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This page is only for administrative use. | |||
To delete a single user, see [[Special:UserMerge]]. | |||
This is how I (DBooth) did a bulk cleanup of wiki spam: | This is how I (DBooth) did a bulk cleanup of wiki spam: | ||
1. | '''1. Enable the extensions for batch deletion''' in wiki/LocalSettings.php on the server: | ||
<nowiki> | <nowiki> | ||
################# Extensions for batch deletion #################### | ################# Extensions for batch deletion #################### | ||
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</nowiki> | </nowiki> | ||
2. | 2. '''Check the list of [[PagesNotCreatedByAdmin]]''' | ||
3. If it looked like they should all or almost all be deleted, go to [[Special:NukeDPL]] and paste into the form: | '''3. Nuke the pages not created by Admin.''' If it looked like they should all or almost all be deleted, go to [[Special:NukeDPL]] and paste into the form: | ||
<nowiki> | <nowiki> | ||
notmodifiedby = Admin | notmodifiedby = Admin | ||
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and submit. | and submit. | ||
Then uncheck any that should NOT be deleted, and submit. | |||
'''4. Delete all revision history.''' WARNING: this applies to *all* pages! No 'undo' will be possible for any page after this! See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:DeleteArchivedRevisions.php | |||
<nowiki> | <nowiki> | ||
cd wiki/maintenance | cd wiki/maintenance | ||
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</nowiki> | </nowiki> | ||
'''5. Delete unused accounts''' (see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:RemoveUnusedAccounts.php ): | |||
<nowiki> | <nowiki> | ||
cd wiki/maintenance | cd wiki/maintenance | ||
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</nowiki> | </nowiki> | ||
7. Disable the extensions for batch deletion in wiki/LocalSettings.php on the server, because they are too dangerous to leave enabled: | '''6. Manually delete other spam users''' by merging them to Anonymous account and selecting the delete option: | ||
* [[Special:ListUsers]] | |||
* [[Special:UserMerge]] | |||
'''7. Disable the extensions for batch deletion''' in wiki/LocalSettings.php on the server, because they are too dangerous to leave enabled: | |||
<nowiki> | <nowiki> | ||
################# Extensions for batch deletion #################### | ################# Extensions for batch deletion #################### | ||
Latest revision as of 15:52, 19 November 2014
This page is only for administrative use.
To delete a single user, see Special:UserMerge.
This is how I (DBooth) did a bulk cleanup of wiki spam:
1. Enable the extensions for batch deletion in wiki/LocalSettings.php on the server:
################# Extensions for batch deletion #################### require_once "$IP/extensions/Nuke/Nuke.php"; require_once "$IP/extensions/DeleteBatch/DeleteBatch.php"; require_once "$IP/extensions/DynamicPageList/DynamicPageList.php"; require_once "$IP/extensions/NukeDPL/NukeDPL.php";
2. Check the list of PagesNotCreatedByAdmin
3. Nuke the pages not created by Admin. If it looked like they should all or almost all be deleted, go to Special:NukeDPL and paste into the form:
notmodifiedby = Admin nottitlematch = Main\_Page
and submit.
Then uncheck any that should NOT be deleted, and submit.
4. Delete all revision history. WARNING: this applies to *all* pages! No 'undo' will be possible for any page after this! See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:DeleteArchivedRevisions.php
cd wiki/maintenance php deleteArchivedRevisions.php # And if the number of revisions to delete looks correct, do: php deleteArchivedRevisions.php --delete
5. Delete unused accounts (see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:RemoveUnusedAccounts.php ):
cd wiki/maintenance php removeUnusedAccounts.php # And if the result looks correct, do: php removeUnusedAccounts.php --delete
6. Manually delete other spam users by merging them to Anonymous account and selecting the delete option:
7. Disable the extensions for batch deletion in wiki/LocalSettings.php on the server, because they are too dangerous to leave enabled:
################# Extensions for batch deletion #################### # require_once "$IP/extensions/Nuke/Nuke.php"; # require_once "$IP/extensions/DeleteBatch/DeleteBatch.php"; # require_once "$IP/extensions/DynamicPageList/DynamicPageList.php"; # require_once "$IP/extensions/NukeDPL/NukeDPL.php";
Background Info
These are pages that I used to figure out how to do the above.