I was trying to purge thousands of spam actors on my MediaWiki database in the actor table. I accidentally deleted the dozen or so real people and now the entire site is broken. I have no backup of the table or database. How can I possible restore the information even if manually readding the few rows?
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Thankfully, hosting provider had backups and was able to do a full restore.
If anyone is able to provide help on how to purge users from the User list, that would be helpful. They're gone from everywhere inclusive of spam pages they created...but still show on the Special:ListUsers page.