: In MediaWiki, how to permanently delete old versions of deleted pages? I have deleted tens of thousands of spam pages in a MediaWiki instance painstakingly. Now I realize the old versions of
I have deleted tens of thousands of spam pages in a MediaWiki instance painstakingly. Now I realize the old versions of those pages still occupy database space and present a kind of garbage in the MediaWiki. How to efficiently delete those old versions?
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I presume, deleted articles have now a status archived, because if article is deleted by admin, it s removed into archive db-table.
This solution is for real admins:
Read firstly this manual.
Then prepare and run this maintenance script.
This solution is for bloody rookies:
Go into the database with your db-manager of choice,
mark all items in the archive table and delete them.
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