andi:1325636080 wrote
The safest way is probably upgrading step by step using older releases.
I'm not sure if it's necessary to use *every* release as an intermediate step.
andi:1325636080 wrote
I'm not sure if the 2005 version even used UTF-8 already.
That was changed in between version 2005-01-16 and 2005-02-06, so needs to be taken care of.
A good start would be to have a look at
http://www.dokuwiki.org/old_changes and
http://www.dokuwiki.org/changes. As far as I know, every important change was indicated with an exclamation mark icon (
).
I might be wrong, but from what I understand and patchily remember, I would suggest upgrading in the following steps:
* first to *2005-02-06* (important change: utf8, see
http://www.dokuwiki.org/tips:utf8update)
* then to *2008-05-05* (important change: some upgrade plugins do the work for you, so after upgrading you probably need to wait a bit and definitely need to double check
?do=check)
* and finally to the *latest* version