Manual:DeleteBatch.php/en

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

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

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

Tips and Tricks
In case the page titles contain special characters (like ä, ö, ü and so on), make sure to save the file in UTF-8 encoding. Otherwise the script may not be able to find the according page names inside the database!

You can create a pagelist with SQL as follows:

This would create a list with all page titles touched between 2015-04-31 and 2015-05-19. This might be helpful if your wiki got attacked by spambots, and other edits happened during that time.