Extension:DeletePagesForGood

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DeletePagesForGood
Release status: stable
Implementation Page action
Description Allows users to delete pages permanently from database
Author(s) Paladoxtalk
Latest version 2.0
MediaWiki >= 1.38.0
Database changes No
Composer mediawiki/deletepagesforgood
License GNU General Public License 2.0 or later
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  • $wgDeletePagesForGoodNamespaces
  • $wgDeletePagesForGoodDeleteContent
  • deleteperm
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The DeletePagesForGood extension allows users to delete pages permanently from the database by adding a new delete tab to each page. Even if you permanently delete a page, the page title, how many edits does the page have and the time of edits can still be seen through CheckUser if you enter the user or IP address who created or edited the page.

Installation

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  • Download and move the extracted DeletePagesForGood folder to your extensions/ directory.
    Developers and code contributors should install the extension from Git instead, using:cd extensions/
    git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/DeletePagesForGood
  • Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:
    wfLoadExtension( 'DeletePagesForGood' );
    
  •   Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

User rights

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You can configure the user rights in LocalSettings.php :

Defaults from DeletePagePermanently.php:

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['deleteperm'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['deleteperm'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['bureaucrat']['deleteperm'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['deleteperm'] = true;

The extension introduces a new user rights deleteperm.

Namespaces

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To configure this, add some lines to your LocalSettings.php :

$wgDeletePagesForGoodNamespaces = [
	NS_MAIN => true,
	NS_TALK => true,
	NS_CATEGORY => true,
	NS_CATEGORY_TALK => true,
	NS_TEMPLATE => true,
	NS_TEMPLATE_TALK => true,
	NS_USER => true,
	NS_USER_TALK => true,
	NS_FILE => true,
	NS_FILE_TALK => true,
];

Built-in namespaces are described on the help page on namespaces .