Thread:Project:Support desk/Inserting directly into mysql database/reply (2)

Hi Hans!

The text is in old_text; for each page the complete text is saved in this one field. So if you want to modify something, it would be the content of this field.

I am not completely sure, but can you not just use UPDATE in MySQL and then write normal text into these fields? (This will not work, if the text is gzip encoded, which you could set in LocalSettings.php.)

However, it might be more clever to not manipulate the DB directly, but to either use the MediaWiki API and/or maybe write a few lines of PHP code, which create the text in exactly the way you need it.