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.navbar{float:left;text-align:left;margin-right:0.5em;width:6em}</style><span class="noprint plainlinks navbar" style=""><small><span style="white-space:nowrap;word-spacing:-.12em;"><a href="/wiki/Template:Pywikibot" title="Template:Pywikibot"><span style="" title="View this template">v</span></a><span style=""> <b>·</b> </span><a class="external text" href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template_talk:Pywikibot"><span style="" title="Discuss this template">d</span></a><span style=""> <b>·</b> </span><a class="external text" href="https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Pywikibot&action=edit"><span style="" title="Edit this template">e</span></a></span></small></span></td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p>This script can be used to delete and undelete pages en masse. You will need an admin account on the relevant wiki. Also add: </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-python mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="n">usernames</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">'wikipedia'</span><span class="p">][</span><span class="s1">'en'</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s1">'adminname'</span> </pre></div> <p>to <code>user-config.py</code>, where <code>['wikipedia']</code> is the name of the the family in which you are working on, and <code>'adminname'</code> is the username. </p><p>Syntax: </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-shell-session mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>python<span class="w"> </span>pwb.py<span class="w"> </span>delete<span class="w"> </span><span class="o">[</span>-cat:categoryName<span class="p">|</span>-page:pageName<span class="p">|</span>...<span class="o">]</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">[</span>-summary:<span class="s2">"text"</span><span class="o">]</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">[</span>-undelete<span class="o">]</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">[</span>-always<span class="o">]</span> </pre></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Arguments">Arguments</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Manual:Pywikibot/delete.py&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Arguments"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>-page: Delete specified page</li> <li>-ref: Delete all pages referring from a given page.</li> <li>-images: Delete all images used on a given page.</li> <li>-cat: Delete all pages in the given category.</li> <li>-links: Delete all pages linked from a given page.</li> <li>-always Don't prompt to delete pages, just do it.</li> <li>-summary: Supply a custom edit summary.</li> <li>-undelete: Actually undelete pages instead of deleting. Works only with -page and -file.</li> <li>-file: Delete all pages listed in a given text file. The list should be of the format <ul><li><code># [[page1]] </code></li> <li><code># [[page2]]</code></li> <li><code><i>etc.</i></code></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Examples">Examples</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Manual:Pywikibot/delete.py&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Examples"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Delete everything in the category "To delete" without prompting.</li></ul> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-shell-session mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>python<span class="w"> </span>pwb.py<span class="w"> </span>delete<span class="w"> </span>-cat:<span class="s2">"To delete"</span><span class="w"> </span>-always </pre></div> <ul><li>Delete everything in the pages linked to the page, without prompting.</li></ul> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-shell-session mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>python<span class="w"> </span>pwb.py<span class="w"> </span>delete<span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">"deletepage"</span><span class="w"> </span>-always </pre></div> <ul><li>Delete everything in the speedy deletion category on the English Wikibooks.</li></ul> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-shell-session mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>python<span class="w"> </span>pwb.py<span class="w"> </span>delete<span class="w"> </span>-lang:en<span class="w"> </span>-family:wikibooks<span class="w"> </span>-cat:<span class="s2">"Candidates for speedy deletion"</span> </pre></div> <ul><li>Delete pages inside a text file:</li></ul> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-shell-session mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>python<span class="w"> </span>pwb.py<span class="w"> </span>delete<span class="w"> </span>-file:nuke.txt<span class="w"> </span>-always<span class="w"> </span>-summary:<span class="s2">"Because I feel like it"</span> </pre></div> <p>The format of the text file should be as the following: </p> <pre># [[Main Page]] # [[Talk:Main Page]] </pre> <ul><li>Restore pages:</li></ul> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-shell-session mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>python<span class="w"> </span>pwb.py<span class="w"> </span>delete<span class="w"> </span>-undelete<span class="w"> </span>-file:respawn.txt<span class="w"> </span>-summary:<span class="s2">"It was a foolish mistake"</span> </pre></div> <p><br /> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Global_arguments_available">Global arguments available</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r6870138">.mw-parser-output table.ambox{margin:0 10%;width:unset;border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);border-left:10px solid var(--border-color-progressive,#36c);background-color:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa);box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output table.ambox+table.ambox,.mw-parser-output table.ambox+link+table.ambox,.mw-parser-output table.ambox+style+table.ambox{margin-top:-1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox td.mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox th.mbox-text,.mw-parser-output .ambox td.mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox td.mbox-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em}.mw-parser-output .ambox td.mbox-imageright{padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0}.mw-parser-output table.ambox-notice{border-left-color:var(--border-color-progressive,#36c)}.mw-parser-output table.ambox-speedy{background-color:var(--background-color-error-subtle,#fee7e6)}.mw-parser-output table.ambox-delete,.mw-parser-output table.ambox-speedy{border-left-color:var(--background-color-error--active,#b32424)}.mw-parser-output table.ambox-content{border-left-color:#f28500}.mw-parser-output table.ambox-style{border-left-color:#fc3}.mw-parser-output table.ambox-move{border-left-color:#9932cc}.mw-parser-output table.ambox-protection{border-left-color:var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1)}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small{clear:right;float:right;margin:4px 0 4px 1em;box-sizing:border-box;width:238px;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}</style><table class="plainlinks ambox box-Update ambox-content ambox-Update metadata" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div style="width:52px"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Gnome-appointment-soon.svg/45px-Gnome-appointment-soon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="45" height="45" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Gnome-appointment-soon.svg/68px-Gnome-appointment-soon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Gnome-appointment-soon.svg/90px-Gnome-appointment-soon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="48" data-file-height="48" /></span></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This page is <b>outdated</b>. <div class="hide-when-compact" style="display:inline;">It was written for an older version of MediaWiki and may not apply to the most recent version. 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Default is user-config.py.</td> <td><code>user-config.py</code></td> </tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top"> <td><code>-lang:xx</code></td> <td>Set the language of the wiki you want to work on, overriding the configuration in user-config.py. xx should be the language code.</td> <td><code>mylang</code></td> </tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top"> <td><code>-family:xyz</code></td> <td>Set the family of the wiki you want to work on, e.g. wikipedia, wiktionary, wikitravel, ... This will override the configuration in user-config.py.</td> <td><code>family</code></td> </tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top"> <td><code>-user:xyz</code></td> <td>Log in as user 'xyz' instead of the default username.</td> <td><code>usernames</code></td> </tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top"> <td><code>-daemonize:xyz</code></td> <td>Immediately return control to the terminal and redirect stdout and stderr to file xyz. 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