Monday, October 24, 2005

Upgrade sooner rather than later

I was hoping to leave the ukcider wiki on mediawiki 1.3.9 while installing 1.5 for the new project, but now I think some of the advantages are pressing:


  • bug and security fixes

  • potential for anti-spam plugins

  • easier skin customisation

  • editable navigation side bar.




Since it’s a live database, I have to make a backup copy of it first and use that to create a testbed environment where I can try out the upgrade safely, since it’s not just a matter of uploading new software, but restructuring the existing tables in the database as well, and there is no guarantee this will work with all combinations of upgrade.

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