I had this same problem. I made a list of all the pages in a text file then fed them to ./maintenance/deleteBatch.php [2]. These does exactly like it sounds, delete the pages. I haven't bothered to be block the spam users because, at least so far, they never come back to use them after the initial spam edit.
As for DPL. If you hit a page with ?action=purge attached to the URL (IE http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Template:Latest_news?action=purge ), it will dump all the removed pages.
-Jon [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:DeleteBatch.php
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 17:34, Bruce Whealton < bwhealton@futurewavedesigns.com> wrote:
Hello, I recently found that one of the wikis that I thought was being maintained was not. Now, I see some 50+ spam posts.
- Is there a quick way to delete a group of articles?
- Can one delete/ban/block users and delete all their articles also?
- I did also have a situation where I was displaying an article list with
the extension that does this. I noticed that the front page that Displayed the most recent articles using dynamic article list, was displaying links to articles that I deleted. When you clicked on the links they were dead. Isn't there a way to make this extension not display articles that have been deleted? Thanks, Bruce
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