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href="#Cut_and_paste_procedure"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.1</span> <span>Cut and paste procedure</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Cut_and_paste_procedure-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Semi-automated_cut_and_paste_procedure" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Semi-automated_cut_and_paste_procedure"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.2</span> <span>Semi-automated cut and paste procedure</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Semi-automated_cut_and_paste_procedure-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Automated_archiving" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Automated_archiving"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Automated archiving</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Automated_archiving-sublist" 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class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Example_with_archives_by_year_and_month" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Example_with_archives_by_year_and_month"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.3</span> <span>Example with archives by year and month</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Example_with_archives_by_year_and_month-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Bot_and_config_details" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Bot_and_config_details"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.4</span> <span>Bot and config details</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Bot_and_config_details-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Category:Pages_where_archive_parameter_is_not_a_subpage" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Category:Pages_where_archive_parameter_is_not_a_subpage"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.5</span> <span>Category:Pages where archive parameter is not a subpage</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Category:Pages_where_archive_parameter_is_not_a_subpage-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Templates" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Templates"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Templates</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Templates-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Templates subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Templates-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-For_archive_pages" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#For_archive_pages"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1</span> <span>For archive pages</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-For_archive_pages-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-For_talk_pages" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#For_talk_pages"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.2</span> <span>For talk pages</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-For_talk_pages-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Archive_link_boxes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Archive_link_boxes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.2.1</span> <span>Archive link boxes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Archive_link_boxes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Automatic_archive_boxes_for_year/month_archives" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Automatic_archive_boxes_for_year/month_archives"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.2.2</span> <span>Automatic archive boxes for year/month archives</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Automatic_archive_boxes_for_year/month_archives-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Archive_link_banner" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Archive_link_banner"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.2.3</span> <span>Archive link banner</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Archive_link_banner-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Archive_indexing" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Archive_indexing"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Archive indexing</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Archive_indexing-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Archive_searching" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Archive_searching"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>Archive searching</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Archive_searching-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Continuing_discussions" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Continuing_discussions"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>Continuing discussions</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Continuing_discussions-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Example_pages" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Example_pages"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>Example pages</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Example_pages-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Toggle 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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-as mw-list-item"><a href="https://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC:%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%9A%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BE_%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%83%E0%A6%B7%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A0%E0%A6%BE_%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%82%E0%A7%B0%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B7%E0%A6%A3" title="সহায়:আলোচনা পৃষ্ঠা সংৰক্ষণ – Assamese" lang="as" hreflang="as" data-title="সহায়:আলোচনা পৃষ্ঠা সংৰক্ষণ" data-language-autonym="অসমীয়া" data-language-local-name="Assamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>অসমীয়া</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6m%C9%99k:Arxiv_s%C9%99hif%C9%99si_yaratmaq" title="Kömək:Arxiv səhifəsi yaratmaq – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Kömək:Arxiv səhifəsi yaratmaq" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A4%D9%85%DA%A9:%D8%A2%D8%B1%D8%B4%DB%8C%D9%88_%D8%B5%D9%81%D8%AD%D9%87%E2%80%8C%D8%B3%DB%8C_%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%82" title="کؤمک:آرشیو صفحه‌سی یاراتماق – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="کؤمک:آرشیو صفحه‌سی یاراتماق" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BA%D1%96%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%8B%D1%8F:%D0%90%D1%80%D1%85%D1%96%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%86%D1%8B%D1%8F" title="Вікіпедыя:Архівацыя – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Вікіпедыя:Архівацыя" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F:%D0%90%D1%80%D1%85%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B5_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BA%D1%83%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B8_%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B8" title="Уикипедия:Архивиране на дискусионни страници – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Уикипедия:Архивиране на дискусионни страници" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajuda:Arxiu_de_discussions" title="Ajuda:Arxiu de discussions – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Ajuda:Arxiu de discussions" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicipedia:Archifo_tudalen_sgwrs" title="Wicipedia:Archifo tudalen sgwrs – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Wicipedia:Archifo tudalen sgwrs" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hj%C3%A6lp:Arkivering" title="Hjælp:Arkivering – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Hjælp:Arkivering" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilfe:Archivieren" title="Hilfe:Archivieren – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Hilfe:Archivieren" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikipeedia:Arutelulehek%C3%BClje_arhiveerimine" title="Vikipeedia:Arutelulehekülje arhiveerimine – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Vikipeedia:Arutelulehekülje arhiveerimine" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayuda:C%C3%B3mo_archivar_una_p%C3%A1gina_de_discusi%C3%B3n" title="Ayuda:Cómo archivar una página de discusión – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Ayuda:Cómo archivar una página de discusión" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helpo:Arkivi" title="Helpo:Arkivi – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Helpo:Arkivi" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%87%D9%86%D9%85%D8%A7:%D8%A8%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C_%D8%B5%D9%81%D8%AD%D9%87_%D8%A8%D8%AD%D8%AB" title="راهنما:بایگانی صفحه بحث – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="راهنما:بایگانی صفحه بحث" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aide:Archivage" title="Aide:Archivage – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Aide:Archivage" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8F%84%EC%9B%80%EB%A7%90:%EC%A7%80%EB%82%9C_%ED%86%A0%EB%A1%A0_%EB%B3%B4%EC%A1%B4%ED%95%98%EA%B8%B0" title="도움말:지난 토론 보존하기 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="도움말:지난 토론 보존하기" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hsb mw-list-item"><a href="https://hsb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomoc:Archiwowanje" title="Pomoc:Archiwowanje – Upper Sorbian" lang="hsb" hreflang="hsb" data-title="Pomoc:Archiwowanje" data-language-autonym="Hornjoserbsce" data-language-local-name="Upper Sorbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hornjoserbsce</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedija:Kako_arhivirati_stranicu_za_razgovor" title="Wikipedija:Kako arhivirati stranicu za razgovor – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Wikipedija:Kako arhivirati stranicu za razgovor" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantuan:Mengarsipkan_halaman_pembicaraan" title="Bantuan:Mengarsipkan halaman pembicaraan – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Bantuan:Mengarsipkan halaman pembicaraan" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hj%C3%A1lp:Skjalas%C3%B6fn" title="Hjálp:Skjalasöfn – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Hjálp:Skjalasöfn" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it badge-Q70894304 mw-list-item" title=""><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aiuto:Archiviazione" title="Aiuto:Archiviazione – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Aiuto:Archiviazione" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%93%E1%83%90%E1%83%AE%E1%83%9B%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%94%E1%83%91%E1%83%90:%E1%83%92%E1%83%90%E1%83%9C%E1%83%AE%E1%83%98%E1%83%9A%E1%83%95%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1_%E1%83%92%E1%83%95%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%93%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1_%E1%83%93%E1%83%90%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%A5%E1%83%98%E1%83%95%E1%83%94%E1%83%91%E1%83%90" title="დახმარება:განხილვის გვერდის დაარქივება – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="დახმარება:განხილვის გვერდის დაარქივება" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ks mw-list-item"><a href="https://ks.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8E%D8%AF%D9%8E%D8%AA%DA%BE:%D9%85%D9%8E%D8%AD%D9%81%D9%88%D9%97%D8%B8_%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%81%D9%95" title="مَدَتھ:مَحفوٗظ خانہٕ – Kashmiri" lang="ks" hreflang="ks" data-title="مَدَتھ:مَحفوٗظ خانہٕ" data-language-autonym="कॉशुर / کٲشُر" data-language-local-name="Kashmiri" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>कॉशुर / کٲشُر</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%BA%8A%E0%BB%88%E0%BA%A7%E0%BA%8D%E0%BB%80%E0%BA%AB%E0%BA%BC%E0%BA%B7%E0%BA%AD:%E0%BA%AB%E0%BB%89%E0%BA%AD%E0%BA%87%E0%BA%AA%E0%BA%B2%E0%BA%87" title="ຊ່ວຍເຫຼືອ:ຫ້ອງສາງ – Lao" lang="lo" hreflang="lo" data-title="ຊ່ວຍເຫຼືອ:ຫ້ອງສາງ" data-language-autonym="ລາວ" data-language-local-name="Lao" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ລາວ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxilium:De_veteribus_disputationibus_ad_tabularium_movendis" title="Auxilium:De veteribus disputationibus ad tabularium movendis – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Auxilium:De veteribus disputationibus ad tabularium movendis" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Archiv%C3%A1l%C3%A1s" title="Wikipédia:Archiválás – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Wikipédia:Archiválás" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%88:%D0%90%D1%80%D1%85%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%9A%D0%B5_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B0" title="Помош:Архивирање на разговорна страница – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Помош:Архивирање на разговорна страница" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7:%D8%A7%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%89_%D8%AA%D8%A3%D8%B1%D8%B4%D9%81_%D8%B5%D9%81%D8%AD%D9%87" title="ويكيبيديا:ازاى تأرشف صفحه – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="ويكيبيديا:ازاى تأرشف صفحه" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bagaimana_mengarkibkan_halaman_perbualan" title="Wikipedia:Bagaimana mengarkibkan halaman perbualan – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Wikipedia:Bagaimana mengarkibkan halaman perbualan" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archiveren" title="Wikipedia:Archiveren – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Wikipedia:Archiveren" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:%E9%81%8E%E5%8E%BB%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B0" title="Help:過去ログ – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="Help:過去ログ" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hjelp:Arkivering" title="Hjelp:Arkivering – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Hjelp:Arkivering" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-or mw-list-item"><a href="https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%B8%E0%AC%B9%E0%AC%AF%E0%AD%8B%E0%AC%97:%E0%AC%86%E0%AC%B2%E0%AD%8B%E0%AC%9A%E0%AC%A8%E0%AC%BE_%E0%AC%AA%E0%AD%83%E0%AC%B7%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%A0%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0_%E0%AC%85%E0%AC%AD%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%B2%E0%AD%87%E0%AC%96_%E0%AC%A4%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%86%E0%AC%B0%E0%AC%BF" title="ସହଯୋଗ:ଆଲୋଚନା ପୃଷ୍ଠାର ଅଭିଲେଖ ତିଆରି – Odia" lang="or" hreflang="or" data-title="ସହଯୋଗ:ଆଲୋଚନା ପୃଷ୍ଠାର ଅଭିଲେଖ ତିଆରି" data-language-autonym="ଓଡ଼ିଆ" data-language-local-name="Odia" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ଓଡ଼ିଆ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-km mw-list-item"><a href="https://km.