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==The Options==
The obvious approach is to Export (with or without revision history) and then import. As the page count is likely around 500-600 (see below) this should be feasible, though importing though [[Special::Import]] isn't recommended for page counts greater than 100, due to timeout issue. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Importing_XML_dumps. Instead, one should use importDump.php [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:ImportDump.php] for larger imports. Note that mwdumper apparently doesn't work for imports in to MW1.31+, presumably because of database structure changes. Another option is to use pagefromfile.py [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/pagefromfile.py], which is a part of [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot Pywikibot].
Looking at [[Special:AllPages]], it does seem that some of the pages from the old wiki were previously 'imported' to the new wiki. I suspect that this was done page-by-page by the students, copying over the content. Nevertheless, there are pages with the same name but differing content, which is going to cause collisions. See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Import#Merging_histories_and_other_complications. pagefromfile.py has the option of adding the old content to the bottom of the new page (or the top), which would be helpful in many cases. However, a careful approach might be best. I could build lists of pages that have distinct names, common names, and common names but different import criteria.
