Hi,
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 $wgDBmysql5 = false; on LocalSettings. Try doing it
and report back.
Yes, thanks! That solved the problem. The "LocalSettings.php" file
defaulted to "$wgDBmysql5 = true;". I'll look into switching over
the entire wiki & databases to UTF-8, I hope it goes smoothly but
may come back for further assistance.
Thanks again for your help.
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Marco De la Cruz-Heredia Department of Mathematics
Systems Administrator University of Toronto
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