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%9E%87%E1%9F%86%E1%9E%93%E1%9E%BD%E1%9E%99:Archiving_a_talk_page" title="ជំនួយ:Archiving a talk page – Khmer" lang="km" hreflang="km" data-title="ជំនួយ:Archiving a talk page" data-language-autonym="ភាសាខ្មែរ" data-language-local-name="Khmer" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ភាសាខ្មែរ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajuda:Guia_de_edi%C3%A7%C3%A3o/Arquivar_uma_p%C3%A1gina_de_discuss%C3%A3o" title="Ajuda:Guia de edição/Arquivar uma página de discussão – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Ajuda:Guia de edição/Arquivar uma página de discussão" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-rmy mw-list-item"><a href="https://rmy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhutipen:Sar_kerenpe_arxivurya" title="Zhutipen:Sar kerenpe arxivurya – Vlax Romani" lang="rmy" hreflang="rmy" data-title="Zhutipen:Sar kerenpe arxivurya" data-language-autonym="Romani čhib" data-language-local-name="Vlax Romani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Romani čhib</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F:%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BA_%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%85%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8C_%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%86%D1%8B_%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%81%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F" title="Википедия:Как архивировать страницы обсуждения – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Википедия:Как архивировать страницы обсуждения" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-si mw-list-item"><a href="https://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B6%8B%E0%B6%AF%E0%B7%80%E0%B7%94:Archiving_a_talk_page" title="උදවු:Archiving a talk page – Sinhala" lang="si" hreflang="si" data-title="උදවු:Archiving a talk page" data-language-autonym="සිංහල" data-language-local-name="Sinhala" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>සිංහල</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Archiving_a_talk_page" title="Help:Archiving a talk page – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Help:Archiving a talk page" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sd mw-list-item"><a href="https://sd.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%AF%D8%AF:%D8%A8%D8%AD%D8%AB_%D8%B5%D9%81%D8%AD%D9%88_%D8%A2%D8%B1%DA%AA%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D9%88_%DA%AA%D8%B1%DA%BB" title="مدد:بحث صفحو آرڪائيو ڪرڻ – Sindhi" lang="sd" hreflang="sd" data-title="مدد:بحث صفحو آرڪائيو ڪرڻ" data-language-autonym="سنڌي" data-language-local-name="Sindhi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>سنڌي</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%85%DB%95%D8%AA%DB%8C:%D8%A6%DB%95%D8%B1%D8%B4%DB%8C%DA%A4%DA%A9%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%86%DB%8C_%D9%BE%DB%95%DA%95%DB%95%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%86" title="یارمەتی:ئەرشیڤکردنی پەڕەکان – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" hreflang="ckb" data-title="یارمەتی:ئەرشیڤکردنی پەڕەکان" data-language-autonym="کوردی" data-language-local-name="Central Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>کوردی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%9B:%D0%90%D1%80%D1%85%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%9A%D0%B5_%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B5_%D0%B7%D0%B0_%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%80" title="Помоћ:Архивирање странице за разговор – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Помоћ:Архивирање странице за разговор" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedija:Kako_arhivirati_stranicu_za_razgovor" title="Wikipedija:Kako arhivirati stranicu za razgovor – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Wikipedija:Kako arhivirati stranicu za razgovor" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arkivering" title="Wikipedia:Arkivering – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Wikipedia:Arkivering" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%89%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BF:%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%87%E0%AE%9A%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%9A%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%A3%E0%AF%88%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%88%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%B3%E0%AF%88_%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%A3%E0%AF%87%E0%AE%B1%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%B1%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%8D" title="உதவி:பேச்சுப் பக்கத்தின் துணைத் தலைப்புகளை பரணேற்றுதல் – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="உதவி:பேச்சுப் பக்கத்தின் துணைத் தலைப்புகளை பரணேற்றுதல்" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>தமிழ்</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%98%E0%B8%B5%E0%B9%83%E0%B8%8A%E0%B9%89:%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B8" title="วิธีใช้:กรุ – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="วิธีใช้:กรุ" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ไทย</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tg mw-list-item"><a href="https://tg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%B0:%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%B9%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B8_%D1%81%D0%B0%D1%84%D2%B3%D0%B0%D2%B3%D0%BE" title="Википедиа:Бойгонии сафҳаҳо – Tajik" lang="tg" hreflang="tg" data-title="Википедиа:Бойгонии сафҳаҳо" data-language-autonym="Тоҷикӣ" data-language-local-name="Tajik" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Тоҷикӣ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikipedi:Tart%C4%B1%C5%9Fma_sayfas%C4%B1n%C4%B1_ar%C5%9Fivlemek" title="Vikipedi:Tartışma sayfasını arşivlemek – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Vikipedi:Tartışma sayfasını arşivlemek" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%96%D0%B4%D0%BA%D0%B0:%D0%90%D1%80%D1%85%D1%96%D0%B2%D1%83%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8F_%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8F" title="Довідка:Архівування сторінки обговорення – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Довідка:Архівування сторінки обговорення" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Українська</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tr%E1%BB%A3_gi%C3%BAp:L%C6%B0u_trang_th%E1%BA%A3o_lu%E1%BA%ADn" title="Trợ giúp:Lưu trang thảo luận – Vietnamese" lang="vi" hreflang="vi" data-title="Trợ giúp:Lưu trang thảo luận" data-language-autonym="Tiếng Việt" data-language-local-name="Vietnamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tiếng Việt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-yue mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:%E5%B9%AB%E8%A8%8E%E8%AB%96%E7%89%88%E6%AD%B8%E6%AA%94" title="Help:幫討論版歸檔 – Cantonese" lang="yue" hreflang="yue" data-title="Help:幫討論版歸檔" data-language-autonym="粵語" data-language-local-name="Cantonese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>粵語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh mw-list-item"><a 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It is not one of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines" title="Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines">Wikipedia's policies or guidelines</a>, and may reflect varying levels of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Consensus" title="Wikipedia:Consensus">consensus</a>.</div></div></td><td class="mbox-imageright"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1252059228">.mw-parser-output .module-shortcutboxplain{float:right;margin:0 0 0 1em;border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);background-color:var(--background-color-base,#fff);padding:0.3em 0.6em 0.2em 0.6em;text-align:center;font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .module-shortcutboxleft{float:left;margin:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .module-shortcutlist{display:inline-block;border-bottom:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);margin-bottom:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .module-shortcutboxplain ul{font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .module-shortcutanchordiv{position:relative;top:-3em}.mw-parser-output li .module-shortcutanchordiv{float:right}.mw-parser-output .mbox-imageright .module-shortcutboxplain{padding:0.4em 1em 0.4em 1em;line-height:1.3;margin:0}</style><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="H:ARC"></span><span id="WP:ARCHIVE"></span><span id="WP:AATP"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=H:ARC&redirect=no">H:ARC</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:ARCHIVE&redirect=no">WP:ARCHIVE</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:AATP&redirect=no">WP:AATP</a></span></li></ul></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238436933"><table class="plainlinks ombox ombox-notice nutshell" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Walnut.png/30px-Walnut.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Walnut.png/45px-Walnut.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Walnut.png/60px-Walnut.png 2x" data-file-width="192" data-file-height="192"/></span></span></td><td class="mbox-text"><b>This page in a nutshell:</b> This page explains how and why to set up archiving and archive search boxes on Wikipedia, offering multiple options and assessments of those options.</td></tr></tbody></table> <p>It is customary to periodically <b>archive old discussions on a talk page</b> when the talk page becomes too large. Archiving is often done automatically by a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots" title="Wikipedia:Bots">bot</a>. Step-by-step instructions to set up automated archiving can be found at <b><a href="/wiki/Help:Archiving_(plain_and_simple)" title="Help:Archiving (plain and simple)">Help:Archiving (plain and simple)</a></b>. There are two main bots that archive talk pages: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/User:ClueBot_III" title="User:ClueBot III">User:ClueBot III</a> will create archives based on the parameters set using <a href="/wiki/User:ClueBot_III/ArchiveThis" title="User:ClueBot III/ArchiveThis">User:ClueBot III/ArchiveThis</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:Lowercase_sigmabot_III/Archive_HowTo" title="User:Lowercase sigmabot III/Archive HowTo">User:Lowercase sigmabot III</a> will create archives based on the parameters set using <a href="/wiki/User:MiszaBot/config" title="User:MiszaBot/config">User:MiszaBot/config</a>.</li></ul> <p>Archives can also be created manually. Manual archiving can be done <a href="/wiki/Help:Archiving_a_talk_page/Manual_archiving" class="mw-redirect" title="Help:Archiving a talk page/Manual archiving">by hand</a> by cutting and pasting from a talk page to an archive subpage. <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:One_click_archiving" title="Wikipedia:One click archiving">One click archiving</a> streamlines this process by adding an archive button to all talk page sections. </p><p>Only noticeboards and talk pages are archived because both can become very long. The <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Talk_page_guidelines#When_to_archive_pages" title="Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines">talk page guidelines</a> suggest archiving when the talk page exceeds 75 KB (or 75,000 bytes) or has multiple resolved or stale discussions. Older discussions that are still relevant can be summarized and linked using the <code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:FAQ" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:FAQ">FAQ</a>}}</code> template. Archiving one's own user talk page is preferred but optional; some users simply <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:BLANKING" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:BLANKING">blank the page</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc"/> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Technical_overview" data-mw-thread-id="h-Technical_overview"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Technical_overview"></span>Technical overview<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Technical_overview"></span></h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main page: <a href="/wiki/Help:Archiving_a_talk_page/Naming" class="mw-redirect" title="Help:Archiving a talk page/Naming">Help:Archiving a talk page/Naming</a></div> <p>There are several standard ways to archive a talk page. Each consists of <a href="/wiki/Cut_and_paste" class="mw-redirect" title="Cut and paste">cutting and pasting</a> sections from a talk page to an "Archive" <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Subpages" title="Wikipedia:Subpages">subpage</a>. The sections can archived <a href="#Manual_archiving">manually</a> or <a href="#Automated_archiving">automatically</a>. Manual archiving is done by editing the page by hand or using a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:One_click_archiving" title="Wikipedia:One click archiving">one click archiving</a> script that adds an archive button to talk page sections. Automatic archiving is done by a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots" title="Wikipedia:Bots">bot</a>. There are two widely archiving bots, <a href="/wiki/User:ClueBot_III" title="User:ClueBot III">User:ClueBot III</a> and <a href="/wiki/User:Lowercase_sigmabot_III" title="User:Lowercase sigmabot III">User:Lowercase sigmabot III</a>. </p><p>The most common method of <a href="/wiki/Help:Archiving_a_talk_page/Naming" class="mw-redirect" title="Help:Archiving a talk page/Naming">naming talk page archives</a> is with sequentially numbered archives. For example: </p> <ul><li>The 20th archive of <a href="/wiki/Talk:Earth" title="Talk:Earth">Talk:Earth</a> would be named <code>Talk:Earth/Archive 20</code></li> <li>The first archive of <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">User talk:Example</a> would be named <code>User talk:Example/Archive 1</code></li></ul> <p>Remember to use the correct namespace – the part before the colon (<code>:</code>) – when archiving your own user talk page. It should start with "<code>User talk:</code>", not "<code>Talk:</code>". </p><p>Alternatively, archives are often named chronologically. Archive templates will not automatically detect subpages with unusual names. