[Mediawiki-l] Collapse/wipe revision history?

Wed Apr 19 20:53:44 UTC 2006

Thanks Rob, we'll check that out. 

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[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Rob Church
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Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Collapse/wipe revision history?

On 19/04/06, Jeff Lane <jeffl at valvesoftware.com> wrote:
> In Mediawiki 1.3 and 1.4, you could "wipe" revision history reasonably
> easily. You just wipe the single MySQL table (mw_old), flush the
> objectcache, and previous revisions of the entire wiki were blown
away.
> Any links into history items were dynamically rebuilt during
subsequent
> accesses.
>
> Is there a way to do this in 1.5.X or 1.6.X? We'd like to do this when
> we take sites that have been in development internally and put them
into
> production with a "clean slate" with no trace of all of the test
> revisions.

Make a backup, and then take a look at
maintenance/deleteOldRevisions.php.

Rob Church
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