I just clean old abusefilters that was still enable, I think that we can do the same thing for pages. For example, after a 3year period.
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Yes in the first case, and probably others testwikis later.
It can concern main NS, templates and modules that are not linked with other pages or with pages that are old too.
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I asked, because you set the beta-as project, since test.wikipedia is not in that. If you want to run this bot on test2wiki, or on some wikis in the beta-cluster, you can ask me, I can assign you bot+sysop permissions then. (But I can't do that for testwiki).
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So, to make sure I'm reading this right:
Bot goes there each page not editing in the last year
- Skips pages with incoming links
- Skips templates and modules with existing transclusions
- Skips categories with pages in them
And deletes the page? If this is a correct understanding, I should be able to do this
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Yes, that's it.
But this work may have some unknown impact (I'm thinking about tests, demos... that should not be edited). A small discussion (where?) may be needed prior the action.
On the other hand, it would be pretty easy and quick to restore deleted pages that are still used, manually or with better process.
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I'm happy to write the bot, but I don't know where a discussion should be help - can you start one and let me know what the result is?
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Is deletion and cleaning of old pages even needed? Content of various ages and styles could potentially be helpful when using testwiki to test things I would imagine? Unless testwiki is getting overrun with spam which is a separate discussion.