MediaWiki Upgrade January 2014

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Prior to updating the mediawiki, a few things need to be determined.

First, read MediaWiki Upgrade April 2011 for notes on the last mediawiki upgrade.

Determine the current version of MediaWiki. You can find the MediaWiki version on your server in the file includes/DefaultSettings.php. It should be a variable assigned somewhere in the first 50 lines or so.

Determine the MySQL version. Since the last upgrade the MySQL server was independently updated, as was PHP, Apache, and the OS (kernel_