On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Anthony <wikim...@inbox.org> wrote: > Hmm, okay. Should I be using character set and collation "binary"? > The dumps build the table using character set utf8, and don't say > anything about the collation. Is this specific to edit summaries, or > does it apply to all the text fields? > > I guess this is getting off topic, but I'm not quite sure what the > topic of this thread is anyway.
Wikipedia uses binary fields for everything. It has to, since MySQL 4.0 doesn't support anything else. I don't know what other sites running off Wikipedia dumps do. > I don't know if it was supposed to be taken as sarcasm or not, but Tim > Starling recently commented that "it seems that I'm the only staff > member who knows MySQL." That was a joke, right? I assume he was saying that he's the only paid Wikimedia staff right now who knows a lot about databases, and MySQL in particular. I don't know without context. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
