What are the pitfalls to watch out for when upgrading MediaWiki?

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Published on 2010-05-10T06:40:16Z Indexed on 2010/05/10 6:44 UTC
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We've got MediaWiki 1.13.2 and we'll soon be upgrading to the latest & greatest version (probably 1.16). We've got lots of extensions installed (for which we'll probably also need to get the latest versions) and we've done some minor configuring (e.g. adding new edit buttons).

What should we watch out for during the upgrade? And what should we test? Does anyone have any experience of things that went wrong?

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