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Are_there_any_existing_archived_talk_pages?" data-mw-thread-id="h-Are_there_any_existing_archived_talk_pages?"><span id="Are_there_any_existing_archived_talk_pages.3F"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Are_there_any_existing_archived_talk_pages?"></span>Are there any existing archived talk pages?<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Are_there_any_existing_archived_talk_pages?"></span></h2></div> <p>Most of the methods here rely on checking if any archived talk pages already exist, and placing the new sections to be archived either into the most recent archive, or in a new archive numerically sequenced one above the existing archive. There is a search to check if any subpages exist under a talk page (and archived pages are usually placed in subpages of the existing talk page). In the search bar type: </p> <dl><dd><code>Special:PrefixIndex/<i>Talk:Pagename</i></code></dd></dl> <p>For example </p> <dl><dd><code><a href="/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/Help_talk:Archiving_a_talk_page" title="Special:PrefixIndex/Help talk:Archiving a talk page">Special:PrefixIndex/Help talk:Archiving a talk page</a></code> will display the talk page to this help page and all its archives.</dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Manual_archiving" data-mw-thread-id="h-Manual_archiving"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Manual_archiving"></span>Manual archiving<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Manual_archiving"></span></h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cut_and_paste_procedure" data-mw-thread-id="h-Cut_and_paste_procedure-Manual_archiving"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Cut_and_paste_procedure-Manual_archiving"></span>Cut and paste procedure<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Cut_and_paste_procedure-Manual_archiving"></span></h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main page: <a href="/wiki/Help:Archiving_a_talk_page/Manual_archiving" class="mw-redirect" title="Help:Archiving a talk page/Manual archiving">Help:Archiving a talk page/Manual archiving</a></div> <p>The most basic way to <a href="/wiki/Help:Archiving_a_talk_page/Manual_archiving" class="mw-redirect" title="Help:Archiving a talk page/Manual archiving">manually archive</a> a page is to <a href="/wiki/Cut_and_paste" class="mw-redirect" title="Cut and paste">cut the material</a> from the talk page and <a href="/wiki/Cut_and_paste" class="mw-redirect" title="Cut and paste">paste it</a> into an archive. If no archive exists, you will need to create a new subpage. Create the archive subpage at <code>Talk:Example page/Archive N</code> where "N" is either "1", the next positive <a href="/wiki/Integer" title="Integer">integer</a>, or an appropriate name for a topic-specific archive (for example <code>Talk:Example page/Place of birth debate</code>). When an archive subpage becomes too large, new archives can be created as needed. </p><p>When manually creating an archive, add <code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Archive" title="Template:Archive">Archive</a>}}</code> to the top of each archive page. If an archive box doesn't already exist on the main talk page, add the line <code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Archives" title="Template:Archives">Archives</a>}}</code> below the WikiProject tags. For the full list of archiving templates, see <a href="/wiki/Category:Archival_templates" title="Category:Archival templates">Category:Archival templates</a>. For step-by-step instructions, see <a href="/wiki/Help:Archiving_a_talk_page/Manual_archiving" class="mw-redirect" title="Help:Archiving a talk page/Manual archiving">/Manual archiving</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Semi-automated_cut_and_paste_procedure" data-mw-thread-id="h-Semi-automated_cut_and_paste_procedure-Manual_archiving"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Semi-automated_cut_and_paste_procedure-Manual_archiving"></span>Semi-automated cut and paste procedure<span class="anchor" id="Semi-automated_cut_and_past_procedure"></span><span data-mw-comment-end="h-Semi-automated_cut_and_paste_procedure-Manual_archiving"></span></h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main page: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:One_click_archiving" title="Wikipedia:One click archiving">Wikipedia:One click archiving</a></div> <p>One click archiving allows you to archive any section of a talk page by clicking a button next to the section. To use this method, you'll need to install a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:User_scripts" title="Wikipedia:User scripts">user script</a>. After installing one of the scripts listed below, you will see links next to talk page headers allowing you to archive a section immediately: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/User:Elli/OneClickArchiver" title="User:Elli/OneClickArchiver">User:Elli/OneClickArchiver</a> – archives one section at a time</li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:FlightTime/OneClickArchiver.js" title="User:FlightTime/OneClickArchiver.js">User:FlightTime/OneClickArchiver.js</a> - archives one section at a time</li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:Andrybak/Archiver" class="mw-redirect" title="User:Andrybak/Archiver">User:andrybak/Archiver</a> – archives multiple sections at once</li></ul> <p><span class="anchor" id="Other_manual_procedures"></span> <a href="/wiki/Help:Archiving_a_talk_page/Other_procedures" class="mw-redirect" title="Help:Archiving a talk page/Other procedures">Other manual procedures</a>—like <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Moving_a_page" title="Wikipedia:Moving a page">moving</a> talk pages to archive subpages—are discouraged. See the discussion at <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:How_to_archive_a_talk_page/Archive_1#Archive_standards" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia talk:How to archive a talk page/Archive 1">Wikipedia talk:How to archive a talk page/Archive 1#Archive standards</a> for rationale. <span class="anchor" id="Automated_archival"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Automated_archiving" data-mw-thread-id="h-Automated_archiving"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Automated_archiving"></span>Automated archiving<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Automated_archiving"></span></h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For plain and simple automated archiving, see <a href="/wiki/Help:Archiving_(plain_and_simple)" title="Help:Archiving (plain and simple)">Help:Archiving (plain and simple)</a>.</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:AUTOARCHIVE"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:AUTOARCHIVE&redirect=no">WP:AUTOARCHIVE</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><a href="/wiki/User:ClueBot_III" title="User:ClueBot III">ClueBot III</a> and <a href="/wiki/User:Lowercase_sigmabot_III" title="User:Lowercase sigmabot III">lowercase sigmabot III</a> can automatically create archives for any discussion page (one that has "talk" in the namespace), by moving sections to a subpage when the section has received no comments for a specified period of time. Both bots can archive sections into simple sequentially numbered archives (e.g. <code>YourPage/Archive 1</code>, <code>YourPage/Archive 2</code>, ...), or archive according to date (e.g. <code>YourPage/Archives/2013/June</code>, <code>YourPage/Archives/2013/July</code>, ...). </p><p>See the <b><a href="/wiki/User:ClueBot_III" title="User:ClueBot III">ClueBot III page</a></b> and the <b><a href="/wiki/User:Lowercase_sigmabot_III/Archive_HowTo" title="User:Lowercase sigmabot III/Archive HowTo">lowercase sigmabot III page</a></b> for detailed instructions on setting up these bots. Those pages explain each of the parameters used, such as <code>archiveheader</code>, <code>minthreadsleft</code>, etc. The examples below are also available for use. All of the examples here are intended for you to be able to copy them while viewing this page and paste them into the edit box on your target page without <i>requiring</i> any modification to have a working configuration. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Choosing_a_bot" data-mw-thread-id="h-Choosing_a_bot-Automated_archiving"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Choosing_a_bot-Automated_archiving"></span>Choosing a bot<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Choosing_a_bot-Automated_archiving"></span></h3></div> <p><a href="/wiki/User:ClueBot_III" title="User:ClueBot III">ClueBot III</a> and <a href="/wiki/User:Lowercase_sigmabot_III" title="User:Lowercase sigmabot III">lowercase sigmabot III</a>, the two bots in current use for automated archiving, are similar in their behaviour, but have some differences in terms of features they implement and limitations on their use: </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th> </th> <th>lowercase sigmabot III </th> <th>ClueBot III </th></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left;">Number of talk pages in use on </th> <td><a class="external text" href="https://templatecount.toolforge.org/index.php?lang=en&namespace=2&name=MiszaBot%2Fconfig">~37,000</a> </td> <td><a class="external text" href="https://templatecount.toolforge.org/index.php?lang=en&namespace=2&name=ClueBot+III%2FArchiveThis">~10,600</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left;">Index of archives? </th> <td style="background: #FF8; color:black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-maybe"><a href="#Archive_indexing">requires additional bot</a> </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes"><a href="/wiki/User:ClueBot_III/Documentation#Index_generation" title="User:ClueBot III/Documentation">Yes</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left;">Automatically repair links to discussions when archiving? </th> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes"><a href="/wiki/User:ClueBot_III#Keeping_linked" title="User:ClueBot III">Yes</a> (<a href="/wiki/Special:Diff/918449395" title="Special:Diff/918449395">example</a>) </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left;">Initial delay before first archive </th> <td>Less than 24 hours (typically begins runs at <a href="/wiki/UTC%2B00:00" title="UTC+00:00">00:00 UTC</a> daily) </td> <td>Up to several days (<span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Creation_Museum&action=history&dir=prev&limit=2&offset=201312090940">example</a></span>) </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left;">Limitations </th> <td><a href="/wiki/User:Lowercase_sigmabot_III/Archive_HowTo#Missing_signatures" title="User:Lowercase sigmabot III/Archive HowTo">Will not archive sections without signatures</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/User:ClueBot_III/Documentation#Keeping_linked" title="User:ClueBot III/Documentation">Not suitable for pages linked to by a number of pages in the order of thousands</a> (for performance reasons) </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The following are example configurations to set up automatic archiving of an article talk page or user talk page. These configuration templates do not produce any visible output, so you should generally also include <a href="#For_talk_pages">a template</a> such as <code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Archives" title="Template:Archives">Archives</a>}}</code> to provide readers with links to search and navigate the archives. These templates may also be configured with the parameters <code>bot</code> and <code>age</code> to include a message notifying readers that automatic archiving is taking place. For example: <span class="nowrap"><code>{{Archives|age=90|bot=<a href="/wiki/User:ClueBot_III#How_to_archive_your_page" title="User:ClueBot III">ClueBot III</a>}}</code></span>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Example_with_sequentially_numbered_archives" data-mw-thread-id="h-Example_with_sequentially_numbered_archives-Automated_archiving"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Example_with_sequentially_numbered_archives-Automated_archiving"></span>Example with sequentially numbered archives<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Example_with_sequentially_numbered_archives-Automated_archiving"></span></h3></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2">Sequentially numbered archives </th></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/User:Lowercase_sigmabot_III/Archive_HowTo" title="User:Lowercase sigmabot III/Archive HowTo">Lowercase sigmabot III</a></th> <th><a href="/wiki/User:ClueBot_III#How_to_archive_your_page" title="User:ClueBot III">ClueBot III</a> </th></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"> <td><div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-wikitext mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="p">{{</span><span class="nn">User</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="nt">MiszaBot/config</span> <span class="p">|</span><span class="nl"> algo</span><span class="o">=</span>old(90d) <span class="p">|</span><span class="nl"> archive</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="p">{{</span><span class="nn">SUBST</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="nt">#titleparts:</span><span class="p">{{</span><span class="nn">SUBST</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="nt">FULLPAGENAME</span><span class="p">}}}}</span>/Archive %(counter)d <span class="p">|</span><span class="nl"> counter</span><span class="o">=</span>1 <span class="p">|</span><span class="nl"> maxarchivesize</span><span class="o">=</span>75K <span class="p">|</span><span class="nl"> archiveheader</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="p">{{</span><span