Tech:Delete a wiki

Deleting a wiki is a fairly simple process if you have the required rights (Site Reliability Engineering) and follow the process below.

A wiki must be marked as deleted through the ManageWiki interface before it can be deleted. This is simply going to Special:ManageWiki/core/ on metawiki.

Wikis are put on a timer - meaning they can only be deleted after a certain number of days (the current Dormancy Policy states that this is 14 days). Therefore, there are two methods to delete a wiki.

Performing the deletion if 14 days have passed:
 * Run
 * You will then receive SQL DROP DATABASE syntax that you can use to run on the relevant database server.

Performing the deletion if 14 days have not passed:
 * Open up eval.php
 * Run the following code:
 * Drop the database on the relevant database server.