http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Reduce_size_of_the_database and here is the manual on how to purge the archive database! Thanks John, that's a perfect solution! ----- Yury Katkov
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 7:51 PM, John <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
