In a message dated 11/24/2010 3:52:08 PM Pacific
Standard Time,
2007(a)gmaskfx.com writes:
<<Well after upgrading to the newest
version and using a few extensions I
was able to clean up the mess but it still took a good days worth of
work.
There were three "users" making edits so rolling them back created
conflicts unless you did them in the right order. I resolved the
conflicts by
copying the revision of the page I wanted to
keep, deleting the page and
then
pasting back in the content.
One thing I really don't like about most of the solutions I used is that
they still leave traces of the spam in your database.
Anyway .. I don't have alot of traffic on my wiki so it's my fault for
not
checking it frequently enough that I could have
just restored to a backup
of the database. I need to see if my service provider will configure a
longer period of backups. >>
I have the same issue from time-to-time. I also used this trick of
deleting the page and posting back my last good version, but of course that
wipes
out all the past history as well, not that most people with Mediawiki's
really care about that history.... I'm just not certain that when you wipe
the
history in this tricky way, if it actually releases that space out of the
database for use by another article, or if it's still sitting there,
unlinked,
but using up space.
The page history seems to begin anew for regular viewers (protecting them
from seeing the 'deleted' content), but administrators can see deleted
versions of the page by visiting the deletion log that shows when attempting
to delete a page that has a deletion history.
I've also wondered about the case, when you leave
the spam in the old
version. Does that still get indexed in Google? Or is Google clever
enough to
only see the top version of your page? I don't know the answer myself.
W