User:JBchrch/Easy-to-use copy-and-paste archival bots

This help page is a how-to guide.

It details processes or procedures of Help:Archiving a talk page. It is not one of Wikipedia's policies or guidelines, and may reflect varying levels of consensus and vetting.

This page provides easy-to-use bot configurations that editors can copy and paste onto talk pages in order to set up automated archival without the need to understand the different archival bots and the details of their configurations. Please note that you take full responsibility of any action you perform using the codes below.

The configurations proposed in this page use Lowercase sigmabot III. They archive each thread once the last reply is 30 days old. They will not archive any thread if it leads to the talk page having fewer than four active threads, even if the last reply to the oldest thread is older than 30 days. They add an archive navigator on the active talk page: {{Talk header}} for article talk pages and {{Archives}} for User talk: and Wikipedia talk: pages.

Article talk pages[edit]

Place the following wikicode below the talk page header ({{Talk header}} and Wikiprojects templates).

If the talk page has not been created yet, you need to create it and then place a {{Talk header}} at the top of the page before copying and pasting the code below.

{{User:MiszaBot/config
| algo                = old(30d)
| archive             = {{SUBST:FULLPAGENAME}}/Archive %(counter)d
| counter             = 1
| maxarchivesize      = 150K
| archiveheader       = {{Automatic archive navigator}}
| minthreadstoarchive = 1
| minthreadsleft      = 4
}}

User talk pages[edit]

Place the following wikicode at the top of the user talk page.

{{Archives}}
{{User:MiszaBot/config
| algo                = old(30d)
| archive             = {{SUBST:FULLPAGENAME}}/Archive %(counter)d
| counter             = 1
| maxarchivesize      = 150K
| archiveheader       = {{Automatic archive navigator}}
| minthreadstoarchive = 1
| minthreadsleft      = 4
}}

Wikipedia talk pages[edit]

If you had to come to this page in order to understand how to configure an archival bot, please consider that you might not have enough experience to tinker with the wikicode of project namespace discussion pages. Still, the following wikicode is appropriate to set up an automatic archival on project space talk pages.

{{Archives}}
{{User:MiszaBot/config
| algo                = old(30d)
| archive             = {{SUBST:FULLPAGENAME}}/Archive %(counter)d
| counter             = 1
| maxarchivesize      = 150K
| archiveheader       = {{Automatic archive navigator}}
| minthreadstoarchive = 1
| minthreadsleft      = 4
}}