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On 2016-03-23 19:04:58 +0000 (+0000), Jeremy Stanley wrote:
> On 2016-03-23 13:05:48 +0800 (+0800), Tom Fifield wrote:
> > So, *sigh*. I've been trying to use
> > 
> > https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Special:Nuke
> > 
> > to delete pages matching
> > 
> > %1%800% (there are about 5000)
> > 
> > and it doesn't work :(
> > 
> > Everything appears to be fine, but the pages don't get deleted or appear on
> > the deletion log.
> 
> The ones I've spot-checked appear to already be deleted previously
> (Mostly by Paul), but they still show up on the Nuke match for some
> reason. If I visit them I see, "This page has been deleted. The
> deletion and move log for the page are provided below for
> reference."

A quick search indicates we likely want a root sysadmin to run a
maintenance script[*] and purge the history of deleted pages. Keep
in mind this would be removing the history for any pages we've
deleted for any reason, not just spam pages, so it's worth
discussing if that's a loss of historical data we're willing to
accept.

[*] <URL: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Reduce_size_of_the_database#Permanently_remove_the_history_of_deleted_pages >

-- 
Jeremy Stanley