Hi all. Newbie here. I've setup up MediaWiki on OS X using the arcane instructions here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Running_MediaWiki_on_Mac_OS_X The Wiki works fine. Tested it by creating pages and uploading images etc. Then I wanted to import articles from Wikipedia. So I downloaded the latest "articles only" dump (20051127_pages_articles.xml.bz2), and then performed a bzip2 -d on it. Then I renamed it as "articles.xml" Next I tried to import it. I went to my wikis direcotory and renamed AdminSettings.sample as AdminSettings.php and changed $wgDBadminuser and $wgDBadminpassword to what I had specified when setting up the wiki (DB username and DB password on the Site Config screen) Then, after going to the maintenance directory, I wrote this in the terminal: php importDump.php /Users/xed/Desktop/articles.xml It spits out this error: <h1><img src='/~xed/testwiki/skins/common/images/wiki.png' style='float:left;margin-right:1em' alt=''>Testpedia has a problem</h1><p><strong>Sorry! This site is experiencing technical difficulties.</strong></p><p>Try waiting a few minutes and reloading.</p><p><small>(Can't contact the database server: Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server; consider upgrading MySQL client (localhost))</small></p> I thought it might have something to do with the size of the "articles.xml" file (nearly 4GB), but when I tested it on a single exported page from Wikipedia, it does the same thing. I'm running: MediaWiki: 1.5.2 PHP: 5.0.4 (apache) MySQL: 5.0.16-standard Thanks ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Model Search 2005 - Find the next catwalk superstars - http://uk.news.yahoo.com/hot/model-search/