class="nt">Archive</span><span class="p">}}</span> <span class="p">|</span><span class="nl"> minthreadsleft</span><span class="o">=</span>5 <span class="p">|</span><span class="nl"> minthreadstoarchive</span><span class="o">=</span>2 <span class="p">}}</span> </pre></div> </td> <td><div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-wikitext mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="p">{{</span><span class="nn">User</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="nt">ClueBot III/ArchiveThis</span> <span class="p">|</span><span class="nl"> age</span><span class="o">=</span>2160 <span class="p">|</span><span class="nl"> archiveprefix</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="p">{{</span><span class="nn">SUBST</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="nt">#titleparts:</span><span class="p">{{</span><span class="nn">SUBST</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="nt">FULLPAGENAME</span><span class="p">}}}}</span>/Archive <span class="p">|</span><span class="nl"> numberstart</span><span class="o">=</span>1 <span class="p">|</span><span class="nl"> maxarchsize</span><span class="o">=</span>75000 <span class="p">|</span><span class="nl"> header</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="p">{{</span><span class="nt">Archive</span><span class="p">}}</span> <span class="p">|</span><span class="nl"> minkeepthreads</span><span class="o">=</span>5 <span class="p">|</span><span class="nl"> minarchthreads</span><span class="o">=</span>2 <span class="p">|</span><span class="nl"> format</span><span class="o">=</span> %%i <span class="p">}}</span> </pre></div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Both of the above examples will create archive pages, as needed, starting with <code><i>TalkPage</i>/Archive 1</code> and continuing with <code><i>TalkPage</i>/Archive 2</code>, etc., when the current archive page grows to more than 75,000 bytes. Only sections with dates that are older than 90 days (2,160 hours) will be archived, although the five sections with the most recent contributions will be retained on the talk page no matter how long ago the last contribution was added. If archives for the page already exist, then set the counter/numberstart parameter to the next archive number in the series. </p><p><span class="anchor" id="FULLPAGENAME"></span>Warning: the magic word <b>{{SUBST:FULLPAGENAME}}</b> is replaced by the talk page name when the template is saved to a talk page. However some punctuation characters that can appear in a page name (<code>"&'</code>) are replaced by HTML character codes that are not recognised by the bots (see <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:PAGENAMEE_encoding#PAGENAME" class="extiw" title="mediawikiwiki:Manual:PAGENAMEE encoding">mediawikiwiki:Manual:PAGENAMEE encoding#PAGENAME</a> for details about these and other characters). For example <code>'</code> is replaced with <code>&#39;</code> (so if the bot is to work then <code>&#39;</code> must be replaced with <code>'</code>). This can be circumvented by using <code>{{SUBST:#titleparts:{{SUBST:FULLPAGENAME}}}}</code> to automatically sort the encoding. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Example_with_archives_by_year_and_month" data-mw-thread-id="h-Example_with_archives_by_year_and_month-Automated_archiving"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Example_with_archives_by_year_and_month-Automated_archiving"></span>Example with archives by year and month<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Example_with_archives_by_year_and_month-Automated_archiving"></span></h3></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2">Archives by year/month </th></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/User:Lowercase_sigmabot_III/Archive_HowTo" title="User:Lowercase sigmabot III/Archive HowTo">lowercase sigmabot III</a></th> <th><a href="/wiki/User:ClueBot_III#How_to_archive_your_page" title="User:ClueBot III">ClueBot III</a> </th></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"> <td> <p>Note: In this configuration lowercase sigmabot III puts threads into archives based on the last date in each thread. Here is an example of it splitting an archiving task of 185 threads into <span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=lowercase+sigmabot+III&dir=prev&limit=57&offset=201312042104">54 YYYY/Month based archives</a></span>. </p> </td> <td> <p>Note: Each time ClueBot III runs it places threads in a <i>single</i> archive which is the YYYY/Month of (NOW - age). If you are starting archiving with a backlog this will result in a <i>single file</i> with all of your old threads older than <code>age</code>. ClueBot III does not appear to run every single day. Thus, even when archiving has been running for a while, some threads may end up in an archive that is one month later than when they were last edited.<br/> </p> </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"> <td><div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-wikitext mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="p">{{</span><span class="nn">User</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="nt">MiszaBot/config</span> <span class="p">|</span><span class="nl"> algo</span><span class="o">=</span>old(90d) <span class="p">|</span><span class="nl"> archive</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="p">{{</span><span class="nn">SUBST</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="nt">#titleparts:</span><span class="p">{{</span><span class="nn">SUBST</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="nt">FULLPAGENAME</span><span class="p">}}}}</span>/Archives/%(year)d/%(monthname)s <span class="p">|</span><span class="nl"> minthreadsleft</span><span class="o">=</span>4 <span class="p">|</span><span class="nl"> minthreadstoarchive</span><span class="o">=</span>2 <span class="p">}}</span> </pre></div> </td> <td><div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-wikitext mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="p">{{</span><span class="nn">User</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="nt">ClueBot III/ArchiveThis</span> <span class="p">|</span><span class="nl"> age</span><span class="o">=</span>2160 <span class="p">|</span><span class="nl"> archiveprefix</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="p">{{</span><span class="nn">SUBST</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="nt">#titleparts:</span><span class="p">{{</span><span class="nn">SUBST</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="nt">FULLPAGENAME</span><span class="p">}}}}</span>/Archives/ <span class="p">|</span><span class="nl"> minkeepthreads</span><span class="o">=</span>4 <span class="p">|</span><span class="nl"> minarchthreads</span><span class="o">=</span>2 <span class="p">|</span><span class="nl"> format</span><span class="o">=</span>Y/F <span class="p">}}</span> </pre></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2">Both of the above examples will create archive pages, as needed, with names similar to <code>YourPage/Archives/June</code>, <code>YourPage/Archives/July</code>, etc. Only sections with dates that are older than 90 days (2,160 hours) will be archived in these examples. </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bot_and_config_details" data-mw-thread-id="h-Bot_and_config_details-Automated_archiving"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Bot_and_config_details-Automated_archiving"></span>Bot and config details<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Bot_and_config_details-Automated_archiving"></span></h3></div> <p>The configuration template for lowercase sigmabot III is still named {{<a href="/wiki/User:MiszaBot/config" title="User:MiszaBot/config">User:MiszaBot/config</a>}} even though the original bots, <a href="/wiki/User:MiszaBot_I" class="mw-redirect" title="User:MiszaBot I">MiszaBot I</a>, <a href="/wiki/User:MiszaBot_II" class="mw-redirect" title="User:MiszaBot II">MiszaBot II</a>, and <a href="/wiki/User:MiszaBot_III" class="mw-redirect" title="User:MiszaBot III">MiszaBot III</a>, are no longer active. </p><p>The best age for threads to be archived will vary, depending on talk page activity. The purpose of archiving article talk pages should be to remove stale discussions, not to stifle discussion. Article talk page threads should not typically be archived in less than 30 days except for very busy talk pages. </p><p>The <code>maxarchivesize</code>/<code>maxarchsize</code> parameter determines how large each archive is allowed to grow before a new archive is started. Keeping this value larger than a typical talk page allows the archives to be browsed more easily, but increases page load times. Each individual archive should not be larger than 512kB, because this may cause accessibility problems for some devices. Because a large batch of threads can "overshoot" the <code>maxarch[ive]size</code> parameter, the parameter should always be set lower than the maximum acceptable archive size. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Category:Pages_where_archive_parameter_is_not_a_subpage" data-mw-thread-id="h-Category:Pages_where_archive_parameter_is_not_a_subpage-Automated_archiving"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Category:Pages_where_archive_parameter_is_not_a_subpage-Automated_archiving"></span>Category:Pages where archive parameter is not a subpage<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Category:Pages_where_archive_parameter_is_not_a_subpage-Automated_archiving"></span></h3></div> <p>One limitation of the way automatic archival instructions are set up is how page moves will easily break the functionality. For several reasons, the bots will generally only archive to subpages; that is, the archive must reside as one or more subpages to the talk page in question. </p><p>When a page is renamed (moved) and the user forgets to also update the bot instructions, this means that no further archiving will take place (until the bot instructions are updated manually). To facilitate identifying cases where archiving is interrupted, the <a href="/wiki/Category:Pages_where_archive_parameter_is_not_a_subpage" title="Category:Pages where archive parameter is not a subpage">Category:Pages where archive parameter is not a subpage</a> was created. </p><p>If your talk page isn't archiving properly, you might want to check this category. 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title="Template:Archive">Archive</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> <span style="color:gray;">(banner placed on archive pages with navigation)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Talk_header" title="Template:Talk header">Talk header</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> <span style="color:gray;">(banner with talk page guidelines and archives)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Archive_top" title="Template:Archive top">Archive top</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> / <small><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Atop" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Atop">Atop</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></small> <span style="color:gray;">(archives/closes discussion)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:Lowercase_sigmabot_III/Archive_HowTo" title="User:Lowercase sigmabot III/Archive HowTo">lowercase sigmabot III (MiszaBot)</a> <span style="color:gray;">(most popular auto archiving bot)</span></li> <li><a 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style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Annual_archive" title="Template:Annual archive">Annual archive</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Archived_annually" title="Template:Archived annually">Archived annually</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Archive" title="Template:Archive">Archive</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> <span style="color:gray;">(does not need parameter)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Archives_by_months" title="Template:Archives by months">Archives by months</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Month-year_archive_nav" title="Template:Month-year archive nav">Month-year archive nav</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Monthly_archived_talk" title="Template:Monthly archived talk">Monthly archived talk</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:UserTalkArchive" title="Template:UserTalkArchive">UserTalkArchive</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Warning_archive_notice" title="Template:Warning archive notice">Warning archive notice</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Without<br/>navigation</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Archive_index" title="Template:Archive index">Archive index</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Archiving" title="Template:Archiving">Archiving</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></li></ul> 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title="Template:Atopy">atopy</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></small></li> <li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Archive_bottom" title="Template:Archive bottom">Archive bottom</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> / <small><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Abot" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Abot">abot</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></small></li> <li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Closed_rfc_top" title="Template:Closed rfc top">Closed rfc top</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Collapse" title="Template:Collapse">Collapse</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Collapse_top" title="Template:Collapse top">Collapse top</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Collapse_bottom" title="Template:Collapse bottom">Collapse bottom</a><span 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</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Lists</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Archive_list" title="Template:Archive list">Archive list</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> <span style="color:gray;">(numbered archives usually the default)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Archive_list_alpha" title="Template:Archive list alpha">Archive list alpha</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Monthly_archive_list" title="Template:Monthly