On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:01:08 +0000, Rob Church wrote:
On 17/01/07, Steve Sanbeg <ssanbeg(a)ask.com>
wrote:
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.
I don't see what's wrong with the existing method, apart from the fact
that it floods the deletion log; we could do something about that, I
expect.
It's not a big issue, but on small private wikis where deletions aren't
common, it should be fairly easy to find deleted pages, so flooding the
delete logs and recent changes probably isn't ideal.
It seems simple enough to modify nukePage to delete a namespace, and even
skip articles with multiple revisions; which would make for a cleaner
upgrade.
-Steve