>> Hi everyone! >> >> I have found myself in the following situation several times: I >> created a wiki for some event or small project, everything works fine >> and after the event or project was done - nobody have seen this wiki >> for several months and does nothing on it. After several months >> somebody needs the wiki once again and realizes that the wiki database >> now have 3 Gb of text spam. Suppose that there is no back-up or >> rollback option in a wiki hosting. So here is the question: how to >> >> 1) remove all the spam >> 2) delete all the spam accounts >> 3) reduce the database size from 3Gb to the original size >> >> Cheers, >> Yury Katkov, WikiVote > >Do you have a list of legitimate known good accounts?
I'm actually really interested in this too. I just deleted the databases for two copies of Mediawiki that I ran for similar reasons... Thank you, Derric Atzrott _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
