B. M. Whealton wrote: > Hello all, > I had a somewhat small wiki with not a lot of content in it, so > when things went wrong with my mediawiki 1.15.x installation upgrade to > mediawiki 1.16.0, I just started with a fresh install. At about the > time that I figured out that mediawiki 1.16 was the latest version and I > was using 1.15.x, I also was running into an error when I added a couple > extensions. It was telling me that a cache table did not exist and this > was crashing my site, my wiki. I couldn't just create an empty table > because I had no idea how many columns were in that table. > Anyway, I thought with the new installation I could bring in > the content, the articles from the old installation. The problem is > that in looking at my exported db, a mysql db, that I exported from > phpmyAdmin and my cpanel, and from just browsing the db, I see that the > content of the articles are in binary files. So, it's not text that I > can just copy and paste into new articles - I only had about 10 of them. > Is there a way to get at those binary files that contain the text of > the articles, and the wiki code and somehow either import it into my new > wiki install or look at it and examine it in some way so that I could > copy and paste the content so as to recreate the articles. > I should note that I don't seem to have shell access, so I have to > use the cpanel and phpmyadmin. > Thanks for any tips, > Bruce
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Backing_up_a_wiki The old database plus rerunning the installer (temporarily move away LocalSettings.php) creates the new tables. For exporting a few pages, you can use Special:Export, then Special:Import. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
