Simetrical wrote:
On 5/16/07, Raimond Spekking raimond.spekking@gmail.com wrote:
A maintenance script cannot be run by local admins to clean up the MediaWiki namespace.
A solution would be a cron job for this script running once per week over all projects. This would unburden the local admins from stupid work.
Or just run it in update.php. An issue would be that deleting past revisions would hide the history of changes, which may not be desirable.
update.php already calls deleteDefaultMessages.php, it's just a matter of extending the latter to do what Raimond wants. As for hiding the history, I agree it could be a problem, but it's no more of a problem than when done by Raimond's current method. That's why I suggested the possibility of adding a command-line option to update.php to enable it.