[Mediawiki-l] Help with new installation

[Henny Savenije]

You may try to import the file in MySQL and use 
the update script to update the database. Make a backup before you try this.

At 09:50 ¿ÀÀü 2010-09-13, you wrote:
>Hello all,
>          I had a somewhat small wiki with not a lot of content in it, so
>when things went wrong with my mediawiki 1.15.x installation upgrade to
>mediawiki 1.16.0, I just started with a fresh install.  At about the
>time that I figured out that mediawiki 1.16 was the latest version and I
>was using 1.15.x, I also was running into an error when I added a couple
>extensions.  It was telling me that a cache table did not exist and this
>was crashing my site, my wiki.  I couldn't just create an empty table
>because I had no idea how many columns were in that table.
>          Anyway, I thought with the new installation I could bring in
>the content, the articles from the old installation.  The problem is
>that in looking at my exported db, a mysql db, that I exported from
>phpmyAdmin and my cpanel, and from just browsing the db, I see that the
>content of the articles are in binary files.  So, it's not text that I
>can just copy and paste into new articles - I only had about 10 of them.
>   Is there a way to get at those binary files that contain the text of
>the articles, and the wiki code and somehow either import it into my new
>wiki install or look at it and examine it in some way so that I could
>copy and paste the content so as to recreate the articles.
>       I should note that I don't seem to have shell access, so I have to
>use the cpanel and phpmyadmin.
>Thanks for any tips,
>Bruce
>
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