Allen Lee wrote:

Hi,

I'm new to mediawiki and my mediawiki started working 2 days before.

First, I've no idea where is convenient to seach in the mailing list archives, so I post a question here.

The situation is that the wiki is only used by serveral people, and we don't care the history of all pages. In addition, the wiki is run on a webhost with a limited size of mysql database.

I know that changes tracking is one of the most important features of mediawiki. But I just worry about the database size it will consume.

Question:

1. Will the "changes tracking" consume a lot of space?
2. Is there any way to disable this feature?

Thanks very much.

Allen

You shouldn't hit a maximum size just by the history of a few pages. If want to remove them later, you can run the scripts deleteOldRevisions.php and purgeOldText.php to remove the histories and free space.