It's a encoding problem. Your wiki is in ISO-8859-1, but showed as UTF-8 (and thus failing). If you change your browser encodign to ISO-8859-1, it repairs (revert 201.139.53.136 edits to Portada, and probably other edits with mixed encodings). The monobook parameters will fail (trying to show utf-8 as ISO-8859-1 :D), but page show. You could do two things: Change config to ask php sending ISO-8859-1 encoding in headers, instead of the current utf-8 it sends (and correct MW messages) or convert your articles to UTF-8 (there should be some auto-converter anywhere).

Note: This list is not intended for support. You should have pointed it on the mediawiki-l or wikitech-l and probably you need to fill a bug, as install updating should have handled this.

Saludos Platonides

----- Original Message ----- From: "Emanuel Lauria Izundegui" emanuel.lauria@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 4:05 AM Subject: [Mediawiki-i18n] Encoding after 1.4 to 1.5 upgrade

Hello for the first time.

Recently I updated my mediawiki from 1.4 to 1.5.8. Did everything the upgrade guide said.

First I backed up the database and the wiki/ directory too. Then I replaced everything except LocalSettings.php, images/ and extensions/, with the correct permissions. Created the AdminSettins.php, ran maintenance/update.php and refreshLinks.php. At last, php -f rebuildMessages.php rebuild, because I had everything in "es" (like Portada instead of MainPage). Now, the problem is that every article shows a "?" sign instead of the correct non-english character, like accented vocals or Ñ. The content is in spanish, so there are a lot of words like this: "?rbol" instead of "árbol".

You can see it here: http://linux.mty.itesm.mx/wiki/

What can I do?

If you need more info please ask.

Thanks for your time