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In order to edit/view this page here you will need to revert User:ClueBot III/Indices/User:ClueBot III/Documentation to a version that is short. ClueBot III routinely updates that page with a large number of articles. That page is transcluded into the archive boxes produced by the ClueBot III template. It only results in a problem when viewing this documentation page, not when this page is transcluded onto where it is normally viewed: User:ClueBot III. |
Cluebot III is currently underperforming when confronted with large collections of archive pages for the same talk page (around 200 archive pages for the same talk page seems to be a maximum that should not be exceeded). The issue is discussed at User talk:Jimbo Wales/Archive_202#Conspiracy Unveiled. Please don't remove this warning before all related issues are resolved. --Francis Schonken (talk) 11:02, 27 January 2016 (UTC) |
How your page is archived
- ClueBot III can be used to automatically archive sections/threads from a given page. Usually the page you are archiving from will be a talk page. Your archive pages can be numbered, or organized by date. Combinations of dates and numbering are also possible. This is configured by the arguments used for the format and archiveprefix parameters. Please see the parameter descriptions and examples for a few of the many ways to do this.
- Archiving by date doesn't means storing according to the last date of each section, but storing according to the archiving decision. Better use {{User:MiszaBot/Archive HowTo}} if you want to segment a talk page according to the dates of the threads.
- Archive boxes. ClueBot III gives you two methods for configuring an archive box. You can set
archivebox=yes
and use the cosmetic parameters to configure the archive box provided by {{User:ClueBot III/ArchiveThis}}. Or you can setarchivebox=yes|index=true
. Then template {{User:ClueBot III/ArchiveThis}} will result into the transclusion a ClueBot III generated list of archive pages (that can be used inside an {{archivebox}} template. This is useful when archiving is organized by date rather than only by number. When using the standard archiving by number, the various archive box templates can be configured to automatically detect the archive pages. For more information, see the index and archivebox parameters. - Keeping linked, i.e. updating the links to the archived threads. Once a series of threads is archived, ClueBot III looks for all pages that could have been linked to the moved parts, and updates the links that need to be fixed. When a page is linked to a huge number of others pages, the process takes a lot of time. In fact, only the links to an internal anchor of the page should be checked. In any case, this is the reason of collapse described at User talk:Jimbo Wales/Archive_202#Conspiracy Unveiled. Said more clearly: don't use ClueBot III on a page where the what links here are large.
- In addition to archiving your page, ClueBot III can also generate an index of all your archive pages. Assuming that you are archiving the page Talk:YourPage, the archive index generated by Cluebot III is located at:
User:ClueBot III/Master Detailed Indices/Talk:YourPage
You can make use of this either directly or by transcluding it onto your Talk:YourPage/Archive index page. One way to use this directly would be to include it as the archive index page in your archive box. For example:
{{Archives |auto= short |index= User:ClueBot III/Master Detailed Indices/{{FULLPAGENAME}} |search= yes |bot= ClueBot III |age= 90}}
will produce an archive box with an appropriate link to your index. If you want to use this index with the {{talk header}} template you will need to transclude it onto your Talk:YourPage/Archive index page. To do so you would put the text:
{{User:ClueBot III/Master Detailed Indices/{{NAMESPACE}}:{{BASEPAGENAME}}}}
on your Talk:YourPage/Archive index page.
General template format
The general format for the archive template:
{{User:ClueBot III/ArchiveThis |archiveprefix= |format= |age= }}
Required parameters
age
Type: unsigned integer
Default: 0
Description: This parameter must be set to the number of hours a thread can go without a reply before it should be archived. If you do not set it all threads will qualify to be archived.
