About

This macro lists all deleted pages of the wiki which have been deleted by ?action=delete but still remain on disk. Sorted by title the acls of the pages are shown as well as links to easiliy unerase or completely purge ("nuke") a page from the filesystem. You have to be superuser to call this macro.

This macro is designed to give wiki admins a helping hand in doing a good job - especially to avoid problems when normal users without admin rights try to recreate a deleted page with acl settings (see MoinMoinBugs/ACLexistsOnDeletedPageAndPreventsForCreation and MoinMoinBugs/AclErrorOnUndeletedPage).

Installing

Step 1

Install DeletedPages.py in Moin's macro directory.

Install purge.py in Moin's action directory.

Step 2

Create a new wikipage DeletedPages in the underlay dir:

## Please edit system and help pages ONLY in the moinmaster wiki! For more
## information, please see MoinMaster:MoinPagesEditorGroup.
##master-page:Unknown-Page
##master-date:Unknown-Date
#acl MoinPagesEditorGroup:read,write,delete,revert All:read
#format wiki
#language en
This is an index of all deleted pages in this Wiki.  

----

<<DeletedPages>>

You may also change the acls so that only superusers are able to view the page.

Step 3

Make sure you are superuser with read, write, delete, revert, admin rights and have a try now. But be aware: completely nuking files does really work

If the DeletedPages macro is too slow for you, you can also try this low-level-version which should be much, much faster: DeletedPages_lowlevel.py

Note

This macro seems to not working with MoinMoin 1.9.3. -- MartinK 2010-09-07 09:45:41

To fix the errors with MoinMoin 1.9.9 you need to make the following two changes:

• delete one import line in DeletedPages.py

  • --- /tmp/DeletedPages.py        2018-04-21 22:07:44.863476067 +0200
    +++ plugin/macro/DeletedPages.py        2018-04-21 23:17:22.545744772 +0200
    @@ -30,7 +30,6 @@
     
     import os
     from MoinMoin import wikiutil
    -from MoinMoin import wikimacro
     from MoinMoin import user
     from MoinMoin.Page import Page

• fix send_page parameters

  • --- /tmp/purge.py       2018-04-21 22:08:11.167593920 +0200
    +++ plugin/action/purge.py      2018-04-21 22:52:52.938391506 +0200
    @@ -51,5 +51,6 @@
             else:
                 result = _('Page does not exist.')
                     
    -    Page(request, pagename).send_page(request, result)
    +    request.theme.add_msg(result, "info")
    +    Page(request, pagename).send_page()