Forum:Wanted pages, deleted pages and User Talk: IP

Hello all,

We've recently went through a bunch of rename/deletion on rappelz wiki. What happens now is that the Wanted Pages special page is filled with pages that were deleted. Looking at what links to these delete wanted pages, one can see that it is mainly from user talk pages that have contributed to the page. Most of these talk pages are from unregistered users (IP addresses).

(On the Wanted pages special page, Template:Rocky Mountain Anatema/misc is a deleted page.)

My goal is to have the pages listed in Wanted Pages to be real pages, and not deleted ones. What is the suggested way to deal with that? Updating that manually is not an available solution (there were at least 800 pages, with 1 to 11 editors).

Thanks! Hunter789 16:43, July 8, 2011 (UTC)
 * There may be a wat to help you.
 * See this page. This is a contents of XML file I got after using Special:Export for 2 pages from your wikia.
 * As I can see, Coreanus treasure contains the title and ... contains the article contents. So in theory one can make a XML file and import into the wikia thus creating the articles.


 * But I can think of 2 problems: Getting the id`s for the pages` revisions & titles:


 * Coreanus treasure
 * 17868
 * 55168 
 * I don`t know where to get those. Unless this will be figured out, I am afraid that the only solution is creating the articles manually.
 * Teyandee 13:47, July 9, 2011 (UTC)
 * I don`t know where to get those. Unless this will be figured out, I am afraid that the only solution is creating the articles manually.
 * Teyandee 13:47, July 9, 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your input, Teyandee! However maybe I have expressed what I wanted to do the wrong way. Instead of recreating the pages, I'd like to remove the links from the anonymous user's pages to the pages that have been deleted.


 * E.g. on the Wanted Pages special page, there is a link to Template:Rocky Mountain Anatema/misc. That page existed before but has been removed because of changes in the wiki (that's what we want). Taking a look at what what links there, we see 11 User talk: [IP Address] pages. These were automatically created when the users edited the page. I'd like to remove the links from these user talk pages. I'm sure it could be done manually, but would there be a faster, more automatic way?


 * Thanks, Hunter789 18:20, July 10, 2011 (UTC)
 * You could do this with AWB fairly easily. Set up find and replace for every page you want to delink, and then build a list of "What Links Here (All NS)" (or Special:Allpages, and have it skip on no replace) with all the pages you want to delink, then run the bot --  Random Time  18:25, July 10, 2011 (UTC)


 * Ok, that way I'd still have to find all the pages that have been deleted and that need to be unlinked, but making the list of editors in AWB would speed up the process. There doesn't seem to be a way to fetch the content of WantedPages via the API but oh well, that's a start, thanks a lot! Hunter789 18:36, July 10, 2011 (UTC)
 * Try the HTML scraper --  Random Time  18:39, July 10, 2011 (UTC)

(Reset indent) Oh, well it's seems quite complex to use. I'll try to figure out how that works (advanced regex), or I'll just manually create the list. Again, thanks a lot! Hunter789 19:13, July 10, 2011 (UTC)
 * These were automatically created when the users edited the page. There's a lesson there: never put such links the the welcome message. ;)
 * 12:26, July 11, 2011 (UTC)
 * If you go to the wanted pages in your wiki and see the html, you will see that it's all there is an easy way to extract. The list is created with li for each missing page. You can use some program to get the name of the page from there.
 * Heck! Here is the list of pages for you, ordered alphabetically:
 * If you go to the wanted pages in your wiki and see the html, you will see that it's all there is an easy way to extract. The list is created with li for each missing page. You can use some program to get the name of the page from there.
 * Heck! Here is the list of pages for you, ordered alphabetically:
 * Heck! Here is the list of pages for you, ordered alphabetically:

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 * 12:42, July 11, 2011 (UTC)
 * Note that the pages that aren't in the main namespace are all together.
 * 12:49, July 11, 2011 (UTC)
 * Note that the pages that aren't in the main namespace are all together.
 * 12:49, July 11, 2011 (UTC)
 * 12:49, July 11, 2011 (UTC)
 * 12:49, July 11, 2011 (UTC)


 * That's because of the Wikia Welcome Bot, placing a link on user's and IP's talk pages about the article they just created/edited. You should edit the message that the Welcome bot places on user talk pages to make it an external link instead of a wiki link, so they don't get listed on those pages. Once that is fixed, a bot could mass delete those unneeded talk pages. --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) -WikiDex 12:59, July 11, 2011 (UTC)


 * Woa! That's a lot of help! Thanks!! I've edited both welcome messages of logged and unlogged users so that no internal links get created to edited page to prevent further problems of that nature.


 * With suggestions of Nidek (script) and Ciencia Al Poder (talk pages), should I delete the anonymous user pages? I mean... Are there any reasons why they should be kept? I know deleting them wont 'save up' disk space as everything is logged. My best guess would be that they are quite useless 5 minutes after the user edited the page :P


 * Thanks again for your help, it's much appreciated! Hunter789 17:51, July 11, 2011 (UTC)


 * If the anon edits anew, the page will get created anew for them. -- sulfur 18:17, July 11, 2011 (UTC)