I hear you about the intended design of the engine is to keep everything.
Not every MediaWiki is intended to be used like wikipedia. Sometimes, it's
not good to keep history for whatever purpose, such as space requirement,
sensitive info, copyrighted material, spambot and etc...There should be a
status code field where you can specified if the current page then the code
is 1 or and older pages should be 0 or something else. As a site admin, all
I have to do is delete the page with statuscode other than 1.
On 1/12/06, Rob Church <robchur(a)gmail.com> wrote:
You can mark specific revisions as deleted, and delete entire pages,
but a wiki engine is designed to keep old versions available in order
to allow them to be restored; whether this is undeleting entire pages,
or revisions, or merely rolling back/reverting to an older version of
a page, for whatever reason.
Rob Church
On 12/01/06,
Dharmaweb.org <dharmaweb(a)gmail.com> wrote:
How can we delete it if we don't want to keep
it?
On 1/12/06, Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Robert P. Biuk-Aghai wrote:
> > Excuse what may be a stupid question, but I was burned using another
> > Wiki software so I have become more cautious: does MediWiki expire
old
> > versions of article and talk pages and
delete these from the
database?
Or are all versions kept indefinitely (which is what I
want)?
MediaWiki keeps all versions forever.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)
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