So, I'm guessing that the mediawiki servers don't use the in-place installer for upgrades.

If so, there's a hairy bug somehow, since the user_real_name field seems to be missing from some Wikipediae, per the discussion on meta:

http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.3_comments_and_bug_reports#Vietna...

Any suggestions? I'd like to make it possible for people to, say, login or create user accounts.

~ESP