This page is all about Collation in MediaWiki - and should probably become a new article to supplement the general topic page.
== See Also==
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgCategoryCollation and https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki/blob/master/maintenance/updateCollation.php
Other maintenance scripts such as https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki/blob/master/maintenance/uppercaseTitlesForUnicodeTransition.php or other extensions etc. may be helpful if you need to "fix" things.
In MWStake General, I [https://matrix.to/#/!NGZmJSwAAwbGRxhWwH:matrix.org/$HObrGFUPO_XBbhS3STTjQ5R-i-uV3cRjVIpPuAhP0i4?via=matrix.org&via=marijn.it&via=converser.eu said]
Short answer:
* https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installation_requirements#Database_server '''Seems like a 'bug' to have a minimum DB requirement for a DB that is out of support'''
* https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:MysqlUpdater.php - a class called by the Installer that performs database updates.
== Conversion ==
If you need to do conversion, check out the [https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.3/en/charset-conversion.html MySQL docs v8.3] and [https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/charset-conversion.html MySQL docs v5.7]
== checkStorage.php ==