Dashboard/Files/Deletion
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This page allows you to delete unused images in your image databases.
Overview [edit]
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Wikipedia is constantly changing. Every moment, articles and images are added and deleted.
XOWA updates images on a monthly basis. However, these updates only add new images. They do not delete old unused images.
XOWA will soon move to a smarter update platform that will process adds and deletes automatically. In the meantime, you will need to process deletes manually.
Delete images using a database [edit]
This is a two-step process (Press Expand to reveal more notes):
(1) Choose a file deletion database:
- These files are available at archive.org. The latest deletion database is https://archive.org/download/Xowa_enwiki_latest/en.wikipedia.org-file-deletion-2017.02.xowa
- They are only available for English Wikipedia. Other wikis are available on request.
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They have a format like the following:
en.wikipedia.org-file-core-deletion_db-2016.03.xowa
(2) Press Delete.
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Note that this may take a few hours to run
- For English Wikipedia, it will delete 400,000 images from your databases and compress your databases by 8 GB.
- You can continue to use the wiki during this time.
- If you shutdown XOWA, you can return and resume.
- When the deletion completes, XOWA will remove the deletion database