I thought maybe this problem was due to missing a package like php5-xmlrpc or php5-xsl, but I didn't want to risk testing on our production 1.11.2 MediaWiki system.
So I hacked up a quick VM with Ubuntu, and did apt-get install mediawiki. I configured the wiki and tested the SVG upload. However, this time it worked! The version of mediawiki I got was 1.13.3 . Those aforementioned php packages are not installed.
FWIW,
I thought maybe this problem was due to missing a package like php5-xmlrpc or php5-xsl, but I didn't want to risk testing on our production 1.11.2 MediaWiki system.
So I hacked up a quick VM with Ubuntu, and did apt-get install mediawiki. I configured the wiki and tested the SVG upload. However, this time it worked! The version of mediawiki I got was 1.13.3 . Those aforementioned php packages are not installed.
Hope this helps.