archive list">Monthly archive list</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Yearly_archive_list" title="Template:Yearly archive list">Yearly archive list</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Discussion</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Archive_request" title="Template:Archive request">Archive request</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Please_archive" title="Template:Please archive">Please archive</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Uw-archive" title="Template:Uw-archive">uw-archive</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Automatic<br/>archiving<br/>systems</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/User:ClueBot_III" title="User:ClueBot III">ClueBot III</a> <ul><li>{{<a href="/wiki/User:ClueBot_III/ArchiveNow" title="User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow">User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow</a>}}</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:HBC_Archive_Indexerbot/OptIn" title="User:HBC Archive Indexerbot/OptIn">HBC Archive Indexerbot (Legobot)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:Lowercase_sigmabot_III/Archive_HowTo" title="User:Lowercase sigmabot III/Archive HowTo">lowercase sigmabot III (MiszaBot)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:Evad37/OneClickArchiver" title="User:Evad37/OneClickArchiver">OneClickArchiver</a></li> <li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Archive_basics" title="Template:Archive basics">Archive basics</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Archive_now" title="Template:Archive now">Archive now</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></li> <li>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Bump" title="Template:Bump">subst:Bump</a>}}</li> <li>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Do_not_archive_until" title="Template:Do not archive until">subst:Do not archive until</a>}}</li> <li>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Install_one_click_archiver" title="Template:Install one click archiver">subst:Install one click archiver</a>}}</li> <li>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Pin_section" title="Template:Pin section">subst:Pin section</a>}}</li> <li>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Setup_auto_archiving" title="Template:Setup auto archiving">subst:Setup auto archiving</a>}}</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div> <ul><li><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Category"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Symbol_category_class.svg/16px-Symbol_category_class.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Symbol_category_class.svg/23px-Symbol_category_class.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Symbol_category_class.svg/31px-Symbol_category_class.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185"/></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Category:Archival_templates" title="Category:Archival templates">Category:Archival templates</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="For_archive_pages" data-mw-thread-id="h-For_archive_pages-Templates"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-For_archive_pages-Templates"></span>For archive pages<span data-mw-comment-end="h-For_archive_pages-Templates"></span></h3></div> <p>A template should be placed at the top of each archive page indicating that it is an archive. The simplest such template, which is automatically added (using its earlier names) by ClueBot III and Lowercase sigmabot III, is <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Archive" title="Template:Archive">Archive</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span>. If the page is using sequentially numbered archives, the template will add navigation links to earlier and later archives (<a href="/wiki/Talk:2009_flu_pandemic/Archive_5" class="mw-redirect" title="Talk:2009 flu pandemic/Archive 5">example</a>). The archiving bots can be configured to use templates like this using the <code>header</code> and <code>archiveheader</code> parameters, respectively. For example (for ClueBot III), <code class="tpl-para" style="word-break:break-word;">|header=<span class="nowrap">{{Archive}}</span></code>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="For_talk_pages" data-mw-thread-id="h-For_talk_pages-Templates"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-For_talk_pages-Templates"></span>For talk pages<span data-mw-comment-end="h-For_talk_pages-Templates"></span></h3></div> <p>There are many templates that can be placed on talk pages to make the page's archives visible and accessible to editors. These can be broadly divided into "boxes" (which generally appear floating to the right of the table of contents), and banners. Some pages use one or the other, and some use both. Templates dedicated to archiving should generally be <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:TALKORDER" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:TALKORDER">placed last</a>, after all other talk templates, but before the discussions proper. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Archive_link_boxes" data-mw-thread-id="h-Archive_link_boxes-For_talk_pages"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Archive_link_boxes-For_talk_pages"></span>Archive link boxes<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Archive_link_boxes-For_talk_pages"></span></h4></div> <p><span class="anchor" id="Archive_box"></span> On regularly archived talk pages, it is useful to have an "archive box" template. Common usage is to place the archive box below other header templates and before the first section heading so that the box appears to the right of the <a href="/wiki/Help:Section#Table_of_contents_(TOC)" title="Help:Section">table of contents</a>. If the page already has a manual archive box, add the link to the new archive page to it. If there is no archive box yet, you may want to set one up. </p><p>The most common archive box template is <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Archives" title="Template:Archives">Archives</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span>. It has a significant number of options. The <code>auto</code> option causes the box to automatically find your archive page list. If <code>auto=yes</code> or <code>auto=short</code> the links are shown as "<code>1, 2, 3</code>". If <code>auto=long</code> the links are shown as "<code>Archive 1, Archive 2, Archive 3</code>"). If the archives do not follow the standard naming scheme (/Archive #), or date labels are desired a manual list can be inputted in the first unnamed parameter as seen in example 2 below. There are also options which show a search field, permit the box to collapse/expand, start the box collapsed/expanded, etc. Many of these are shown in example 4 and all of them are explained in more detail at <a href="/wiki/Template:Archive/doc" title="Template:Archive/doc">Template:Archive/doc</a>. </p> <dl><dt>Example 1</dt></dl> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238436933"> <table id="archivebox" role="presentation" class="ombox ombox-notice mbox-small" style="text-align: center; padding: 1em;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding:0.6em 0 0.25em;"> <div style="width:100%; overflow:hidden;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Replacement_filing_cabinet.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2a/Replacement_filing_cabinet.svg/40px-Replacement_filing_cabinet.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2a/Replacement_filing_cabinet.svg/60px-Replacement_filing_cabinet.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2a/Replacement_filing_cabinet.svg/80px-Replacement_filing_cabinet.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="200"/></a></span><br/><b>Archives</b></div> </td></tr><tr> <td class="plainlinks"> <table style="width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-align: center; background-color: transparent;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Help_talk:Archiving_a_talk_page/Archive_1" title="Help talk:Archiving a talk page/Archive 1">Archive 1</a></td><td><a href="/wiki/Help_talk:Archiving_a_talk_page/Archive_2" title="Help talk:Archiving a talk page/Archive 2">Archive 2</a></td><td><a href="/wiki/Help_talk:Archiving_a_talk_page/Archive_3" title="Help talk:Archiving a talk page/Archive 3">Archive 3</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Help_talk:Archiving_a_talk_page/Archive_4" title="Help talk:Archiving a talk page/Archive 4">Archive 4</a></td><td><a href="/wiki/Help_talk:Archiving_a_talk_page/Archive_5" title="Help talk:Archiving a talk page/Archive 5">Archive 5</a></td><td><a href="/wiki/Help_talk:Archiving_a_talk_page/Archive_6" title="Help talk:Archiving a talk page/Archive 6">Archive 6</a></td></tr></tbody></table> </td> </tr><tr><td style="padding-bottom:11px"><div class="mw-inputbox-centered" style=""><form name="searchbox" class="searchbox mw-inputbox-form" action="/wiki/Special:Search"><div class="cdx-text-input"><input class="mw-inputbox-input mw-searchInput searchboxInput cdx-text-input__input" name="search" placeholder="" size="22" dir="ltr"/></div><input type="hidden" value="Help talk:Archiving a talk page" name="prefix"/><br/><input type="submit" name="fulltext" value="Search archives" class="cdx-button"/><input type="hidden" value="Search" name="fulltext"/></form></div> </td></tr><tr><td style="padding:0px 10px; font-size:11.9px;"> <hr/> This page has archives. Sections older than <b>180 days</b> may be automatically archived by <span class="nowraplinks"><a href="/wiki/User:Lowercase_sigmabot_III" title="User:Lowercase sigmabot III">Lowercase sigmabot III</a></span> when more than 5 sections are present.</td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>For a box with an automatically generated archive list with a search bar. <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Archives" title="Template:Archives">Archives</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> can be used without any extra parameters. </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <dl><dt>Example 2</dt></dl> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238436933"> <table id="archivebox" role="presentation" class="ombox ombox-notice mbox-small" style="text-align: center; padding: 1em;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding:0.6em 0 0.25em;"> <div style="width:100%; overflow:hidden;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Replacement_filing_cabinet.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2a/Replacement_filing_cabinet.svg/40px-Replacement_filing_cabinet.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2a/Replacement_filing_cabinet.svg/60px-Replacement_filing_cabinet.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2a/Replacement_filing_cabinet.svg/80px-Replacement_filing_cabinet.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="200"/></a></span><br/><b>Archives</b></div> </td></tr><tr> <td class="plainlinks"> </td></tr><tr><td class="plainlinks" style="padding:0px 10px; text-align:left;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help_talk:Archiving_a_talk_page/Archive_1" title="Help talk:Archiving a talk page/Archive 1">2003–2006</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help_talk:Archiving_a_talk_page/Archive_2" title="Help talk:Archiving a talk page/Archive 2">2006–2007</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help_talk:Archiving_a_talk_page/Archive_3" title="Help talk:Archiving a talk page/Archive 3">2007–2009</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help_talk:Archiving_a_talk_page/Archive_4" title="Help talk:Archiving a talk page/Archive 4">2008–2014</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help_talk:Archiving_a_talk_page/Archive_5" title="Help talk:Archiving a talk page/Archive 5">2014–2019</a></li></ul> </td> </tr><tr><td style="padding-bottom:11px"><div class="mw-inputbox-centered" style=""><form name="searchbox" class="searchbox mw-inputbox-form" action="/wiki/Special:Search"><div class="cdx-text-input"><input class="mw-inputbox-input mw-searchInput searchboxInput cdx-text-input__input" name="search" placeholder="" size="22" dir="ltr"/></div><input type="hidden" value="Help:Archiving a talk page/" name="prefix"/><br/><input type="submit" name="fulltext" value="Search archives" class="cdx-button"/><input type="hidden" value="Search" name="fulltext"/></form></div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>For a box with a manual archive list and a search bar <span class="nowrap">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Archives" title="Template:Archives">Archives</a>|<i>List of archives</i>}}</span> can be used. For the box to the right the code is: </p> <p><br/></p><div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-wikitext mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="p">{{</span><span class="nt">tlp</span><span class="p">|</span>Archives<span class="p">|</span> *<span class="p">[[</span><span class="nn">Help_talk</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="nt">Archiving_a_talk_page/Archive_1</span><span class="p">|</span>2003–2006<span class="p">]]</span> *<span class="p">[[</span><span class="nn">Help_talk</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="nt">Archiving_a_talk_page/Archive_2</span><span class="p">|</span>2006–2007<span class="p">]]</span> *<span class="p">[[</span><span class="nn">Help_talk</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="nt">Archiving_a_talk_page/Archive_3</span><span class="p">|</span>2007–2009<span class="p">]]</span> *<span class="p">[[</span><span class="nn">Help_talk</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="nt">Archiving_a_talk_page/Archive_4</span><span class="p">|</span>2008–2014<span class="p">]]</span> *<span class="p">[[</span><span class="nn">Help_talk</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="nt">Archiving_a_talk_page/Archive_5</span><span class="p">|</span>2014–2019<span class="p">]]}}</span> </pre></div> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <dl><dt>Example 3</dt></dl> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238436933"> <table id="archivebox" role="presentation" class="ombox ombox-notice mbox-small" style="text-align: center; padding: 1em;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding:0.6em 0 0.25em;"> <div style="width:100%; overflow:hidden;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Replacement_filing_cabinet.