== Preamble ==
The MediaWiki https://wiki.wikimedia.it/ has a namespace called `Direttivo:` that was designed to be a reserved space for board members. That namespace is not readable by any normal registered user and, as a consequence, after some years, it seems now nobody 100% knows (board, staff, ecc.) what this namespace contains.
This namespace was also useful to write drafts, but now this practice is not in use anymore by the board. The drafts are now written on nextCloud or Etherpad.
== Description of the issue ==
At the moment the wiki has a stable situation where our access levels just work but stuff like T270456 make us believe that it is very delicate to maintain this architecture. This creates a deadlock where you don't want to be able to update your software because you don't know if this could reveal a whole range of confidential information.
See also:
* https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Security_issues_with_authorization_extensions
At the same time, the wiki is somehow growing and the provider asked us to keep our resources in mind to optionally do something (delete something, ecc.). Just to say that it may be related to T279144 or not.
== Proposed solution ==
It was requested to export the whole `Direttivo:` namespace from https://wiki.wikimedia.it/ to then delete these contents from the wiki.
Once exported, these contents should be archived elsewhere (nextCloud?) for historical purposes.
The content should be exported in two ways:
* machine readable (XML?)
* human readable (txt? HTML? ODT better maybe)
Further notes:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Export