What can be done after mass deleting is to purge the archive database table which should reduce the database size significantly. If you take a look at the the example where I cleaned up an existing site I reduced the database size by about 90%
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Yury Katkov <[email protected]> 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 <[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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
