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Help page in my old wiki was replaced by mediawiki help page when new version was installed

5 comments • 07:49, 19 June 2017 6 years ago

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2600:6C4E:E7F:E831:25C5:91DD:99C4:F4D7 (talkcontribs)

The help page in my wiki has been replaced by mediawiki help page. I can't find my old page anywhere.

16:15, 12 June 2017 6 years ago

2003:72:6D16:1900:B0D7:3203:E08E:FE61 (talkcontribs)

A MediaWiki upgrade does nt modify page contents. The page must have been changed by a user of the wiki - if you want to, you can undo the changes to get the old version back.

18:29, 12 June 2017 6 years ago

2600:6C4E:E7F:E831:B0CE:CF6E:6523:9523 (talkcontribs)

I kept a copy of the old database.

Is there a way to just pull out that specific page from that old database?

03:22, 13 June 2017 6 years ago

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Ciencia Al Poder (talkcontribs)

Try first to get it from the Page history. If it's not there (and I highly doubt MediaWiki has deleted anything during upgrade), you could query the text on the old database looking in the Page table, page_latest field contains the ID of the latest revision, which you should query on the Revision table and then get the rev_text_id to query on the Text table. Note that you won't get any visible text if you have $wgCompressRevisions set to true.

09:51, 13 June 2017 6 years ago