Hi,

usually, the page Special:Version will tell.
E.g. http://mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Version

–Sabine

> On 2015.12.31, at 11:45, Nomad of Norad <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On 12/29/2015 6:58 AM, Bartosz Dziewoński wrote:
>> On 2015-12-29 09:32, Nomad of Norad wrote:
>>> Yeah, very old install of Mediawiki. Might be from a decade ago, my
>>> memory is hazy.  Presumably I can just install the newest version of
>>> Mediawiki and it will convert over the articles and login-accounts in
>>> the DB and stuff to whatever format the current one uses?  Or is there
>>> something I need to check first?
>> 
>> Yes, it should just work. Unless you're upgrading from MediaWiki version 
>> older than 1.5, in which case it might be a bit more involved (there were 
>> major schema changes in 1.5). The process is basically to extract the new 
>> files over the old ones and run the update.php maintenance script (or the 
>> web updater, if you don't have shell access and your wiki is small).
>> 
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading explains it all rather well, 
>> and also notes the various corner cases run into (but probably won't).
>> 
> 
> So, how do I determine which version I currently have?
> 
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