archiveprefix
Type: string
Default: "{{FULLPAGENAME}}/Archives/"
Description: This parameter must be set to a fully qualified page name under the page you wish to archive. For example, if User talk:Cobi was being archived using dated archives, then archiveprefix=User talk:Cobi/Archives/
would be used. For the same page being archived with numbered archives, archiveprefix=User talk:Cobi/Archive
would be appropriate. If you do not set this argument, or if you set it to something invalid, then the default value will be used. However, not setting this parameter correctly can have some strange results. The {{FULLPAGENAME}} variable can not actually be passed to ClueBot III. The fully qualified page name must be hard coded. The easiest way to do this is to use immediate substitution such as:
For archives organized by date enter:
|archiveprefix={{subst:FULLPAGENAME}}/Archives/
For numbered archives enter (note /Archive instead of /Archives/):
|archiveprefix={{subst:FULLPAGENAME}}/Archive
format
Type: string
Default: ""
Description: This parameter must be set to a valid argument to PHP's date() function. You may also include an %%i value. %%i is for numbered archives instead of dated archives, and is replaced with the archive number. Once variable substitution has occurred it will be concatenated onto the end of the value of archiveprefix. The result of the concatenation will be the the name of the archive page(s). See examples. Most commonly, for archives organized by date use:
|format=Y/F
.
This gives "Archives/2016/January". In order to obtain "Archives/2016/01 (January)", use |format='Y/m (F)'
.
For numbered archives use:
|format= %%i
Note for date based archives: Cluebot III stores files into a single archive page each time it runs. With date based archives, the page name is whatever archiveprefix concatenated with format is for the date that is NOW-age (where age is in hours). For example, if you are starting up YYYY/Month archiving from scratch with many old threads in the page being archived, ClueBot II will put all of the threads into a single file, not multiple files. If you want a single archiving run to be split into multiple files based on the last date in each thread you will need to use MiszaBot III (lowercase sigmabot III).
Optional parameters
These parameters are shaping the behavior of the archiver.
archivenow
Type: comma delimited array of strings
Default: ""
Description: This optional parameter should contain a comma separated list of strings for which ClueBot III will search within the threads on the page. If any of these strings are found in a thread, the bot will archive the thread immediately. The bot will also convert {{templates}} in this list to {{tl|escaped templates}} upon archival. This could be useful for pages where {{resolved}} or such is used. The {{User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}} blank template is available for this use. However, it has no special properties. It is only just another string that happens to be a template for which ClueBot III can be told to search. In addition to the following typical usage, an example of its use is shown below.
Typical usage: |archivenow=<nowiki>{{User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}}</nowiki>
header
Type: string
Default: "{{Talkarchive}}"
Description: When creating a new archive page, the bot will put this at the top of the new page.
headerlevel
Type: unsigned integer, between 1 and 7 inclusive
Default: 2
Description: This is the header level for the threads the bot will archive. Anything on the page before the first header of this level will not be archived. A level 1 header is = Header =
, a default thread (level 2) header is == Header ==
, and the highest level header is a level 7: ======= Header =======
.
key
Type: string
Default: ""
Description: The value of this parameter must match an internally generated key in order for the archives to be stored anywhere other than as subpages of the page being archived.
maxarchsize
Type: unsigned integer, greater than 10000
Default: 0
Description: The target maximum size of the archive in bytes before %%i (see format) is incremented. If 0, this is disabled. In general, this parameter is used for numbered archives, but not for archives organized by date. This is not a hard limit. Resulting archive page sizes will almost always exceed this number, perhaps by a great amount. Each time ClueBot III runs on a page it archives all threads that are old enough to qualify for archiving into a single file. If you have maxarchsize=100000
with a current archive file size of 90k and it ends up that there are 60 threads to archive with a total size of 250k, then the current archive will be extended to 340k despite of the 100k limit.
maxkeepbytes
Type: unsigned integer
Default: 0
Description: If greater than 0, this is the maximum number of thread content bytes to keep on the talk page. Older threads are forcibly archived if there are more than this number of thread content bytes on the page. If 0, this option is disabled.
maxkeepthreads
Type: unsigned integer
Default: 0
Description: If greater than 0, this is the maximum number of threads to keep on the talk page. Older threads are forcibly archived if there are more than this number of threads on the page. If 0, this option is disabled.
minarchthreads
Type: unsigned integer
Default: 0
Description: The bot will not archive unless this many or more sections need archival.
minkeepthreads
Type: unsigned integer
Default: 0
Description: The bot will not archive if there will be this many or less sections left on the page.
nogenerateindex
Type: unsigned integer (boolean)
Default: 0
Description: If this is set to 1, the bot will not generate an index under User:ClueBot III/Indices/. There are very few times this option should be used. If this option is used, the index option will no longer work right.
numberstart
Type: unsigned integer
Default: 1
Description: Default value for %%i in format.
transformheader Warning! An invalid option here can screw up your archives!
