User:Werdnabot/Archiver/Howto
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Do not use this for article talk pages. Archiving after a time period is not appropriate for article talk pages.
[edit] How to set a talk page up for automatic archival
To set up your User talk page for automatic archival by Werdnabot, you need to add, to the top of your user talk page, the following code: {{subst:User:Werdnabot/Archiver/Template|age=(age)|target=(target)|dounreplied=(dounreplied)}}, where:
- (age) is the number of days a section must have no signed comments before it becomes eligible for archival.
- (target) is the fully-qualified name of the page to archive to. For example, my user talk page archives to User talk:Werdna648/Archive/Archive 03, and I specify this as the parameter. {{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}} expands to the same abbreviation that it would expand to in wikitext, i.e. Dec. Must be a subpage of current page unless listed at User:Werdnabot/Subpage Exceptions
- (dounreplied), if any value is given, tells Werdnabot to archive sections with one or more signed comments, as different from the default behaviour of only archiving sections with two or more signed comments.
Points to remember:
- Werdnabot reads this information by reading the wikitext of the page. Therefore, you must subst the template, and include it directly into the wikitext of the page that you want archived.
- Werdnabot will run an archival job once per day beginning about 10:00 and ending shortly after 10:30.
- Only sections containing time-stamps such as those generated by signed comments will be archived by Werdnabot.
- You can view the output of Werdnabot's archival job at https://www.epstone.net/WPA-output.txt.
- Due to technical difficulties, Werdnabot may not run archival jobs all the time.
- You can view the log of all Werdnabot actions at User:Werdna648/Werdnabot/Log.
- If you have your user talk page archived by Werdnabot, you will receive a "new messages" prompt after Werdnabot archives your User talk page.
- I am always contactable on my talk page for any problems to do with Werdnabot's archival functionality.
- When substituting, replace the parentheses as well. So "age=(age)" might become "age=14" (for fourteen days) but NOT "age=(14)".
- Do NOT put "[[" and "]]" around your archive file name when substituting.
- Be careful to get the capitalization correct in your file name. For example, use "User talk" rather than "user talk" or "User Talk".
- The sections which are archived are delimited by a title between two doubled equal signs ("==") at the beginning of a line, any other type of heading will not be recognized as a section header.
