The following setting fully switches MediaWiki to the new, MCR enabled database schema for revision storage:
$wgMultiContentRevisionSchemaMigrationStage = SCHEMA_COMPAT_NEW;
This renders the following database fields unused:
- revision.rev_text_id
- revision.rev_content_model
- revision.rev_content_format
- archive.ar_text_id
- archive.ar_content_model
- archive.ar_content_format