Thread:Project:Support desk/Where does Mediawiki store page content?

After an unsuccessful attempt to install Ubuntu 12.10 I reinstalled 12.04 first and then Mediawiki (after MySQL, apache2 and PHP5).

Though I have a backup of the old database, wikidb, I can not get Mediawiki to show the old content. For some reason my new tables are called w????* whereas my old tables are called w????_*.

So I am renaming the old tables to the new naming scheme. But this is not what I really would like to do. Browsing through the old tables has not given me any hint about where the old pages' content is stored. Can you help me?

The same applies to images.