From: Benjamin Lees [mailto:emufarmers@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, July 06, 2012 2:14 PM
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list; tom(a)hutch4.us
Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] 16.5 to 19.1 install issue update.php adds only 1 table
The updater isn't looking at the right database (or it's not looking at the right
tables in it).
Check $wgDBname and $wgDBprefix, Perhaps you have an AdminSettings.php file that's
lying around
with old values?
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Thanks, I got it. IMO, the update.php should be checking for the drop table and if it
doesn't
exist, create it, which is what I thought it did. A MySQL export without the drop table,
then an
import fails because it is looking for the drop table, which isn't there. Devs? Is
this correct?
Once I exported with the drop table, imported, the update went off without a hitch.
Almost.I
should say, because a stumbled right into a known bug in table align="right"
without a
resolution yet in the sanitizer. Target fix is 1.20?
I opted for wikipedia's solution, $wgHtml5 = false to change the output back to XHTML
1.0
Transitional which fixed the table alignments on page's with tables. Yes, HTML5 is the
newest
and next, but with Mediawiki Devs on a, "Red Bull" induced release schedule what
are all the
wiki maintainers out there to do but cope as best we can. I certainly don't have the
time to go
and edit a couple hundred pages with align="right" set for the table.
Thanks
Tom