After running mwdumper downloaded from wikimedia.org and dated 1 feb 06 with either of the following commands: java -jar mwdumper.jar --format=mysql:1.5 /wikidump/dump/enwiki-20070206-pages.articles.xml | mysql --default-chracter-set=utf8 -u root -p chrpdb java -jar mwdumper.jar --format=mysql:1.5 /wikidump/dump/enwiki-20070206-pages.articles.xml | mysql -u root -p chrpdb no pages show up in any of the edit histories for the wiki at all with the new wiki. In other words, it does not appear to work. This has also been reported on several other blogs and wikis. WIKI CONFIG: This wiki is powered by *MediaWiki <http://www.mediawiki.org/>*, copyright (C) 2001-2006 Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, Gabriel Wicke, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Niklas Laxström, Domas Mituzas, Rob Church and others. MediaWiki is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. MediaWiki is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License <http://chrp.wikigadugi.org/COPYING> along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. or read it online <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html> * MediaWiki <http://www.mediawiki.org/>: 1.8.2 * PHP <http://www.php.net/>: 5.1.4 (apache2handler) * MySQL <http://www.mysql.com/>: 5.0.18 * Extensions: o Parser hooks: + /Cite/ <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cite/Cite.php>, adds <ref[ name=id]> and <references/> tags, for citations, by Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason + /ParserFunctions/ <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ParserFunctions> by Tim Starling o Extension functions: + wfSetupParserFunctions and wfCite o Parser extension tags: + <ref>, <references> and <pre> o Parser function hooks: + expr, if, ifeq, ifexpr, switch, ifexist, int, ns, urlencode, lcfirst, ucfirst, lc, uc, localurl, localurle, fullurl, fullurle, formatnum, grammar, plural, numberofpages, numberofusers, numberofarticles, numberoffiles, numberofadmins, language, padleft, padright and anchorencode * Hooks: o LanguageGetMagic: wfParserFunctionsLanguageGetMagic o ParserClearState: (Cite, clearState) Jeff