Extension:DeleteHistory

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DeleteHistory Release status: stable
Implementation	Special page
Description	Delete history and optimize MySQL database to win a lot of disk space
Author(s)	Pierre Mavro (Pmavrotalk)
Last version	0.5
MediaWiki	1.14+
License	GNU General Public Licence 2.0
Download	Snapshot
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This extension:

• Deletes old unwanted information in history
• Frees up to 90% disk space in the MediaWiki database

Prerequisite

• Be sure you've got php5-cli installed. If you're under Debian like OS :

aptitude install php5-cli

Installation

Method 1

Download the latest snapshot version and uncompress it in your extensions directory (ex. /var/www/mediawiki/extensions) :

wget -O DeleteHistory.tgz "http://git.deimos.fr/?p=mediawiki_DeleteHistory.git;a=snapshot;h=HEAD;sf=tgz"
mkdir DeleteHistory
tar -xzf DeleteHistory.tgz --strip 1 -C DeleteHistory
rm -f DeleteHistory.tgz

Method 2

Clone it via Git :

git clone http://git.deimos.fr/git/mediawiki_DeleteHistory.git DeleteHistory

Configuration

• Edit your LocalSettings.php and add those lines :

# DeleteHistory
$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['DeleteHistory'] = true;
include('extensions/DeleteHistory/DeleteHistory.php');

• That's all, now you can go in Special Pages and try the DeleteHistory extension. If you don't see anything new, it's because you don't have the admin privileges.

User rights

If you don't see anything new, it's because you don't have the admin privileges.

Usage

Go into Special Page to delete history.

Changelog

v0.6

Adding German language

v0.5

Adding Engine and Collation tables informations when requesting optimization. It helps to understand the result of it.

v0.4.1

• Fix some vulnerability

v0.4

• Compatible with MediaWiki 1.18

v0.3

• Show in KB or MB in the database space won when an optimize runs
• Changed shown order (Result,Optimisation Status,Logs)
• Added arrays style to results

v0.2

• Compatible with MediaWiki 1.16

v0.1

• First release