Manual:deleteEqualMessages.php

MediaWiki version:

≥ 1.21

MediaWiki file: deleteEqualMessages.php
Location:	maintenance/
Source code:	master • 1.43.0 • 1.42.4 • 1.39.11
Classes:	DeleteEqualMessages

Details

deleteEqualMessages.php file is a maintenance script to delete all pages in the MediaWiki namespace of which the content is equal to the system default. This is useful to make sure all messages will be pulled from TranslateWiki.net once wiki is upgraded.

Options/Arguments

Option	Description	Required?
--delete	Does the deletion of the pages.	Optional
--delete-talk	Delete talk pages as well; do not leave orphaned talk pages behind. Should be used together with "--delete".	Optional
--lang-code	Check for subpages of this lang-code (default: root page against content language)	Optional

Usage

php maintenance/run.php deleteEqualMessages [ --delete| --delete-talk| --lang-code ]

In MediaWiki version 1.39.10 and earlier, you must invoke maintenance scripts using php maintenance/scriptName.php instead of php maintenance/run.php scriptName.

Checking potential deletion

Terminal

$ php maintenance/run.php deleteEqualMessages

Checking for pages with default message...
... fetching message info for content language
1 pages in the MediaWiki namespace override messages.
1 pages are equal to the default message (+ 0 talk pages).

List:
* MediaWiki:Mywatchlist

Run the script again with --delete to delete these pages

Making actual deletion