There are a handful of situations when a MediaWiki install has to be locked for some period of time. Unfortunately, many times people forget to lock their wikis; they forget to close registration; they forget to keep moderating. An example might be a course website during the summer: once final exams come around, the professor forgets to close their wiki's registration, or moderate it. Then when they return to it at the start of a new semester, they realize that spam bots have infested it and filled the pages with links and spam.
Then, they realize that they should of blocked registration, or done something. But by then it is too late. By then the spam is there, and now they are trying to figure out what to do.
UTurn is a MediaWiki extension that allows sysops to return a wiki to how it was at a specified point in time.
UTurn is a standard MediaWiki extension written in PHP with a tiny bit of javascript for the front end.
Like any other extension, drop the UTurn folder in /extensions; then include the follow line in your LocalSettings.php
wfLoadExtension('UTurn');
Once installed, simply visit myWiki/Special:UTurn while logged in as a sysop to UTurn the wiki.
After using the extension, you might want to rebuild the search index to ensure optimal performance and accuracy. To do this, use the following command in your terminal:
php maintenance/rebuildtextindex.php
This will refresh the search index, incorporating the changes brought by the extension. This may take several hours, depending on the database size and server configuration.
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Cleanup Titles: If you are having trouble deleting pages with strange titles (UTF-8 sequences), as described here: www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/mediawiki/274451, it is likely that the titles need to be cleaned up.
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Reducing the Size of the Database: Removing/archiving deleted pages from the database and can shrink it significantly.
UTurn works by listing through all the pages in the wiki and creating a new revision that matches the text of the page at the time you are UTurning to.
For more details see the inline comments.
- ext.uturn.js: Javascript for UTurn page that submits AJAX request to perform the actual UTurn.
- SpecialUTurn.php: Main File; contains all UTurn code.
- UTurn.alias.php: Aliases name of special page for other languages.
- UTurn.i18n.php: Internationalization.
- extension.json: Metadata and includes all the other files.
- ext.uturn.css: Stylizes the admin page.
1.3
- MediaWiki 1.39 support.
1.2
- Ability to automatically whitelist admins and bureaucrats.
1.1
- Whitelists added
1.0
- Passes pages by ID rather than by title.
0.3
- Bans users registered after the date
- Prettied up UI
0.2
- Fixes ALL namespaces
Tomas Reimers |
Peter Hankiewicz |
jsdiaz |
(C) President and Fellows of Harvard College, 2013
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