[Mediawiki-l] Help with new installation

[B. M. Whealton]

Hello all,
         I had a somewhat small wiki with not a lot of content in it, so 
when things went wrong with my mediawiki 1.15.x installation upgrade to 
mediawiki 1.16.0, I just started with a fresh install.  At about the 
time that I figured out that mediawiki 1.16 was the latest version and I 
was using 1.15.x, I also was running into an error when I added a couple 
extensions.  It was telling me that a cache table did not exist and this 
was crashing my site, my wiki.  I couldn't just create an empty table 
because I had no idea how many columns were in that table.
         Anyway, I thought with the new installation I could bring in 
the content, the articles from the old installation.  The problem is 
that in looking at my exported db, a mysql db, that I exported from 
phpmyAdmin and my cpanel, and from just browsing the db, I see that the 
content of the articles are in binary files.  So, it's not text that I 
can just copy and paste into new articles - I only had about 10 of them. 
  Is there a way to get at those binary files that contain the text of 
the articles, and the wiki code and somehow either import it into my new 
wiki install or look at it and examine it in some way so that I could 
copy and paste the content so as to recreate the articles.
      I should note that I don't seem to have shell access, so I have to 
use the cpanel and phpmyadmin.
Thanks for any tips,
Bruce

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