MediaWiki:Tips and tricks

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Adding TOC

To add a contents menu to a page that does not have enough headings use this:

__TOC__

or

__FORCETOC__

Deleting Revisions

The slow way is to do it page by page. This is the fast way.

Make a backup as this cannot be undone.

Warning: You will loose your revision history. 

To delete old revisions that are needlessly increasing the size of your backup, first navigate to the /maintenance directory. Then, run this:

php deleteOldRevisions.php  --delete

The terminal display should show something like this:

Delete Old Revisions

Searching for active revisions...done.
Searching for inactive revisions...done.
1406 old revisions found.
Deleting...done.
Searching for active text records in revisions table...done.
Searching for active text records in archive table...done.
Searching for inactive text records...done.
1398 inactive items found.
Deleting...done.