Daniel Barrett wrote: > What is the safest way to remove a custom namespace after all its articles > have been deleted? If we just remove it from $wgExtraNamespaces, there will > still be database entries (e.g., in the archive table) that reference the old > namespace number, and I don't know if this will cause problems or not. > > The official documentation isn't much help: > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Using_custom_namespaces#Removing_custom_namespaces > > In the worst case, we can rename the namespace to "OBSOLETE" and make it > read-only, or play tricks with Apache redirects, etc., but I'd prefer > something cleaner. Thanks. > > DanB
It shouldn't matter having those inaccessible entries, but if it bothers you, you can change that namespace number for the name of another, exisisting one. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
