Thanks for the suggestions - I’ve tried these ideas on my own installs (10.11.9 on Tomcat 9.0.26 with MySql 5.7.29) and the xwiki playground and it still is showing activity from outside the desired pages.
http://playground.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Sandbox/
Can someone take a look at the playground today and tell me if I’m crazy?