Purge deleted properties

Hello all.

After i create a property with "Special:property" and delete it, whenever i go to "Special:createTemplate" i can still choose it as an element of the template (even if it should no longer exist). I understand that property itself does not longer exist (does not have nothing on it), and that when you use it, you are kind of creating it.

Anyway, i would like that after deleting it, it´s name also dissapeared, as if it had never existed before, so does not show up when you want to create a template.

How could i do this?

Thanks.

Maiser (talk)

My Versions: MediaWiki: 1.25.1 | PHP: 5.6.8 | MySQL: 5.6.24 Semantic MediaWiki: 2.2.1

If you have articles that use the deleted property; you will continue to see the deleted property among existing properties. Cleaning up articles to remove references to the deleted property can help.

I have also seen improvement by using maintenance scripts.

Deleting Unused Content

deleteOldRevisions.php

This deletes old revisions from the database.

php deleteOldRevisions.php --delete

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:DeleteOldRevisions.php

deleteArchivedRevisions.php

This deletes deleted pages from the database.

php deleteArchivedRevisions.php --delete

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:DeleteArchivedRevisions.php

Hurrying Jobs

The folowing speeds up pending jobs.

runJobs.php

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Replace_Text#Known_issues

It is demanding and can freeze the server, so I don't do it.

The following is less demanding and does not freeze the server.

php runJobs.php --maxjobs 1000

I run this from an XAMPP cmd window of the Maintenance directory. It runs pretty fast. It does not remove phantom properties by itself.

You may may have already done enough to remove the phantom property and just be waiting for the job that eliminates references to it. In that case this will help.

AKSHA (talk)

Please see Help:Entity deletion.

James Hong Kong (talk)