WMUK wiki migration/tech

This page gather technical details about the wiki migration. Please don't edit this page and put comments on the talk page.

New wiki is available at http://wiki.wikimedia.org.uk. At the end of the migration, http://www.wikimedia.org.uk and http://wikimedia.org.uk will also point to it. http://uk.wikimedia.org which is the current instance hosted at the WMF will be put in read only during the migration and kep online for a few monthes.

Notices

Pre-migration old wiki notice (From dd/mm/yyyy to dd/mm/yyyy)

You are on Wikimedia UK's wiki, a website that is currently hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. The hosting for this site will be migrated from the Foundation's datacenter to the Wikimedia UK's over the last week-end of September (28-29th September). It will not be possible to migrate non-public account information. This includes watch lists, account preferences, contact email, or current password for registered users. We will recreate 'stub-accounts' on the migrated site and will communicate to you your new password if you activate "Enable email from other users" in your user profile now! Want to know more?

Post-migration old wiki notice

You are visiting an archived read-only version of Wikimedia UK's website. This wiki was formerly hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation before being migrated to Wikimedia UK's server hosting in September 2013. Following migration the site url changed from http://uk.wikimedia.org to http://wiki.wikimedia.org.uk and this is where the current, editable version of the site is available. Registered users are required to re-provide their contact email to info@wikimedia.org.uk if they were unable to activate "Enable email from other users" prior to the migration in order to receive their new log in details. Want to know more?

Post-migration new wiki notice

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Data migration

Mirror WMF dump

mirrorWmfDumps.pl --projectCode=ukwikimedia --databaseName=wiki --installPath=/var/www/wiki/w/ --databaseUsername=foo
--databasePassword=bar --withPageLinks --withMetaPages --withExternalLinks --withHistory --withSiteStats --withLogging 
--withPageRestrictions --withUserGroups

Mirror images

mirrorImageFiles.pl --host=uk.wikimedia.org --path=w --directory=/var/www/wiki/w/

Re-create users

listAllUsers.pl --host=uk.wikimedia.org --path=w > users
cat users | createMediawikiUsers.pl --path=/var/www/wiki/w/ --database=wiki --databaseUsername=foo --databasePassword=bar > userpasswords