marco wrote:
Hi,
I'm currently trying to migrate the following wiki:
http://tosio.math.utoronto.ca/pdewiki/
From MediaWiki-1.6.8/MySQL-4.1.20 to MediaWiki-1.13.2/MySQL-5.0.45 under Red Hat EL5. I've managed to get the new setup to work (including math parsing), but the database conversion (doing "php update.php") isn't fully functional.
After migrating the database (but before turning on the math parsing by setting $wgUseTeX and $wgEnableUploads) all works OK, and I can see the contents of the wiki fine except for the math. As soon as I turn on the math parser I get this error:
from within function "MathRenderer::_recall". MySQL returned error "1267: Illegal mix of collations (latin1_swedish_ci,IMPLICIT) and (utf8_general_ci,COERCIBLE) for operation '=' (localhost)".
I troubleshooted on #mediawiki a problem with the same symptoms last Sunday, filing bug 15851. However, it seemed to be specific to using the web install to update, and you used the command line script. The fix was setting $wgDBmysql5 = false; on LocalSettings. Try doing it and report back.