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In order to edit/view this page here you will need to revert User:ClueBot III/Indices/User:ClueBot III/Documentationto 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 set archivebox=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.
