Hi,
First, I would like to thank everyone. I got localisation set up, beautiful URLs working fine.
This problem just pop up: How do I delete completely a page? I want to delete a page and its historical data all together.
Thanks again, mauro.
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On 13/12/05, Mauro do Carmo mauro@carmo.ws wrote:
This problem just pop up: How do I delete completely a page? I want to delete a page and its historical data all together.
If you're logged into an account with "sysop" status (one of these should have been setup during install), there should be a "delete" tab at the top of each page. The revisions will be kept in the database, in case you made a mistake and want to undelete them later, but ordinary users won't be able to see them, and the page will basically cease to exist.
-- Rowan Collins BSc [IMSoP]
Thanks Rowan,
However, could one delete completely the revisions so that they would not be kept in the database? I mean delete completely the content of 'Old table' of a deleted page.
Thanks, mauro.
-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Rowan Collins Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 5:04 AM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] delete complytely a page
On 13/12/05, Mauro do Carmo mauro@carmo.ws wrote:
This problem just pop up: How do I delete completely a page? I want to delete a page and its historical data all together.
If you're logged into an account with "sysop" status (one of these should have been setup during install), there should be a "delete" tab at the top of each page. The revisions will be kept in the database, in case you made a mistake and want to undelete them later, but ordinary users won't be able to see them, and the page will basically cease to exist.
-- Rowan Collins BSc [IMSoP] _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Mauro do Carmo wrote:
However, could one delete completely the revisions so that they would not be kept in the database? I mean delete completely the content of 'Old table' of a deleted page.
MediaWiki is designed to retain data, so actions can be cleanly undone.
If you for some reason need to permanently remove things from the database, you can manipulate the database in MySQL directly. See maintenance/tables.sql for the annotated schema definitions.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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