If I had an separate wiki and a wikifarm (using shared tables for user and actor) and wanted to merge the separate wiki into the wikifarm, what would be the safest way to handle user account migration without any conflicts/data corruption? Is it even safe to renumber user ids?
Assume user ids for the separate wiki would conflict with existing wikifarm user ids. thinking at a minimum the following is required: 1. on wikifarm: halt account creations, set read only, and get max user id 2. on separate wiki: set wiki to read only, renumber all user ids (user, actor tables) starting at one past the current wikifarm max user id to avoid conflicts, run rebuildall.php & rebuildrecentchanges.php, create a database dump using mysqldump, and export a backup of localsettings.php 3. on wikifarm, add a new wiki (import localsettings.php) and import database dump of separate wiki then run update.php as required Thanks, Kevin _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
