On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:38:52 +0800, jidanni wrote: >> mediawiki-l@, please > OK, sorry. Next time... >>> I don't know why the design decision was made to just leave those >>> Mediawiki: namespace items sitting in the archive and text tables. But >> Just run update.php. It does all that crap for you. > > I am sorry but update.php just calls deleteDefaultMessages.php which > just leaves them sitting in the text and archive tables forever! > > It just does a courteous delete, leaving all 1500 yes, deleted, but > not expunged, forever. > > If your wiki has been around since early 2007, have a look in your > archive and text database tables. The 1500 hundred message strings > should be very obvious there in the text table, and their > corresponding items in the logging and archive tables. > > Years and years will go by and one day you get curious and look in the > database and surprise, for a small wiki perhaps 90% of the database is > occupied by useless bloat.
maintenance/nukeNS.php was written for pretty much that purpose; to purge all the obsolete stuff from that namespace without flooding delete logs, etc. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
