Thread:Project:Support desk/Permanent deletion?/reply (9)

In this situation you basically have two options:

1. You export those pages, which are OK and import them in a new MediaWiki install.

2. You keep your original install and delete the spam pages. Afterwards you can run the maintenance script deleteArchivedRevisions.php, which actually removes those revisions, which have been deleted before. If you only want to remove selected revisions from the archive table, you cn also just remove the according rows in MySQL. Afterwards, run Manual:PurgeOldText.phppurgeOldText.php to also remove the according texts.