Those are all good questions.. I also wonder if there is a tool to download all the pages at their current version so you could flush the database and then re-import the pages cleanly?
I don't really care about the history of these pages.. most of them are very short and they history are tiny edits.. if anything the fact that it is so hard to remove spam and vandalism because the design seems to favor history so much is a detriment and places into the hands of the spammers. >From the get go there should have been tools in place that would completely >and permanently remove entries but I guess if feature got into the wrong hands >someone into on really doing damage could delete the entire wiki. Ultimately >the reason why I went with mediawiki was because a friend had written his own >wiki software or was using something really crude with no history and the >entire site was wiped out but a vandal. --- On Wed, 11/24/10, wjhon...@aol.com <wjhon...@aol.com> wrote: I have the same issue from time-to-time. I also used this trick of deleting the page and posting back my last good version, but of course that wipes out all the past history as well, not that most people with Mediawiki's really care about that history.... I'm just not certain that when you wipe the history in this tricky way, if it actually releases that space out of the database for use by another article, or if it's still sitting there, unlinked, but using up space. I've also wondered about the case, when you leave the spam in the old version. Does that still get indexed in Google? Or is Google clever enough to only see the top version of your page? I don't know the answer myself. W _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
