On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 01:44:06 -0800, Brion Vibber wrote:
But the original code stayed, and a default MediaWiki still tries to show everything. That's potentially a lot... especially after an upgrade to 1.9 which deletes a thousand-plus MediaWiki:foo pages!
On a related note, is there a simple way to make these pages disappear when upgrading to 1.9? I think maintenance/nukePage.php does something like this, but would have to be called once per page. A script to nuke the whole namespace may be useful for small wikis that normally have only a few items in the deletion log.