Thread:Project:Support desk/Hacked page, unable to delete/reply (8)

Your page currently is deleted and returns a 404 error. Google will notice and will update its index accordingly. When you use the nukePage.php script, MediaWiki will still output exactly the same - the only difference is that you will be unable to restore the spam later (and I think you do not want to restore it). However, for Google the page still returns a 404 error.

As Ciencia said, you can use Google Webmaster tools in order to make Google re-index the page faster. I don't know, if that really changes anything - on the next indexing, Google will update its index anyway.

The idea to update MediaWiki is really what you should do! Yur MediaWiki version is really old and has tons of known security holes. If you do not update, it is only a matter of time until you will be hacked again. You will have to update MySQL to 5.0 or newer first. Then you can update MediaWiki to 1.19.

If you also update PHP to PHP 5.3 or newer, then you will be able to update MediaWiki to version 1.22.