Thread:Manual talk:Installing MediaWiki/explanation wrong in MySQL Unix/Linux installation section

It says
 * 4. Set up a user in MySQL for your Wiki: /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql -u root -p mysql

but this does not "Set up a user in MySQL". It simply connects as the MySQL root user, prompts for the root password, then connects to the database named "mysql", MySQL's built-in administrative database. And I don't think you need the "mysql" database parameter, since the Installation Continued steps create a new database and user. I fixed the steps.

In fact, once you've completed step 3. "Set a password for the "root" account on your database server", you are done. The MediaWiki installer can connect using this root DB username and password, and then if you uncheck "Use the same account as for installation" you can enter a db username and password just for MediaWiki, and the installer will create it, making the steps under Installation Continued redundant. Elsewhere the page hints about this:
 * "MediaWiki will ask you for database and user name and will attempt to create them if they don't already exist."

but the MySQL instructions still have these unneeded steps. I'm not sure how to fix.