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2a/Replacement_filing_cabinet.svg/40px-Replacement_filing_cabinet.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2a/Replacement_filing_cabinet.svg/60px-Replacement_filing_cabinet.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2a/Replacement_filing_cabinet.svg/80px-Replacement_filing_cabinet.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="200"/></a></span><br/><b>Archives</b></div> </td></tr><tr> <td class="plainlinks"> <table style="width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-align: center; background-color: transparent;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Archives/Archive_1" title="Template talk:Archives/Archive 1">Archive 1</a></td><td><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Archives/Archive_2" title="Template talk:Archives/Archive 2">Archive 2</a></td><td><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Archives/Archive_3" title="Template talk:Archives/Archive 3">Archive 3</a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td class="plainlinks" style="padding:0px 10px; text-align:left;"> <p><b>Archive box archives</b>:<br/><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Archive_box/Archive_1" title="Template talk:Archive box/Archive 1">Archive 1</a>, <a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Archive_box/Archive_1" title="Template talk:Archive box/Archive 1">Archive 1</a> </p> </td> </tr><tr><td style="padding-bottom:11px"><div class="mw-inputbox-centered" style=""><form name="searchbox" class="searchbox mw-inputbox-form" action="/wiki/Special:Search"><div class="cdx-text-input"><input class="mw-inputbox-input mw-searchInput searchboxInput cdx-text-input__input" name="search" placeholder="" size="22" dir="ltr"/></div><input type="hidden" value="Template talk:Archives" name="prefix"/><br/><input type="submit" name="fulltext" value="Search archives" class="cdx-button"/><input type="hidden" value="Search" name="fulltext"/></form></div> </td></tr><tr><td style="padding:0px 10px; font-size:11.9px;"> <hr/> This page has archives. Sections older than <b>90 days</b> may be automatically archived by <span class="nowraplinks"><a href="/wiki/User:Lowercase_sigmabot_III" title="User:Lowercase sigmabot III">Lowercase sigmabot III</a></span> when more than 4 sections are present.</td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>For a box with both an automatic and manual list <span class="nowrap">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Archives" title="Template:Archives">Archives</a>|<i>List of archives</i>}}</span> can be used. The example below for <a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Archives" title="Template talk:Archives">Template talk:Archives</a> where the archives for the old <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Archive_box" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Archive box">archive box</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> template are shown use the following code: <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-wikitext mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><span class="p">{{</span><span class="nt">Archives</span><span class="p">|</span><span class="nl">auto</span><span class="o">=</span>long<span class="p">|</span><span class="gs">'''Archive box archives'''</span>:<span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">br</span><span class="p">>[[</span><span class="nn">Template talk</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="nt">Archive box/Archive 1</span><span class="p">|</span>Archive 1<span class="p">]]</span>, <span class="p">[[</span><span class="nn">Template talk</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="nt">Archive box/Archive 1</span><span class="p">|</span>Archive 1<span class="p">]]}}</span></code> </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <dl><dt>Example 4</dt></dl> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238436933"> <table id="archivebox" role="presentation" class="ombox ombox-notice mbox-small mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align: center; padding: 1em; background-color:#FFAAAA; width:140px"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding:0.6em 0 0.25em;"> <div style="width:100%; overflow:hidden;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Crystal_Clear_app_file-manager.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Crystal_Clear_app_file-manager.png/60px-Crystal_Clear_app_file-manager.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="60" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Crystal_Clear_app_file-manager.png/90px-Crystal_Clear_app_file-manager.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Crystal_Clear_app_file-manager.png/120px-Crystal_Clear_app_file-manager.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128"/></a></span><br/><b>These are the archives!</b></div> </td></tr><tr> <td class="plainlinks"> <p><a href="/wiki/Help_talk:Archiving_a_talk_page/Archive_1" title="Help talk:Archiving a talk page/Archive 1">1</a>, <a href="/wiki/Help_talk:Archiving_a_talk_page/Archive_2" title="Help talk:Archiving a talk page/Archive 2">2</a>, <a href="/wiki/Help_talk:Archiving_a_talk_page/Archive_3" title="Help talk:Archiving a talk page/Archive 3">3</a>, <a href="/wiki/Help_talk:Archiving_a_talk_page/Archive_4" title="Help talk:Archiving a talk page/Archive 4">4</a>, <a href="/wiki/Help_talk:Archiving_a_talk_page/Archive_5" title="Help talk:Archiving a talk page/Archive 5">5</a>, <a href="/wiki/Help_talk:Archiving_a_talk_page/Archive_6" title="Help talk:Archiving a talk page/Archive 6">6</a> </p> </td> </tr><tr><td style="padding:0px 10px; font-size:11.9px;"> <hr/> This page has archives. Sections older than <b>180 days</b> may be automatically archived by <span class="nowraplinks"><a href="/wiki/User:Lowercase_sigmabot_III" title="User:Lowercase sigmabot III">Lowercase sigmabot III</a></span> when more than 5 sections are present.</td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>This template just demonstrate a lot of the parameters. Most of them are quite self explanatory. <br/> </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-wikitext mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="p">{{</span><span class="nt">archives</span> <span class="p">|</span><span class="nl"> auto </span><span class="o">=</span> short <span class="p">|</span><span class="nl"> search </span><span class="o">=</span> no <span class="p">|</span><span class="nl"> root </span><span class="o">=</span> Help talk:Archiving a talk page <span class="p">|</span><span class="nl"> collapsible </span><span class="o">=</span> yes <span class="p">|</span><span class="nl"> collapsed </span><span class="o">=</span> yes <span class="p">|</span><span class="nl"> style </span><span class="o">=</span> background-color:#FFAAAA; width:140px <span class="p">|</span><span class="nl"> title </span><span class="o">=</span> These are the archives! <span class="p">|</span><span class="nl"> image </span><span class="o">=</span> File:Crystal Clear app file-manager.png <span class="p">|</span><span class="nl"> image-size </span><span class="o">=</span> 60px <span class="p">|</span><span class="nl"> bot </span><span class="o">=</span> Lowercase sigmabot III <span class="p">|</span><span class="nl"> age </span><span class="o">=</span> 1 <span class="p">|</span><span class="nl"> units </span><span class="o">=</span> year <span class="p">}}</span> </pre></div> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Automatic_archive_boxes_for_year/month_archives" data-mw-thread-id="h-Automatic_archive_boxes_for_year/month_archives-For_talk_pages"><span id="Automatic_archive_boxes_for_year.2Fmonth_archives"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Automatic_archive_boxes_for_year/month_archives-For_talk_pages"></span>Automatic archive boxes for year/month archives<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Automatic_archive_boxes_for_year/month_archives-For_talk_pages"></span></h4></div> <p>Automatic archive boxes for Year/Month archives are a bit more complicated. </p><p>The most common method is by using the <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Archives_by_months" title="Template:Archives by months">Archives by months</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> template to generate links to your existing archives. It produces a live link for each existing archive month within a year. It is commonly used in something similar to: </p> <table border="0"> <tbody><tr> <td width="400"><div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-wikitext mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="p">{{</span><span class="nt">Archive box</span> <span class="p">|</span><span class="nl">search</span><span class="o">=</span>yes <span class="p">|</span><span class="nl">collapsible</span><span class="o">=</span>yes <span class="p">|</span> <span class="nl">bot</span><span class="o">=</span>ClueBot III <span class="p">|</span><span class="nl">age</span><span class="o">=</span>90 <span class="p">|</span> <span class="nl">title</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="p">[[</span><span class="nn">Help</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="nt">Archiving a talk page</span><span class="p">|</span>Archives<span class="p">]]</span><span class="cm"></span> ([[<span class="p">{{</span><span class="nf">#titleparts</span><span class="p">:{{</span><span class="nf">TALKPAGENAME</span><span class="p">}}|</span>1<span class="p">}}</span>/Archive index<span class="p">|</span>index]])<span class="p">|</span> <span class="p">{{</span><span class="nt">Nowrap</span><span class="p">|</span><span class="gs">'''2004'''</span>: <span class="p">{{</span><span class="nt">Archives by months</span><span class="p">|</span>2004<span class="p">}}}}</span> <span class="p">{{</span><span class="nt">Nowrap</span><span class="p">|</span><span class="gs">'''2005'''</span>: <span class="p">{{</span><span class="nt">Archives by months</span><span class="p">|</span>2005<span class="p">}}}}</span> <span class="p">{{</span><span class="nt">Nowrap</span><span class="p">|</span><span class="gs">'''2006'''</span>: <span class="p">{{</span><span class="nt">Archives by months</span><span class="p">|</span>2006<span class="p">}}}}</span> <span class="p">{{</span><span class="nt">Nowrap</span><span class="p">|</span><span class="gs">'''2007'''</span>: <span class="p">{{</span><span class="nt">Archives by months</span><span class="p">|</span>2007<span class="p">}}}}</span> <span class="p">{{</span><span class="nt">Nowrap</span><span class="p">|</span><span class="gs">'''2008'''</span>: <span class="p">{{</span><span class="nt">Archives by months</span><span class="p">|</span>2008<span class="p">}}}}</span> <span class="p">{{</span><span class="nt">Nowrap</span><span class="p">|</span><span class="gs">'''2009'''</span>: <span class="p">{{</span><span class="nt">Archives by months</span><span class="p">|</span>2009<span class="p">}}}}</span> <span class="p">{{</span><span class="nt">Nowrap</span><span class="p">|</span><span class="gs">'''2010'''</span>: <span class="p">{{</span><span class="nt">Archives by months</span><span class="p">|</span>2010<span class="p">}}}}</span> <span class="p">{{</span><span class="nt">Nowrap</span><span class="p">|</span><span class="gs">'''2011'''</span>: <span class="p">{{</span><span class="nt">Archives by months</span><span class="p">|</span>2011<span class="p">}}}}</span> <span class="p">{{</span><span class="nt">Nowrap</span><span class="p">|</span><span class="gs">'''2012'''</span>: <span class="p">{{</span><span class="nt">Archives by months</span><span class="p">|</span>2012<span class="p">}}}}</span> <span class="p">{{</span><span class="nt">Nowrap</span><span class="p">|</span><span class="gs">'''2013'''</span>: <span class="p">{{</span><span class="nt">Archives by months</span><span class="p">|</span>2013<span class="p">}}}}</span> <span class="p">{{</span><span class="nt">Nowrap</span><span class="p">|</span><span class="gs">'''2014'''</span>: <span class="p">{{</span><span class="nt">Archives by months</span><span class="p">|</span>2014<span class="p">}}}}</span> <span class="p">{{</span><span class="nt">Nowrap</span><span class="p">|</span><span class="gs">'''2015'''</span>: <span class="p">{{</span><span class="nt">Archives by months</span><span class="p">|</span>2015<span class="p">}}}}</span> <span class="gs">'''2016'''</span>: <span class="p">{{</span><span class="nt">Archives by months</span><span class="p">|</span>2016<span class="p">}}</span> <span class="p">}}</span> </pre></div> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238436933"> <table id="archivebox" role="presentation" class="ombox ombox-notice mbox-small mw-collapsible" style="text-align: center; padding: 1em; background-color:#F8EABA; border-color:#C0C090;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding:0.6em 0 0.25em;"> <div style="width:100%; overflow:hidden;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Replacement_filing_cabinet.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2a/Replacement_filing_cabinet.svg/40px-Replacement_filing_cabinet.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2a/Replacement_filing_cabinet.svg/60px-Replacement_filing_cabinet.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2a/Replacement_filing_cabinet.svg/80px-Replacement_filing_cabinet.