Type: string, search===replace pairs delimited by &&&
Default: ""
Description: Convert archived thread headers. For each pair, search must be a valid regular expression and replace is a replacement string. See this for more information, search corresponds to $pattern, replace corresponds to $replacement, and the thread header corresponds to $subject. If you do not understand what this does, don't try to use it. Instead, ask for help from Cobi.
Cosmetic parameters
These parameters are shaping the archive box displayed on the page where archiving is active.
Archives |
No archives yet. |
This page is archived by ClueBot III. |
archivebox
Type: string ("yes" or "no")
Default: "no"
Description: Causes an archive box to be displayed similar to {{archive box}}
The example archive box is with non-default value of archivebox=yes
.
box-width
Type: string
Default: "238px"
Description: The width of the archive box. This parameter is only valid if archivebox=yes.
Archives |
No archives yet. |
This page is archived by ClueBot III. |
box-advert
Type: string ("yes" or "no")
Default: "no"
Description: Displays the string "This page is archived by ClueBot III." at the bottom of the archive box. This parameter is only valid if archivebox=yes
.
The example archive box is with non-default value of box-advert=yes
. Compare this example to the example next to the archivebox parameter.
Archives |
No archives yet. |
This page is archived by ClueBot III. |
box-separator
Type: string ("yes" or "no")
Default: "yes"
Description: Display separator lines in the archive box. This parameter is only valid if archivebox=yes
.
The example archive box is with non-default value of box-separator=no
. Compare this example to the example next to the archivebox parameter.
Archives |
No archives yet. |
This page is archived by ClueBot III. |
image
Type: string
Default: "]"
Description: If set this is an alternate image file to use as the archive icon in the archive box. This parameter is only valid if archivebox=yes
.
The example archive box is with non-default value of image=]
. Note that the image size must be specified as part of the argument to this parameter, not with the image-width parameter. Compare this example to the example next to the archivebox parameter.
image-width
Type: string
Default: "40px"
Description: The width of the image in the archive box. This parameter is only valid if archivebox=yes
and you are using the default image.
Archives |
No archives yet. |
This page is archived by ClueBot III. |
search
Type: string ("yes" or "no")
Default: "yes"
Description: Display a search field in the archive box. This parameter is only valid if archivebox=yes
.The example archive box is with non-default value of search=no
. Compare this example to the example next to the archivebox parameter.
talkcolor / talkcolour
Type: string
Default: ""
Description: This parameter is only valid if archivebox=yes
and the page on which the archive box is displayed is in the User talk namespace. If not set, or set to anything other than yes, the color scheme of the archive box on a User talk page will not be the standard talk page color scheme. In such a case, the archive box will use the same color scheme as is used for archive boxes on non-talk pages. If this parameter is set to yes and the page on which the archive box is displayed is in the User talk namespace, the archive box will use the standard talk page color scheme.
The two parameters are equivalent, and are only provided to avoid an attrition war in the MOS-style.
index
Type: string
Default: ""
Description: All values of this parameter are equivalent except yes. This parameter should not be set to yes unless you have wrapped the ClueBot III template with an {{archive box}}.
Using index=yes
results in the ClueBot III automatically generated index contained on the page User:ClueBot III/Indices/Talk:YourPage being transcluded onto Talk:YourPage in place of the {{User:ClueBot III/ArchiveThis}} template on Talk:YourPage.
This parameter is only valid if archivebox=no
. If archivebox=yes
this parameter has no effect on the index being included in the archive box and does not cause a copy of User:ClueBot III/Indices/Talk:YourPage to be transcluded onto Talk:YourPage.
like in {{archivebox|{{User:ClueBot III/ArchiveThis|index=yes}}}}
Archives |
Examples
The following examples can be cut & pasted into the top portion of the page you desire to archive. {{subst:FULLPAGENAME}} will be substituted by the name of the page you are editing when you save the page.
