content from one database to another, > and I copied over the images/ folder, containing all the uploaded files; > the problem is that the new MediaWiki instance seems not be able > to recognize them, since for example, the Special:Newimagespage is empty > and existing links to media files in articles are broken. > > Now my question is: what's the right way, if one, to import all the > uploaded files into the new installation, possibly without losing all > files' metadata information (as their descriptions) and restoring links > in articles ? > > Thanks in advance for any answer.
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