[Wikitech-l] Handling of system messages got strange

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi there, we are using MW 1.14.1/59249 (Lenny, Apache 2, mySQL 5.0.51a-24, PHP 5.2.6-1) since January without big problems. http://wiki-de.genealogy.net Only from the last week we suffer from a strange MW behavior, we can not understand what does it cause and what did it trigger: (Some!) System messages from the MediaWiki namespace are shown as &lt;MESSAGE_NAME&gt; e.g.: - - the title of main page: <pagetitle> and <pagetitle-view-mainpage> or correctly converted (in article text area) as <MESSAGE_NAME> e.g.: - - in Special:Login - <Loginstart> and <Loginend> Another phenomenon was, that MediaWiki:Signature was not set, so from one day to the next ~~~~ began to deliver <signature>. This is for emptied system messages or such untouched since installation/updates. But they should be delivered from the system with default values?! We did not do any maintenance actions, especially for db- or language-maintenance. $wgUseDatabaseMessages is still true. Creating/editing wrong working messages heals the situation. But we don´t know, where all over lurk (much?) further ones to annoy us?! Any suggestions? Crying for help ;-) and thanking in advance Uwe (Baumbach) U.Baumbach(a)web.de - --