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Wikidata on beta is getting too many edits
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Beta wikidatawiki is having at least 1 new property and 1 new item created every minute, and this seems excessive

It makes running maintenance scripts take a long time, and I don't think making an edit every minute gives any useful information if the code isn't actually changing

(diff | hist) . . N (Q358337)‎; 06:43 . . (+302)‎ . . ‎10.68.21.186 (talk)‎ (‎Created a new item)
(diff | hist) . . N (P163708)‎; 06:42 . . (+309)‎ . . ‎Selenium user (talk | contribs)‎ (‎Created a new property)
(diff | hist) . . N (Q358336)‎; 06:42 . . (+302)‎ . . ‎10.68.21.186 (talk)‎ (‎Created a new item)
(diff | hist) . . N (P163707)‎; 06:41 . . (+309)‎ . . ‎Selenium user (talk | contribs)‎ (‎Created a new property)

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@Reedy Is this still seen as being an issue?

Looks like our browser tests still make suite some edits.

https://wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges?hidebots=1&hidecategorization=1&limit=250&days=30&urlversion=2

Indeed, perhaps T168104 is the solution, we could just mass delete a bunch of entities made by browser tests.

Deleting periodically would be fine too.

https://wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:Statistics doesn't look bad atm with just under 200K pages

Deleting periodically would be fine too.

A delete within mediawiki,
or a "real" delete / removal?