Technically speaking, pages and accounts can be permanently deleted. (There is an extension for it I believe.) However, since MediaWiki does not use foreign keys, you have to be careful not to break things in the process.
*--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Yury Katkov <katkov.ju...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi everyone! I agree with everyone in this thread, but the main > problem is that even if I create a bot of use extensions that removes > pages, the actual database records won't be deleted. If I understand > correctly, the MediaWiki philosophy tells us that we cannot just drop > the page or an account from the database - all the deletions means > only that we will hide those nasty spam pages. > > Consequently after the deletions the size of my database won't shrink > to original 100 Mb, it remains around 3Gb which is a problem for > hosting. > > The proposed solution of exporting all the pages to a brand new wiki > solves this problem. Are there any other solutions where the dropping > of my old spammed database does not involved? > ----- > Yury Katkov > > > > On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 4:13 PM, John <phoenixoverr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Given enough facts it would be rather easy for me to write a script > > that nukes said spam I did something similar on > > http://manual.fireman.com.br/wiki/Especial:Registro/Betacommand > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
