Uo wiki migration

From UoWiki

• It seems that any of the pages transferred automatically from phpwiki to mediawiki with the script need to be edited and then saved to magically appear. No idea why.

• It turned out that in addition to the basic transfer of pages, an internal Wikimedia index needed to be reconstructed. Normally this index is updated as each page is created or edited. This would explain why pages suddenly became visible in searches after being altered.

• Naturally the internal workings of a wiki is something we rarely have to give any thought to, but thanks to the open discussion of others faced with similar problems we were able to locate and apply a solution. We just needed to run one of Mediawiki's maintenance scripts (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Maintenance_scripts); in our case rebuildtextindex.php.

 php rebuildtextindex.php

• The solution was simple enough. Most of the effort went into discovering the true nature of the problem.