Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE added a comment.
I would say that MediaWiki export and import, or SQL dumps, are a better way to migrate data between Wikibase instances than some Wikibase-specific features. Both of these should also preserve the edit history. (Wikibase doesn’t allow import of entities by default, but there seems to be an `allowEntityImport` setting that can be set to allow it, though I confess I haven’t tried it.) Have you tried MediaWiki’s XML export/import, or experienced problems with it? > I am not excited about MySQL dumps as the interchange format, because I worry that it ties the dump to a specific version of Wikibase - say I have a dump of my wikibase from running 1.34, but WBStack is running Wikibase 1.36 - will I be able to import my backup into WBstack? Does a hosted provider really want to import sites using MySQL dumps? Since MediaWiki supports updating from older versions (within limits: see T259771 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T259771>), I assume newer MediaWiki+Wikibase versions can deal with SQL dumps produced by older versions. (Probably not the other way around, though.) That said, I haven’t tried this myself. (However, I know for certain that Wikibase is able to read page //content// that uses older serialization formats – after all, we still have such revisions in Wikidata.) TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T247220 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE Cc: Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE, Addshore, Samantha_Alipio_WMDE, erik_s_paulson, Aklapper, Invadibot, maantietaja, Akuckartz, Nandana, Lahi, Gq86, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, LawExplorer, _jensen, rosalieper, Scott_WUaS, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Mbch331
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