Thread:Project:Support desk/Permanent deletion?

Okay, so here is an example vandalism scene I replayed in a test installation of MediaWiki:
 * 1) 127.0.0.1 replaces the Main Page with nonsense
 * 2) Administrator reverts the edit
 * 3) 127.0.0.1 replaces the Main Page with nonsense again
 * 4) Administrator reverts the edit
 * 5) Administrator protects the Main Page
 * 6) 127.0.0.1 copies off the article about MediaWiki on Wikipedia (a copyrighted source) and pastes it on Test Wiki
 * 7) Administrator deletes the "MediaWiki" page
 * 8) 127.0.0.1 pastes Wikipedia's article about MediaWiki on Test Wiki again
 * 9) Administrator deletes the "MediaWiki" page again

However, the pages with their content, revision entries and so on remain in the database.

Therefore, the database size unnessecarily increases nearly 1MB and, if the full database is available publicly, especially speaking for the copyright violation, anyone can look at the database dump to see the page which violated copyright law.

Will there ever be a way to permanently delete pages along with the regular way to delete pages in MediaWiki (completely remove them from the database, although the permanently-deleted pages cannot be restored) and solve any of the problems with deleted pages remaining in the database just so another administrator can restore it? --218.186.15.10 07:22, 7 March 2012 (UTC)