The text explaining the following examples assumes that {{subst:FULLPAGENAME}} evaluates to Talk:YourPage. In other words, that Talk:YourPage is the page you are archiving.
The age in all of these examples is set t 2160 hours, which is 90 days. If you want a different amount of time, then change the age argument.
Example: Archives by date (without archive box)
{{User:ClueBot III/ArchiveThis |archiveprefix={{subst:FULLPAGENAME}}/Archives/ |format=Y/F |age=2160 }}
The archive subpages produced by this example will be in the format of:
Talk:YourPage/Archives/2013/June
Talk:YourPage/Archives/2013/July
...
Example: Archives by date (with archive box)
{{User:ClueBot III/ArchiveThis |archiveprefix={{subst:FULLPAGENAME}}/Archives/ |format=Y/F |age=2160 |archivebox=yes |box-advert=yes }}
The subpages created, as needed, for your archives by this example will be named similar to:
Talk:YourPage/Archives/2013/June
Talk:YourPage/Archives/2013/July
...
Example: Numbered archives (without archive box)
{{User:ClueBot III/ArchiveThis |archiveprefix={{subst:FULLPAGENAME}}/Archive |format= %%i |age=2160 |maxarchsize=150000 |numberstart=1 }}
The subpages created, as needed, for your archives by this example will be named similar to:
Talk:YourPage/Archive 1
Talk:YourPage/Archive 2
...
Example: Numbered archives (with archive box)
{{User:ClueBot III/ArchiveThis |archiveprefix={{subst:FULLPAGENAME}}/Archive |format= %%i |age=2160 |maxarchsize=150000 |numberstart=1 |archivebox=yes |box-advert=yes }}
The subpages created, as needed, for your archives by this example will be named similar to:
Talk:YourPage/Archive 1
Talk:YourPage/Archive 2
...
Example: By year and numbered (without archive box)
{{User:ClueBot III/ArchiveThis |archiveprefix={{subst:FULLPAGENAME}}/Archives/ |format=Y %%i |age=2160 |minarchthreads=0 |minkeepthreads=0 |archivenow=<nowiki>{{User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}},{{resolved|,{{Resolved|,{{done}},{{Done}}</nowiki> |header=<nowiki>{{Talkarchive}}</nowiki> |headerlevel=2 |nogenerateindex=0 |maxkeepthreads=0 |maxkeepbytes=0 |maxarchsize=150000 |numberstart=1 |archivebox=yes |box-advert=yes }}
The subpages created, as needed, for your archives by this example will be named similar to:
Talk:YourPage/Archives/2012 1
Talk:YourPage/Archives/2012 2
...
Talk:YourPage/Archives/2013 1
Talk:YourPage/Archives/2013 2
...
Example: Changing from MiszaBot to ClueBot III
MiszaBot | ClueBot III |
---|---|
{{User:MiszaBot/config |archive = {{subst:FULLPAGENAME}}/Archive %(counter)d |algo = old(90d) |archiveheader = {{aan}} |maxarchivesize = 100K |minthreadsleft = 2 |counter = 20 }} |
{{User:ClueBot III/ArchiveThis |archiveprefix={{subst:FULLPAGENAME}}/Archive |age=2160 |header={{aan}} |maxarchsize=100000 |minkeepthreads=2 |numberstart=21 |format= %%i }} |
The subpages created, as needed, for your archives by this example will be named similar to:
Talk:YourPage/Archive 21
Talk:YourPage/Archive 22
...
The numberstart is one more than the last used by MiszaBot because the first time ClueBot III is run it may be archiving a large number of sections. Increasing this by one will prevent the current archive from being appended. In the case from which this example is taken a 90k archive page was appended by an additional 100k leaving a 190k page for which the max was supposed to be 100k. This has been reported as a bug.
Age is in hours, not days. 90 days is 2,160 hours.
If you are using an {{Archives}} template, or other template that shows which archiving bot you are using, don't forget to change:
{{Archives |auto= short |index= /Archive index |search= yes |bot= MiszaBot I |age= 90}}
to:
{{Archives |auto= short |index= /Archive index |search= yes |bot= ClueBot III |age= 90}}