Brian Campbell wrote: > > One of the main barriers to upgrading is that the data I inherited has > some significant encoding issues; the databases were all created with > ISO-8859-1 encodings, but UTF-8 data has been stored in them, which > means that any time you do a dump and restore, you get nasty mojibake. > > This should all be doable, but it will take a bit of work. I haven't > found the time to do it yet, but my life has settled down a bit > recently such that I can probably now dedicate the time to doing the > upgrade. If anyone would like to volunteer to help, either directly > with the upgrade, or with testing the wiki out while I'm in the > process of doing the upgrade to make sure I haven't broken anything > (looking around to make sure encodings aren't messed up, editing > pages, making sure the new SMW search features are working), I would > greatly appreciate the assistance and (virtual) company. I can > probably make time in one of the next few weekends, if anyone's > interested in helping out let me know when you're free. I have some experience with encoding issues like this, but not with MediaWiki in particular. I've even been known to go through a small wiki, converting Latin-1 and mojibake into UTF-8 by script, but working with a database (or even a dump) would be much easier. Which database are you using? I'm most available from 8-10 PM Mountain time, but can also steal some weekend time on occasion. - Eric