Manual:deleteBatch.php

MediaWiki File: deleteBatch.php
Location:	maintenance/
Source code:	master 1.20.6 • 1.19.7
Classes:	None

deleteBatch.php is a maintenance script located in the maintenance directory that can be used to delete a batch of pages.

Usage

 php deleteBatch.php somepages.txt  

(This will delete the pages contained in the text file "somepages.txt")

On a wiki farm with linked folders, change to folder containing LocalSettings.php and use:

php ./maintenance/deleteBatch.php  --conf ./LocalSettings.php -r "reason for deletion" ./deleteBatch.txt

Option/Parameter	Description
-u <user>	Username that will be shown in the log entries. If left empty, deletions will be attributed to the user called Delete page script.
-r <reason>	Reason for deletions. If empty, no reason will be shown in the logs.
-i <interval>	Number of seconds to sleep after each deletion.
<listfile>	A file (located in the maintenance directory) where each line contains the title of a page to be deleted.

See also

• Extension:DeleteBatch — special page extension of this maintenance script.