Deleting pages having the badge Delete This Page

• For moin up to 1.2.x only.

Until there is an integrated solution for deleting pages matching some criteria, at least Linux/UNIX users can use this script. We use the DeleteThisPage WikiBadge (without the markup) to mark pages to be deleted.

If there is no activity on these pages and they do not exceed a maximum size (enough for the badge and a redirect or other short info), they get removed automatically.

Calling the script via /etc/cron.daily/pagereaper:

/usr/local/bin/PageReaper.sh /home/of/my/wiki

PagerReaper.sh:

# Page reaper for Wikis
# search directory PAGES for pages that contain the string DeleteThisPage and were not written to in the last DAYS days.
# The found pages will be moved to the DELETED directory with a UNIX timestamp attached.
# NO WARRANTY. USE ON OWN RISK. Released under GPL.

# give base directory on the commandline
PAGES=$1/data/text
DELETED=../deleted

DAYS=14
MAXSIZE=100
DELETEBADGE=DeleteThisPage

DATE=`date +%s`
cd $PAGES
if [ -f StartSeite ] || [ -f FrontPage  ]; then
  mkdir $DELETED 2>/dev/null
  for i in `find -mtime +$DAYS -size -$MAXSIZE -exec grep -l $DELETEBADGE {} \;` ; do
    FN=`basename $i`
    mv $FN $DELETED/$FN.$DATE
    if [ -d CVS ]; then
      cvs remove $FN > /dev/null
    fi
  done
else
  echo "No Wiki here."
fi