Can I get a link to your site? I would love to take a look and write you that script, (I always love a challenge)
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Yury Katkov katkov.juriy@gmail.com wrote:
I think that we have the date after which there was only spam.
Yury Katkov
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 8:07 PM, John phoenixoverride@gmail.com wrote:
Its rather easy to write in pywiki I just need some information from you about your wiki. (IE are all edits after X date bad, we only have Y valid users and here are their names) exc stuff like that allows me to tailor the script to your needs.
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Yury Katkov katkov.juriy@gmail.com wrote:
Hi John, thanks! Take your time! If you already have such a script, and can share it - please do! But if not - I think it will be a good exercise in pywikipediabot or extension development for me.
Yury Katkov
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 7:55 PM, John phoenixoverride@gmail.com wrote:
Like I said if you want I can whip up a script to nuke the spam, just drop me an email off list
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Yury Katkov katkov.juriy@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Reduce_size_of_the_database and here is the manual on how to purge the archive database! Thanks John, that's a perfect solution!
Yury Katkov
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 7:51 PM, John phoenixoverride@gmail.com wrote:
What can be done after mass deleting is to purge the archive database table which should reduce the database size significantly. If you take a look at the the example where I cleaned up an existing site I reduced the database size by about 90%
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Yury Katkov katkov.juriy@gmail.com 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? > ----- > Yury Katkov > > > > On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 4:13 PM, John phoenixoverride@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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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