Re: Second JS bulk upload

On 11/25/2013 1:01 PM, Renoir Boulanger wrote:
> It turns out MediaWiki doesn't allow delete pages and sub pages in an automated process. It means that we would have to run it via the database.

Not necessarily.  A script could do it if the user were Administrator 
and had delete page rights.  The script I'm using to upload is modified 
to allow a delete a page.  But I don't have the right so I can't test it 
on repeated pages.  I had hoped to pass the output of the "list things 
starting with Tests/javascript-a" command into the delete command in the 
script.

To delete, I'd have to be an Administrator:
     http://docs.webplatform.org/test/Special:ListGroupRights

On the above page, what is this?
     Mass delete pages |(nuke)

|Is that some special extension to delete a lot of pages all at once?  
Maybe this:
     http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Nuke

If so, you have the power!  On our wiki at work, we have a normal page 
called "request for deletion", where people put their delete page 
requests.  If it's reasonable the administrator (me and a couple of 
others) perform the delete and remove it from the page. It keeps 
accidental deletes of important information from being unnoticed since 
we have no bot patrolling things with an elaborate alerting system like 
wikipedia.  Maybe you can use a "request for deletion" page coupled with 
your nuke extention and you have all you need as wiki Administrator.