[Novalug] MediaWiki and mysql question

[John Warren]

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>
> Does MediaWiki by general behavior store the articles actually in the mysql
> data base?
>
> Note:  If these files are permanently lost it is not critical; I can
> recreate them (probably this
> time in vanilla HTML).
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>
It's my understanding that media wiki stores everything not specifically in
the fast cache in the DB for persistence.  So chances are if it was a
vanilla install without any optimization the articles are all in DB tables
and probably gone.

-John W
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