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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] need some advice on how to prune my current wiki so i can move it

  • Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] need some advice on how to prune my current wiki so i can move it
  • From: Rick Leir <rleir [ at ] leirtech [ dot ] com>
  • Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 19:11:28 -0400
Of course you would do a backup before monkeying with it.

Google "mediawiki delete old revisions" to find relevant extensions and features.

On March 31, 2017 3:51:34 PM EDT, "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday [ at ] crashcourse [ dot ] ca> wrote:
>
>  i'm in the process of relocating my domain crashcourse.ca and,
>apparently, one of the databases (the one for my wiki) has gotten
>monstrously large, i'm assuming because of all the history, so that's
>it's now over 10G. most of that is just history and i have no interest
>in keeping previous revisions, just the current pages.
>
>  i've logged into cpanel for my domain and, via phpmyadmin, i can see
>all of the tables in the wiki database ... i'm wondering which of all
>these tables i can just scrap to drag down the size of the underlying
>SQL database without losing just the current pages.
>
>  i suspect i haven't specified all the info necessary to get a
>meaningful answer to this, so any guidance would be appreciated. where
>should i start?
>
>rday
>
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