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 <[email protected]> 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 > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
