Charles Martin wrote:
How is the page text stored in the database? Can someone point me to documentation explaining how the internal representation works?
Have a look at the page below (it doesn't say more than is said on the Mediawiki's own pages, I did this only as a "demo" - see earlier post - for illustrating the documentation with UML-like notation): http://meta.rilnet.org/wiki/Mediawiki/Database/Tables/Page
Coincidentally only the three relevant pages ("page", "revision" and "text" - tables) are accessible on this wiki. :-)
For the "real thing", browse Mediawiki pages instead: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_table
Regards,
// Rolf Lampa