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
Download	Download extension Git [?]: Download Git master browse repository (Phabricator · GitHub) commit history repository contributors (GitHub) code review
Parameters $wgDeletePagesForGoodNamespaces $wgDeletePagesForGoodDeleteContent
Added rights deleteperm
Hooks used SkinTemplateNavigation::Universal
Quarterly downloads	14 (Ranked 122nd)
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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.

When a page is permanently deleted, it removes the title from all users' watchlist.

Limitations

A page being permanently deleted is like deleting a file on a hard drive. It does not necessarily ensure all references to the page have been purged from the files storing the database, or the hard drive that those files are stored on.

Installation

• 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

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

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 .