Re: [MediaWiki-l] Question about deleteOldRevisions.php

2019-08-29 Thread John
That script doesn’t delete deleted revisions. It deletes revision history. I would look at your database to compact/release space that has been freed On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 12:34 PM eQuality Technology wrote: > IIRC deleted article revisions go into the archive table, so it's this > table that

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Question about deleteOldRevisions.php

2019-08-29 Thread eQuality Technology
IIRC deleted article revisions go into the archive table, so it's this table that will have entries removed by the script. deleteOldRevisions *will* reduce the size of your database (assuming there were any deleted revisions to delete). eQuality Technology *Let's work together* https://equality-

[MediaWiki-l] Question about deleteOldRevisions.php

2019-08-29 Thread Rowe (US), Dolores A
I'm trying to reduce the size of a large text table in one of our mediawikis. I ran the maintenance script deleteOldRevisions.php, but after I was done the text table was still the same size. What am I misunderstanding regarding the procedure ? What does this indicate ? thanks, Lori ___