Archive for January 2013 Information
The config instructions don't make it clear whether specifying a maximum archive size is required or, if not, what the default maximum archive size is. —
Gordon P. Hemsley→
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23:17, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
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- There is no requirement for a maximum archive size, nor is there a default imposed.
Tiggerjay (
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23:25, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
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- So when does the counter get incremented when no value is specified? Never? —
Gordon P. Hemsley→
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00:34, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
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I'm reorganizing the talk pages at
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Puerto Rico, its subpages, and other talk pages and need the secret key so that I can consolidate everything into the month-year format. In other words, I need the bot to reorganize
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Puerto Rico/Archive 1 onto
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Puerto Rico/Archives/2007/January,
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Puerto Rico/Archives/2007/February, and so on. —
Ahnoneemoos (
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01:15, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
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Hi, I wish there was some way for links to talk page threads to be made permanent. On busy pages it is a real pain to try and follow links that have been broken by topics being shunted off to archive.
86.160.214.187 (
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00:07, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
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Misza13, do your bots archive file talk pages such as
this one? -
M0rphzone (
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04:46, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
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- It appears that Wwoods
added a MiszaBot template to this talk page in January but the bot has never run. I'm not sure why.
EdJohnston (
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05:30, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
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- Yea I noticed that too. That's why I asked, but it looks like Misza hasn't been online recently. Should we use Cluebot then? -
M0rphzone (
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06:17, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
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- Why not try Cluebot if you know the instructions for it. Per
User talk:Wwoods there are no successful examples of MiszaBot working on File talk pages.
EdJohnston (
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16:52, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
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- I've changed it to a ClueBot template. Hopefully it should work. -
M0rphzone (
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06:20, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
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- Update: Ok, ClueBot works. It archives file talk pages, but MiszaBot doesn't. -
M0rphzone (
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07:03, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
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Hi,
MiszaBot II (
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contribs) has
copied threads from
Template talk:RailGauge to
Template talk:RailGauge/Archive 1 but without deleting the same threads from
Template talk:RailGauge. This has happened three times now. --
Redrose64 (
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16:30, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
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- I fiddled the archive counter in
Template talk:RailGauge so that MiszaBot II wouldn't try to append to an existing archive, and it seems to be happy now: it has created
Template talk:RailGauge/Archive 2 moving 16 threads over. I guess there was something about the format of
Template talk:RailGauge/Archive 1 that it didn't like - that page was manually created. --
Redrose64 (
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12:45, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
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I am wondering, does the amount of time a section has to be inactive before it is archived by your bot change depending on the activeness of a talk page? If so I am wondering how this number is decided on, and if there are ways to move to change it? Like for example if a wikiproject talk page archived every 7 days, is there a way to appeal an extension to 14?
Ranze (
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16:35, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
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- To find the present MiszaBot settings for a talk page, look at the portion of that talk page which is before the first section headiing. In there you should find a {{
User:MiszaBot/config}} template. This will contain a number of parameters which hold the archival settings. For a talk page where threads are archived when they reach a certain age, there should be a
|algo = parameter; if this shows |algo = old(7d) then threads older than 7 days are eligible for archival. If all you wish to do is extend that period to 14 days, you should alter this to |algo = old(14d) --
Redrose64 (
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18:48, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
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Hi, Are there any problems with MiszaBot at the moment? It's not cleaned up my talkpage for a while now and I was wondering if there was a problem. Cheers -
SchroCat (
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19:45, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
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- Did you remember to update the {{
User:MiszaBot/config}} on
User talk:SchroCat after it was moved from
User talk:Schrodinger's cat is alive? Were all the archive pages moved? --
Redrose64 (
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20:44, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
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- Good point - now tweaked. However, the pages were not archived from some point before that, I think. I've tweaked the pages and bot, so everything should be pointing in the same direction now and I'll keep you posted. Many thanks! -
SchroCat (
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20:54, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
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- All now working - obviously it was the change of name (and my failure to re-direct the archiving) that was the problem. Many thanks indeed! -
SchroCat (
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19:01, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
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