[Koha-bugs] [Bug 23073] wiki.koha-community.org needs updating to a later version

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=23073

--- Comment #14 from Thomas Dukleth <td-koha-bugs at agogme.com> ---
There is much to report about MediaWiki encoding data for MySQL in binary form
even in current versions of MediaWiki to compensate for the historic lack of
proper UTF8 support in MySQL.  I have some half started reports from weeks ago
about how I needed to build a Debian old version time machine to create the
MediaWiki binary tables properly for the version of MediaWiki from which we are
upgrading.  I will try to finish those reports when I am more awake.

Meanwhile, I have been pressing on with automating the whole process and I
should report something before falling asleep again. 

The following is the successful output from a script which I wrote to manage
the steps of database migration with a friendly configuration file, much error
checking, etc.  There are still a few elements to add such as the initial
pgrestore step and reading the configuration file from the Python script which
does the data migration as distinct from the Perl script which manages most of
the steps preparing for data migration and checks the results.

"If you have reached this point without errors and you
subsequently confirm that no errors or warnings have been logged,
then the Koha MediaWiki database should have been successfully
migrated.If you have reached this point without errors and you
subsequently confirm that no errors or warnings have been logged,
then the Koha MediaWiki database should have been successfully
migrated.

Remember that before any use MediaWiki and installed extensions
must be migrated to a version supported by your PHP version andand MySQL
version.

Remember that before any use, MediaWiki and installed extensions
must be upgraded to a version supported by your current PHP and
MySQL versions."

Depending on how awake I am later, I will test upgrading the test installation
of MediaWiki and extensions to their current versions.

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