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="200"/></a></span><br/><b><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Archives</a> (<a href="/wiki/Help_talk:Archiving_a_talk_page/Archive_index" title="Help talk:Archiving a talk page/Archive index">index</a>)</b></div> </td></tr><tr> <td class="plainlinks"> </td></tr><tr><td class="plainlinks" style="padding:0px 10px; text-align:left;"> <p><span class="nowrap"><b>2004</b>: <span style="color: #DEB887;">Jan</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Feb</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Mar</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Apr</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">May</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Jun</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Jul</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Aug</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Sep</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Oct</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Nov</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Dec</span></span> <span class="nowrap"><b>2005</b>: <span style="color: #DEB887;">Jan</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Feb</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Mar</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Apr</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">May</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Jun</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Jul</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Aug</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Sep</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Oct</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Nov</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Dec</span></span> <span class="nowrap"><b>2006</b>: <span style="color: #DEB887;">Jan</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Feb</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Mar</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Apr</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">May</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Jun</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Jul</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Aug</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Sep</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Oct</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Nov</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Dec</span></span> <span class="nowrap"><b>2007</b>: <span style="color: #DEB887;">Jan</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Feb</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Mar</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Apr</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">May</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Jun</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Jul</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Aug</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Sep</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Oct</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Nov</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Dec</span></span> <span class="nowrap"><b>2008</b>: <span style="color: #DEB887;">Jan</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Feb</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Mar</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Apr</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">May</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Jun</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Jul</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Aug</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Sep</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Oct</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Nov</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Dec</span></span> <span class="nowrap"><b>2009</b>: <span style="color: #DEB887;">Jan</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Feb</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Mar</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Apr</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">May</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Jun</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Jul</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Aug</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Sep</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Oct</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Nov</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Dec</span></span> <span class="nowrap"><b>2010</b>: <span style="color: #DEB887;">Jan</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Feb</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Mar</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Apr</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">May</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Jun</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Jul</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Aug</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Sep</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Oct</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Nov</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Dec</span></span> <span class="nowrap"><b>2011</b>: <span style="color: #DEB887;">Jan</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Feb</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Mar</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Apr</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">May</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Jun</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Jul</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Aug</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Sep</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Oct</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Nov</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Dec</span></span> <span class="nowrap"><b>2012</b>: <span style="color: #DEB887;">Jan</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Feb</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Mar</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Apr</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">May</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Jun</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Jul</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Aug</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Sep</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Oct</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Nov</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Dec</span></span> <span class="nowrap"><b>2013</b>: <span style="color: #DEB887;">Jan</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Feb</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Mar</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Apr</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">May</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Jun</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Jul</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Aug</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Sep</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Oct</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Nov</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Dec</span></span> <span class="nowrap"><b>2014</b>: <span style="color: #DEB887;">Jan</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Feb</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Mar</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Apr</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">May</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Jun</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Jul</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Aug</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Sep</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Oct</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Nov</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Dec</span></span> <span class="nowrap"><b>2015</b>: <span style="color: #DEB887;">Jan</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Feb</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Mar</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Apr</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">May</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Jun</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Jul</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Aug</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Sep</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Oct</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Nov</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Dec</span></span> <b>2016</b>: <span style="color: #DEB887;">Jan</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Feb</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Mar</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Apr</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">May</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Jun</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Jul</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Aug</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Sep</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Oct</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Nov</span> <span style="color: #DEB887;">Dec</span> </p> </td> </tr><tr><td style="padding-bottom:11px"><div class="mw-inputbox-centered" style=""><form name="searchbox" class="searchbox mw-inputbox-form" action="/wiki/Special:Search"><div class="cdx-text-input"><input class="mw-inputbox-input mw-searchInput searchboxInput cdx-text-input__input" name="search" placeholder="" size="22" dir="ltr"/></div><input type="hidden" value="Help:Archiving a talk page/" name="prefix"/><br/><input type="submit" name="fulltext" value="Search archives" class="cdx-button"/><input type="hidden" value="Search" name="fulltext"/></form></div> </td></tr><tr><td style="padding:0px 10px; font-size:11.9px;"> <hr/></td></tr> </tbody></table> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The above code produces the archive box to the above right. The example here has no month names which are links because there are no archive files for this page. You can, of course, delete the lines for the years you don't want. </p><p>The default for the <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Archives_by_months" title="Template:Archives by months">Archives by months</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> template is that archive page names are in the format <span class="nowrap"><code>YourPage/Archives/2013/June</code></span>, <span class="nowrap"><code>YourPage/Archives/2013/July</code></span>, etc. However, <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Archives_by_months" title="Template:Archives by months">Archives by months</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> allows you to specify various naming conventions for your archives. Archives can have an arbitrary prefix by using the <code>archprefix</code> parameter (e.g. <code>archprefix=Archive/</code> instead of Archive<ins>s</ins>/). Months can be in four formats: A) the default uses January, February, March, etc.; B) <code>abbrev3=yes</code> months are Jan, Feb, Mar, etc.; C) <code>numbers=yes</code> months are 1, 2, 3, ... 12; D) <code>numbers0=yes</code> months are 01, 02, 03, ... 12. </p><p>If you are using ClueBot III, it has a couple of additional options for creating an archive box. These involve the use of either the <code>archivebox</code> or the <code>index</code> parameters. See the <a href="/wiki/User:ClueBot_III#How_to_archive_your_page" title="User:ClueBot III">ClueBot III page</a> for more information. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Archive_link_banner" data-mw-thread-id="h-Archive_link_banner-For_talk_pages"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Archive_link_banner-For_talk_pages"></span>Archive link banner<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Archive_link_banner-For_talk_pages"></span></h4></div> <p>Instead of putting the archive links in a box that floats to the right or left, some prefer the links in a banner like <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Talk_header" title="Template:Talk header">Talk header</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span>. Yearly and alphabetic archives are automatically detected in addition to regular sequential archives. A search box is by default included and if the page is archived by bots an auto archiving notice can be included by specifying <code class="tpl-para" style="word-break:break-word;">|archive_age=</code> in days. </p><p>{{Talk header}} </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237879475">.mw-parser-output .tmbox{margin:4px 0;border-collapse:collapse;border:1px solid #c0c090;background-color:#f8eaba;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .tmbox.mbox-small{font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .tmbox-speedy{border:2px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .tmbox-delete{border:2px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .tmbox-content{border:2px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .tmbox-style{border:2px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .tmbox-move{border:2px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .tmbox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.9em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .tmbox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .tmbox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .tmbox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .tmbox .mbox-invalid-type{text-align:center}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .tmbox{margin:4px 10%}.mw-parser-output .tmbox.mbox-small{clear:right;float:right;margin:4px 0 4px 1em;width:238px}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .tmbox{background-color:#2e2505}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .tmbox-speedy{background-color:#310402}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .tmbox{background-color:#2e2505}html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .tmbox-speedy{background-color:#310402}}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output table.tmbox img{max-width:none!important}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1230750088">.mw-parser-output .talkheader{text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .talkheader-body{display:flex}.mw-parser-output .talkheader-help,.mw-parser-output .talkheader-policies,.mw-parser-output .talkheader-shortcuts{display:flex;align-items:center;padding:0.1em}.mw-parser-output .talkheader-help{flex:2 1 auto;border:1px solid #c0c090;background-color:var(--background-color-base,#ffffff);color:inherit}.mw-parser-output .talkheader-policies{flex:1 1 auto}.mw-parser-output .talkheader-policies+.talkheader-policies{border-left:1px solid #c0c090}.mw-parser-output .talkheader-shortcuts{flex:0 1 auto}.mw-parser-output .talkheader-help>*,.mw-parser-output .talkheader-policies>*,.mw-parser-output .talkheader-shortcuts>*{flex:1 1 auto}.mw-parser-output .talkheader-help ul,.mw-parser-output .talkheader-policies ul{margin:0.1em 0.8em 0 1.6em;text-align:left}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .talkheader{min-width:80%}}</style><table role="presentation" class="tmbox tmbox-notice talkheader plainlinks" id="talkheader" style="border-collapse: separate;"><tbody><tr> <td style="border-bottom: 1px solid #c0c090; font-weight: bold;">This is the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Talk_page_guidelines" title="Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines">talk page</a> for discussing improvements to the <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Archiving a talk page</a> page.