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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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