Technically speaking, pages and accounts can be permanently deleted. (There
is an extension for it I believe.) However, since MediaWiki does not use
foreign keys, you have to be careful not to break things in the process.
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*Tyler Romeo*
Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015
Major in Computer Science
www.whizkidztech.com | tylerromeo(a)gmail.com
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Yury Katkov <katkov.juriy(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Hi everyone! I agree with everyone in this thread, but
the main
problem is that even if I create a bot of use extensions that removes
pages, the actual database records won't be deleted. If I understand
correctly, the MediaWiki philosophy tells us that we cannot just drop
the page or an account from the database - all the deletions means
only that we will hide those nasty spam pages.
Consequently after the deletions the size of my database won't shrink
to original 100 Mb, it remains around 3Gb which is a problem for
hosting.
The proposed solution of exporting all the pages to a brand new wiki
solves this problem. Are there any other solutions where the dropping
of my old spammed database does not involved?
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Yury Katkov
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 4:13 PM, John <phoenixoverride(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Given enough facts it would be rather easy for me
to write a script
that nukes said spam I did something similar on
http://manual.fireman.com.br/wiki/Especial:Registro/Betacommand
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