Thanks, Rob.
Indeed! This update is largely required! But I am one of these users running MediaWiki in
a non-target OS (NW6.5) and I've been relaying on the patches released by Guenter
Knauf at his website. Following Brion Vibber last entry at
http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2569 it seems possible that MediaWiki 1.6
solves this issue. So I will try to install and start using a CVS client as soon as
possible, to run 1.6 and see if it install directly out of the box in NW6.5. I am just a
newcomer to the Open Source arena.
In any case, I will give a run to the proposed script before updating the server.
Best,
Ricardo
--
Ricardo Rodríguez
The XEN ICT Team
>> Rob Church<robchur(a)gmail.com> 5/3/2006
01:09 >>>
It relies upon nukePage.php, nukePage.inc, deleteOldRevisions.php,
deleteOldRevisions.inc, purgeOldText.php and purgeOldText.inc. :)
Incidentally, you should consider upgrading to MediaWiki 1.5.7. This
would make the files available anyway.
Rob Church
On 5 Mar 2006 00:51:18 +0100, The XEN ICT Team - Ricardo Rodríguez
<webmaster(a)xen.net> wrote:
Thank you so much, Rob.
As I am far from being a MediaWiki hacker, please, can I just copy the concerned script
to the 1.5.2 maintenance folder and execute it from the server command line? Must I copy
any other script? Thanks.
Best,
--
Ricardo Rodríguez
The XEN ICT Team
>> Rob Church<robchur(a)gmail.com>
4/3/2006 23:07 >>>
Prior to dabbling with the database direct, give the nukePage
maintenance script in CVS a go. It'll be distributed with 1.5.7 or
available from the REL_1_5 branch, but has dependencies. This does the
deletion at the database level, and might avoid the problem.
If it doesn't, get the page ID from the page table, then wipe the page
record from that table; and all revisions associated with it. Then use
the purgeRedundantText script (in CVS, also) to wipe the now-orphaned
text records (or wipe them as you're doing the revisions).
Rob Church
On 04/03/06, The XEN ICT Team - Ricardo Rodríguez <webmaster(a)xen.net> wrote:
Hi all out there.
We have been successfully running a NW6. 1.5.2 MediaWiki installation for several months
but now facing a weird problem. It seems that a particular combination of characters in
the title of a page causes the server to hang and restart when we try to edit or delete
it. We have not a precise idea yet about the exact cause of the error, but it is clear
that only a page is causing it.
Please, what tables/record we need to edit/delete to erase this particular page from the
database without using MediaWiki utilities? MySQL 4.1.15a in the background.
Thank you so much for your help,
Ricardo
--
Ricardo Rodríguez
The XEN ICT Team
_______________________________________________
MediaWiki-l mailing list
MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org
http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
_______________________________________________
MediaWiki-l mailing list
MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org
http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
_______________________________________________
MediaWiki-l mailing list
MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org
http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
_______________________________________________
MediaWiki-l mailing list
MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org
http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l