Manual:cleanupSpam.php

MediaWiki version:

≥ 1.6

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

Details

cleanupSpam.php file is a maintenance script to cleanup all spam links, which are pointing to a given hostname. The script will use the username, which has been provided in MediaWiki:Spambot username to attribute the resulting edits to. The script checks each of the respective wikis for external links to the given hostname. In case a page contains a link to that host, the script goes backwards in the history of the page, until the host is no longer on the page. The script will then revert the page to that revision.

Options/Arguments

Option/Argument	Description	Required?
<hostname>	Hostname that was spamming and that you want to get rid of (e.g. google.com). A single * wildcard in the beginning is allowed. For example: php maintenance/cleanupSpam.php google.com	Optional
--all	Check all wikis in ($wgLocalDatabases ). With this option, the script will loop through all of these wikis. Without --all, it will check the current wiki only.	Optional
--delete	If a page does not have any revision without the spammy hostname, the script by default blanks that page. If --delete is provided, it instead deletes the according pages.	Optional

Usage

php maintenance/run.php cleanupSpam <hostname> [ --all| --delete ]

Terminal

$ php maintenance/run.php cleanupSpam example.com

Found 2 articles containing example.com
MediaWiki:Menubar ....blanking
Main_Page ...blanking

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.

See also

• Manual:Combating spam
• cleanupBlocks.php
• blockUsers.php