I managed to get a mediawiki installation up and running on the city escapes domain with Servage web host in the end, and once working it does seem to be fairly robust as far as non-US web hosting services are concerned.

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• MediaWiki: 1.11.1
• PHP: 5.2.42-servage10 (apache2handler)
• MySQL: 5.0.75

http://cityescapes.eu/page/Special:Version