On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 14:32, Boris Steipe <boris.steipe(a)utoronto.ca> wrote:
I recently posted my experience migrating from 1.5.3
(MySQL 3.23) to 1.17 (MySQL 5.1). If you can't find it in the archive, contact me
off-list.
Boris
Or just link to it proactively :)
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2011-November/038212.html
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2011-November/038217.html
(no guarantee those steps will work for everyone... in particular it
should be vetted for "won't break your non-latin chars" but maybe
other things as well)
-Jeremy