Manual talk:Upgrading to 1.12

Should I upgrade my wiki if it is 1.12.0rc? What changes was done form 1.12.0rc to 1.12.0?


 * They're listed in the release notes. --brion 16:14, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

But those release notes are almost the same...


 * You probably always should upgrade to the latest stable release, but you get to decide whether or not this upgrade is worth the trouble. Emufarmers 19:38, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Summer ???
Need update introduction... --Kaganer 18:52, 21 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Done. Emufarmers 19:38, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks ;) --Kaganer 20:00, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Wasn't this supposed to be the WINTER release? 24.62.142.174 13:51, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
 * That's why I wrote "long-awaited." Aren't I cheeky? —Emufarmers(T 01:06, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Does NPOV also aply to this wiki? Because, Southern Hemisphere may object... Av16ar 11:20, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
 * The quarterly updates are referred to by the seasons of their release in many places (including the release announcements). —Emufarmers(T 22:00, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Title Protection?
I'm getting a bizarre bug whenever I'm trying to create a new page. This is severe enough that if other folks were experiencing it, I'd expect it to have already been reported. Thus, I'm thinking it's something to do with my own installation... Problem is, I'm not sure where to go for help in troubleshooting it. I'm hosted on Dreamhost, and just used their "one-click" upgrade process (MediaWiki 1.12.0; PHP 5.2.3 (cgi-fcgi); MySQL 5.0.24a-standard-log). Now, whenever I try to create a new page, I get this error: ''Database error  A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was: (SQL query hidden)  from within function "Database::select". MySQL returned error "1146: Table 'mywiki.wiki_protected_titles' doesn't exist (wiki.URL.com)".'' I cannot create new pages. I did some searches in Bugzilla, and came up with only this: (bug 12486) Protected titles now give a warning for privileged editors. HELP? Should I create a Bug in Bugzilla? Is there a forum I should go to instead? I turned off all my extensions and got the same error. Advice, please? --24.16.13.116 21:50, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
 * You need to run the update script; that kind of defeats the purpose of the one-click install, but it's usually better to just maintain software yourself (unless you tend to forget!). —Emufarmers(T 01:06, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Totally defeats the purpose. Funny how the Dreamhost panel doesn't explain this. I'm sorry, next time I'll complain first to Dreamhost.  I'll go be a moron over there now.  D'oh. --24.16.13.116 01:20, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

patch-usernewtalk2.sql does no exist
I have an error upgrading from 1.9.1. becaouse of the file "patch-usernewtalk2.sql" (this file is not in the ZIP). APACHE PHP 5 MYSQL 5 (windows xp) I have downgrading.

Creating user_newtalk table... Warning: fopen(D:\webapache\wiki/maintenance/archives/patch-usernewtalk2.sql) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in D:\webapache\wiki\includes\Database.php on line 2212 Could not open "D:\webapache\wiki/maintenance/archives/patch-usernewtalk2.sql".

upgrade from 1.7 doesn't work
If you get # php update.php MediaWiki 1.7.0 Updater Fatal error: Call to undefined function wfWikiID in /usr/share/mediawiki/maintenance/update.php on line 43

it maybe that you've still traces left of you old mediawiki installation. Check $IP in LocalSettings.php.

-Herbert, Sat Jun 21 03:27:11 CEST 2008