In order to help the LangCom make a decission with regards to the proposal of wiki deletion, I'd like to know how many complications you'd expect to face if the databases from aa.wikibooks and aa.wiktionary; and howiki as well. Please note that the wikis are locked for ~10 years now so I guess not so much data will be there. Thanks.
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Deleting it just from the database can create inconsistencies. I wouldn't feel too comfortable just issuing a drop database in production. I would rather get mediawiki handle its deleting and all the related checks to be honest.
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Does "I would rather get mediawiki handle its deleting and all the related checks to be honest." mean you would like to have a function in MediaWiki that can delete the wiki's database? Or just that the pages in the wiki should be deleted using the normal MediaWiki interface?
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What exactly is the purpose of deleting wikis? It provides no benefit and is more likely to break things.
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Maybe it's just me, but when it comes that a project is dead, absolutely dead, with no content and no chances of revival I feel deletion makes a lot of sense. I do not conceive having a site up and running to display just a main page and nothing else; and it is not that deletion would break horribly. As far as I know, the centralauth table for that wiki should be cleaned and the rest of them can be just DROP-ed, according to the Wikitech docs. If there are other background processes or data that needs to be updated as part of the deletion, please document them for the future. Thanks.