Can I get a link to your site? I would love to take a look and write
you that script, (I always love a challenge)

On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Yury Katkov <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think that we have the date after which there was only spam.
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> Yury Katkov
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> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 8:07 PM, John <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Its rather easy to write in pywiki I just need some information from
>> you about your wiki. (IE are all edits after X date bad, we only have
>> Y valid users and here are their names) exc stuff like that allows me
>> to tailor the script to your needs.
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Yury Katkov <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hi John, thanks! Take your time! If you already have such a script,
>>> and can share it - please do! But if not - I think it will be a good
>>> exercise in pywikipediabot or extension development for me.
>>> -----
>>> Yury Katkov
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>>> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 7:55 PM, John <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Like I said if you want I can whip up a script to nuke the spam, just
>>>> drop me an email off list
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Yury Katkov <[email protected]> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 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
>>>>>>>>
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