[Wikitech-l] Re: Deletion of 5000+ pages forbidden

Solving the ticket MatmaRex mentioned (T20493) would remove the 5,000 limitation and address several other major tech debt in our databases. It's on the roadmap of the database work (T297633) and I hope to start it later in this year or early next. It will take a while but we will get there and

[Wikitech-l] Re: Deletion of 5000+ pages forbidden

The limit exists because deleting a page requires copying all of its revisions from the 'revision' table to the 'archive' table. I imagine it was a simple practical solution in 2003. There's some discussion of the problem and links to other relevant bug reports at

[Wikitech-l] Re: Deletion of 5000+ pages forbidden

On 23/8/22 21:29, Martin Domdey wrote: > Hi, > > please tell me, what is the thought behind the impossibility, that a > normal admin can delete pages with more than 5000 revisions. The introduction of the limit was announced in 2008 at WP:VPT archive 16

[Wikitech-l] Re: Deletion of 5000+ pages forbidden

There appears to have been an incident in 2008 where Wikipedia was disrupted for half an hour by deleting the enwiki Wikipedia:Sandbox page, which has a lot of revisions. After this, the 5000 revision limit was coded in. More info: *

[Wikitech-l] Re: Deletion of 5000+ pages forbidden

Thanks for your reply. No, it's a portal service page with bot stuff only and without notable history at all. But how can a 5000+ page deletion crash any of your servers? In my opinion happens not much in databases. All the best, Martin Thiemo Kreuz schrieb am Di., 23. Aug. 2022, 13:35: >

[Wikitech-l] Re: Deletion of 5000+ pages forbidden

5000 is a very common limit that's all over MediaWiki (APIs and such) simply to not crash our servers. Which page is it? Usually pages with any notable history are turned into redirects and not deleted. Kind regards Thiemo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list --