currently I have this:Old Mediawiki 1.11.0 (from 2007!) on shared webhosting (so no shell access) with about 200 articles and many thousand spam articles I deleted via the Webinterface (but they are still saved in the MySQL-database which is about 80MB).I want to move it to my own server (with root access) using the current Mediawiki release with SQlite. What would be the best way to archive this?In a first attempt I tried to move the Mediawiki 1.11.0 and the database dump to a temporary VPS running Ubuntu 14.04 with Apache and MySQL. I couldn't get the old Mediawiki 1.11.0 to run on the new server since the PHP versions differ a lot, the old Mediawiki apparently used Namespaces as a variable name which conflict with the new PHP namespaces, SpamBlocklist extension used deprecated pass-by-reference and many other issues. I would be able to install Ubuntu 12.04, but I guess that PHP-Version is still too new. My VPS provider doesn't offer a Ubunbu 10.04 or older template.What are my options? I want to start over the wiki without all the spam article revisions in the database, but I would like to keep the revisions of the real articles. Can I just extract the new Mediawiki release and point it to the old database? Or should I update the Mediawiki on the shared webhosting to a newer version first (remember: no shell access, 80MB database and likely restrictive PHP timeout settings)?
How do I upgrade a seven year old version of MediaWiki to the current version and migrate from MySql to SQlite?
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