Thanks! I added a brief acknowledgement that these are the only necessary steps as a last 'Uninstalling'section of the install instructions at:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Installation#Uninstalling

- Gordon @ Bitzi

Brion Vibber wrote:

Gordon Mohr (@ Bitzi) wrote:

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I have an old private scratch 1.4.x installation I just want to throw out completely before installing 1.5.2.

Beyond deleting the wiki directory, I presume that I just need to drop all the MediaWiki MySQL tables.

Is there a reference script to do this anywhere? (My searches haven't turned one up, nor any specific instruction for a complete MediaWiki uninstall/wipe.)

If you don't have any other tables in the database, you can just drop the whole thing, such as:

DROP DATABASE wikidb;

If you do have other things you want to save in there, you can drop each table individually:

USE wikidb; DROP TABLE cur; DROP TABLE old; etc

The list of table definitions is in maintenance/tables.sql, or you can just do a SHOW TABLES and kill the ones you don't recognize from something else.

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