[Moin-user] Lots of pages - nothing but empty edit-log???

[Rick Vanderveer]

In one word: Yes.  Just make sure to restart your wiki process (mod_wsgi or
apache) when finished to clear the process cache.  Otherwise it will appear
that the page still exists and things really get wonky (nothing harmful,
just weird behavior until the process is restarted, due to caching).

Depending on how old your wiki is, it could've been that some of these were
created around (I can't remember exactly which version) 1.7 where there was
a bug where these directories were created just by someone touching this
potentially new page.  Later, I've noticed that I will still get an
occasional mystery page; I *think* it might be caused by someone starting to
create a new page, but then backing out at the last minute (canceling? or
maybe just closing the browser window?).  They're totally a non-deal, and I
whack them with a vengeance.  Also, with our wiki, we have scenerios where
we merge the content of two pages into one, leaving behind a deleted orphan
page.  I suppose there is no harm in leaving the original, but in our case
the content is truly moved, and I just assume not have the old page around
to back up or sort through when looking at the back end.  So again, delete
and restart.  No harm done.

-Rick




On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 12:01 PM, <skip at pobox.com> wrote:

> A user of the Python Wiki was having trouble renaming a page about Vim and
> called in the cavalry (webmaster).  I found many "pages" related to Vim
> with
> all sorts of misspellings and special characters.  Most of them were just
> directories with a single, zero-length edit-log file.  I deleted a bunch
> manually but a quick find showed that most of the "pages" were actually
> such
> directories - no content.
>
> I suspect these are the remnants of a page deletion.  Is it safe to simply
> delete them?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Skip Montanaro - skip at pobox.com - http://www.smontanaro.net/
>
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