On 12/30/05, Andres Obrero andres@holzapfel.ch wrote:
So here the question: How can i remove safely all spam in the database without leaving any link to a version. Can i just delete the blob in mysql?
I don't know of a way to * bulk-remove edits by a particular user * remove certain content
However, to block future spam like this, I recommend that you edit your LocalSettings.php and add either: $wgSpamRegex="/<div/"; or if you need to use <div> tags, try: $wgSpamRegex="/overflow:\s*auto/";
I also recommend the SpamBlacklist extension (although I couldn't get it to work 100%, it still works fairly well for me) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SpamBlacklist_extension