[Wikitech-l] cleaning database of spam

2013-02-26 Thread Petr Bena
Hi, this is more related to mediawiki rather than wikimedia, but this list is being watched a bit more I guess. Is there any extension that allows permanent removal of deleted pages (or eventually selected deleted pages) from database and removal of blocked users from database? Imagine you have

Re: [Wikitech-l] cleaning database of spam

2013-02-26 Thread Platonides
On 26/02/13 11:57, Petr Bena wrote: Hi, this is more related to mediawiki rather than wikimedia, but this list is being watched a bit more I guess. Is there any extension that allows permanent removal of deleted pages (or eventually selected deleted pages) from database and removal of

Re: [Wikitech-l] cleaning database of spam

2013-02-26 Thread Petr Bena
but it will stop incrementing the datafile On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: On 26/02/13 11:57, Petr Bena wrote: Hi, this is more related to mediawiki rather than wikimedia, but this list is being watched a bit more I guess. Is there any extension that

Re: [Wikitech-l] cleaning database of spam

2013-02-26 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Platonides platoni...@gmail.com What is exact procedure of properly removing page from database so that it doesn't break anything? What needs to be deleted and in which order? maintenance/deleteArchivedRevisions.php permanently removes the content of

Re: [Wikitech-l] cleaning database of spam

2013-02-26 Thread Petr Bena
yes that's what I do : On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Platonides platoni...@gmail.com What is exact procedure of properly removing page from database so that it doesn't break anything? What needs to be deleted and in

Re: [Wikitech-l] cleaning database of spam

2013-02-26 Thread Petr Bena
You meant innodb_file_per_table On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: yes that's what I do : On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Platonides platoni...@gmail.com What is exact procedure of

Re: [Wikitech-l] cleaning database of spam

2013-02-26 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com You meant innodb_file_per_table Yes; I forgot the exact name, and tried (apparently unsuccessfully) to make that look as little like an exact parameter as possible. Happily, the OP runs that way anyway. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay