Can anyone think of a method to completely remove edit revisions that have been reverted from the database, or even just the revision history?
Before implementing spam prevention measures, we had a large number of edits created by spam bots that flooded the revision history of a fairly large number of pages. All of the edits were reverted (almost always by the very next edit), but the revision history remains. In some cases, it's very large and obscures the true authors of the page and makes diffs cumbersome. I've seen the revision hiding option in MediaiWiki, but it isn't really designed for what we need, because it makes the revision inaccessible, but the entries are still logged in the history. And it's an edit-by-edit process (which makes sense for its intended purpose). I know we could wipe the edit history altogether, and we may end up doing that on some pages, but ideally we could remove these "zero sum" edits and the credits of the original edits would remain. Ideas? -Jeff -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Method-to-remove-history-of-reverted-revisions--tp21512729p21512729.html Sent from the WikiMedia General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
