As the subject implies, there is a variable named $wgDBmysql5. I am inclined to believe that the purpose of this variable is to use features only available in MySQL 5.0 or later. The specific implementation affects the encoding in the database. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgDBmysql5 Right now MediaWiki installation requirements say you need MySQL 5.0.2 or later. So my question is: is this configuration variable still necessary, or should it be deprecated? *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science