Author: tom[at]compton.nu
[Added to the original trac issue at 2.51pm, Thursday, 10th April 2008]

If somebody can give me simple, guaranteed to work and not f**k up our configuration instructions then I will do my best.

Note that anything which starts by telling you to back up by following the "simple" mediawiki instructions for backing up is, by definition, not simple.

Author: edoardo[at]edoardomarascalchi.it
[Added to the original trac issue at 2.54pm, Thursday, 10th April 2008]

If you want i can ask to an italian mediawiki from WikiMediaItalia to help you about the upgrade.

Author: edoardo[at]edoardomarascalchi.it
[Added to the original trac issue at 2.56pm, Thursday, 10th April 2008]

TomH wrote:
"guaranteed to work"

hey.. WTF.. when did you see a "guaranteed to work" procedure in the IT world?
I just know Play & Pray procedures... :)

Author: tom[at]compton.nu
[Added to the original trac issue at 3.00pm, Thursday, 10th April 2008]

The problem is that PHP applications seem to be entirely based around a very high level of praying... Mostly because they almost always mix up the static program code and data that comes with the application with the configuration information and user generated data so that when you do an upgrade you're never sure that you're accidentally overwriting something important that has been changed.

Given that the upgrade instructions are usually something like "untar this new tarball over your existing installation" any sensible system administrator immediately runs away screaming, especially when they realise that the existing installation includes all sorts of configuration changes made by many people over a long period of time.

Author: tom[at]compton.nu
[Added to the original trac issue at 5.09pm, Sunday, 13th April 2008]

MediaWiki has been updated to 1.12.0 as requested.