If you don't care about keeping old revisions and deleted revisions around (or are not
obligated to keep revision around due to your wiki license), you should probably run these
two scripts every so often:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:DeleteArchivedRevisions.php
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:DeleteOldRevisions.php
This can hammer down the size of your database quite a bit if you have many pages with a
lot of revisions.
If you have server access, have deleted pictures, and don't care to retrieve them
later, you can always permanently delete those to recover some more space.
If you have a copy of PHPMyAdmin running and you uninstalled some extensions that left
some database tables with lots of leftover data you never plan to use, you can delete
those to free up some more space, though I'd back up your database before doing so.
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 12:18:13 -0700
From: roger(a)rogerchrisman.com
To: mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Database size ballooning?
Are there any maintenance scripts I should routinely run, maybe once a months?
Roger
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