I had this same problem. I made a list of all the pages in a text file then fed them to ./maintenance/deleteBatch.php [2]. These does exactly like it sounds, delete the pages. I haven't bothered to be block the spam users because, at least so far, they never come back to use them after the initial spam edit.
As for DPL. If you hit a page with ?action=purge attached to the URL (IE http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Template:Latest_news?action=purge ), it will dump all the removed pages. -Jon [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:DeleteBatch.php On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 17:34, Bruce Whealton < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > I recently found that one of the wikis that I thought was being > maintained was not. Now, I see some 50+ spam posts. > 1) Is there a quick way to delete a group of articles? > 2) Can one delete/ban/block users and delete all their articles also? > 3) I did also have a situation where I was displaying an article list with > the extension that does this. I noticed that the front page that > Displayed the most recent articles using dynamic article list, was > displaying links to articles that I deleted. When you clicked on the links > they were dead. Isn't there a way to make this extension not display > articles that have been deleted? > Thanks, > Bruce > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Bruce Whealton, Owner Future Wave Designs > FOAF: http://whealton.info/BruceWhealton1/foaf.rdf > Vcard: http://whealton.info/BruceWhealton1/brucewhealtonvcard.html > Web Design and Development http://FutureWaveDesigns.com > http://futurewavedesigns.com/wordpress/ > Web Technology wiki: http://futurewavedesigns.com/w/ > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > -- Jon [[User:ShakataGaNai]] / KJ6FNQ http://snowulf.com/ http://ipv6wiki.net/ _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
