Manual:deleteOrphanedRevisions.php

MediaWiki version:

≥ 1.4

MediaWiki file: deleteOrphanedRevisions.php
Location:	maintenance/
Source code:	master • 1.42.4 • 1.41.5 • 1.39.11
Classes:	DeleteOrphanedRevisions

Details

deleteOrphanedRevisions.php is a maintenance script to delete revisions which refer to a non-existing page. It is useful to deal with any orphaned revisions left over after manual deletions of page records from the database. After removing revisions, the script also runs purgeOldText.php to purge unused text records.

Warning:

This script attempts to remove unused entries from the text table, which can cause potential data loss.

Options

Option	Description	Required
--report	Prints out a count of affected revisions but doesn't delete them.	Optional

Usage

php maintenance/run.php deleteOrphanedRevisions [ --report ]

Terminal

$ php maintenance/run.php deleteOrphanedRevisions

Delete Orphaned Revisions
Checking for orphaned revisions...found 7.
Deleting...
done.

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

• deleteRevision.php
• deduplicateArchiveRevId.php
• deleteOldRevisions.php