<br/></td> </tr> <tr> <td> <div class="talkheader-body"> <div class="talkheader-help"> <ul><li>Put new text under old text. <strong><a href="/wiki/Special:NewSection/Help_talk:Archiving_a_talk_page" title="Special:NewSection/Help talk:Archiving a talk page">Click here to start a new topic.</a></strong></li> <li>New to Wikipedia? Welcome! <a href="/wiki/Help:Introduction" title="Help:Introduction">Learn to edit</a>; <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Questions" title="Wikipedia:Questions">get help</a>.</li></ul> </div> <div class="talkheader-policies"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_good_faith" title="Wikipedia:Assume good faith">Assume good faith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Civility" title="Wikipedia:Civility">Be polite</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_personal_attacks" title="Wikipedia:No personal attacks">avoid personal attacks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_do_not_bite_the_newcomers" title="Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers">Be welcoming to newcomers</a></li> <li>Seek <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution_requests" title="Wikipedia:Dispute resolution requests">dispute resolution</a> if needed</li></ul> </div> </div> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p><b>The archive links show up in a row at the bottom of the above banner.</b> For a real world example see <a href="/wiki/Talk:Proxima_Centauri" title="Talk:Proxima Centauri">Talk:Proxima Centauri</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Archive_indexing" data-mw-thread-id="h-Archive_indexing"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Archive_indexing"></span>Archive indexing<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Archive_indexing"></span></h2></div> <p>Having an archive index makes finding old discussions on a given topic easier, particularly in pages with many archives, or when the archives are of considerable size. An archive index, when one exists, is typically stored on the page <code>Talk:YourPage/Archive index</code>. While it is possible to generate an index by hand, the <code>/Archive index</code> page is normally generated automatically. There are two bots which automatically create indexes: <a href="/wiki/User:Legobot" title="User:Legobot">Legobot</a> and <a href="/wiki/User:ClueBot_III" title="User:ClueBot III">ClueBot III</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/User:Legobot" title="User:Legobot">Legobot</a>, formerly <a href="/wiki/User:HBC_Archive_Indexerbot" title="User:HBC Archive Indexerbot">HBC Archive Indexerbot</a>, can create an archive index page based on a set of archives. See <b><a href="/wiki/User:HBC_Archive_Indexerbot#Instructions" title="User:HBC Archive Indexerbot">the bot's instructions</a></b> for details on how to set up archive indexing. Legobot generated archive indexes are the most commonly available type of index. To set up Legobot archiving you have to create your <code>Talk:YourPage/Archive index</code> page and <b>need to place</b>:<br/><code></code><br/> on top of the index page. The following is a Legobot configuration that works with numbered archives which you can place on the page you are archiving: </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2">Example Legobot configurations </th></tr> <tr> <th>Numbered archives</th> <th>Archives/Year/Month </th></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td><div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-wikitext mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="p">{{</span><span class="nn">User</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="nt">HBC Archive Indexerbot/OptIn</span> <span class="p">|</span><span class="nl">target</span><span class="o">=</span>/Archive index <span class="p">|</span><span class="nl">mask</span><span class="o">=</span>/Archive <#> <span class="p">|</span><span class="nl">leading_zeros</span><span class="o">=</span>0 <span class="p">|</span><span class="nl">indexhere</span><span class="o">=</span>yes <span class="p">}}</span> </pre></div> </td> <td><div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-wikitext mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="p">{{</span><span class="nn">User</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="nt">HBC Archive Indexerbot/OptIn</span> <span class="p">|</span><span class="nl">target</span><span class="o">=</span>/Archive index <span class="p">|</span><span class="nl">mask</span><span class="o">=</span>/Archives/<year>/<month> <span class="p">|</span><span class="nl">indexhere</span><span class="o">=</span>yes <span class="p">}}</span> </pre></div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><a href="/wiki/User:ClueBot_III" title="User:ClueBot III">ClueBot III</a> automatically creates an archive index when archiving. ClueBot III stores the archive indexes it creates on unique pages in its user space. The archive index for the page you are archiving can be <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:TRANS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:TRANS">transcluded</a> onto your <code>Talk:YourPage/Archive index</code> page by putting the following text in that page:<br/> <code>{{User:ClueBot III/Master Detailed Indices/{{NAMESPACE}}:{{BASEPAGENAME}}}}</code> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Archive_searching" data-mw-thread-id="h-Archive_searching"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Archive_searching"></span>Archive searching<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Archive_searching"></span></h2></div> <p>If there are several archives, it is easy to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Search" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Search">search</a> them all at once using the optional search parameter <i>prefix</i>. For example, suppose we want to begin a discussion about adding a security section to the Linux article. Before bringing up the topic we can do the following search: <code><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=security+prefix%3ATalk%3ALinux%2F&ns0=1&fulltext=Search">security prefix:Talk:Linux/</a></span></code>. This will look in all the subpages of the Linux article in its <i>Talk</i> namespace. </p><p>The templates <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Archives" title="Template:Archives">Archives</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span>, <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Archive_box" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Archive box">Archive box</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span>, and <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Talk_header" title="Template:Talk header">Talk header</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> have a parameter <code>search=yes</code> which provides a helpful search box on the talk page to automate searching, as do independent search templates such as <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Search_archives" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Search archives">search archives</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span>. It is recommended that when a page is archived, such a template be put on the surviving talk page to simplify access to past discussions. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Continuing_discussions" data-mw-thread-id="h-Continuing_discussions"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Continuing_discussions"></span>Continuing discussions<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Continuing_discussions"></span></h2></div> <p>If a thread has been archived prematurely, such as when it is still relevant to current work or was not concluded, unarchive it by copying it back to the talk page from the archive, and deleting it from the archive. Do not unarchive a thread that was effectively closed; instead, start a new discussion and link to the archived prior discussion. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Example_pages" data-mw-thread-id="h-Example_pages"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Example_pages"></span>Example pages<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Example_pages"></span></h2></div> <p>Here are actual discussion pages on Wikipedia where you can study the code to see how archive pages were created. </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Talk:Telekinesis" title="Talk:Telekinesis">Talk:Telekinesis</a> has a simple archive box with a search field.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Talk:Jesus" title="Talk:Jesus">Talk:Jesus</a> has a mixture of numbered and topical archives. It also includes a summary of recently archived discussions.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Talk:Main_Page" title="Talk:Main Page">Talk:Main Page</a> has many numbered archives. The archives are listed on a separate subpage and transcluded.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="See_also" data-mw-thread-id="h-See_also"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-See_also"></span>See also<span data-mw-comment-end="h-See_also"></span></h2></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Archiving_(plain_and_simple)" title="Help:Archiving (plain and simple)">Help:Archiving (plain and simple)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Using_talk_pages" class="mw-redirect" title="Help:Using talk pages">Help:Using talk pages</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Closing_discussions" title="Wikipedia:Closing discussions">Wikipedia:Closing discussions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Refactoring_talk_pages" title="Wikipedia:Refactoring talk pages">Wikipedia:Refactoring talk pages</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Module:Archive_list" title="Module:Archive list">Module:Archive list</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Lua" title="Wikipedia:Lua">Lua</a> code that drives Archive templates</li> <li>Pages that need archiving <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Archive_requests" title="Category:Archive requests">Category Archive requests</a> is populated by the <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Archiveme" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Archiveme">Archiveme</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> template.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Templates_for_archiving" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible uncollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Templates_for_archiving" title="Template:Templates for archiving"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Templates_for_archiving" title="Template talk:Templates for archiving"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Templates_for_archiving" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Templates for archiving"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Templates_for_archiving" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Templates for archiving</div></th></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Archiving_(plain_and_simple)" title="Help:Archiving (plain and simple)">Archiving (simple)</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Archiving (technical)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Recommended</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Archives" title="Template:Archives">Archives</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> <span style="color:gray;">(very configurable side box or banner for main talk page)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Archive" title="Template:Archive">Archive</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> <span style="color:gray;">(banner placed on archive pages with navigation)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Talk_header" title="Template:Talk header">Talk header</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> <span style="color:gray;">(banner with talk page guidelines and archives)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Archive_top" title="Template:Archive top">Archive top</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> / <small><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Atop" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Atop">Atop</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></small> <span style="color:gray;">(archives/closes discussion)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:Lowercase_sigmabot_III/Archive_HowTo" title="User:Lowercase sigmabot III/Archive HowTo">lowercase sigmabot III (MiszaBot)</a> <span style="color:gray;">(most popular auto archiving bot)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:One_click_archiving" title="Wikipedia:One click archiving">Wikipedia:One click archiving</a> <span style="color:gray;">(archiver scripts)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Side box</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Archives" title="Template:Archives">Archives</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Headers</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">With<br/>navigation</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Annual_archive" title="Template:Annual archive">Annual archive</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Archived_annually" title="Template:Archived annually">Archived annually</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Archive" title="Template:Archive">Archive</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> <span style="color:gray;">(does not need parameter)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Archives_by_months" title="Template:Archives by months">Archives by months</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Month-year_archive_nav" title="Template:Month-year archive nav">Month-year archive nav</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Monthly_archived_talk" title="Template:Monthly archived talk">Monthly archived talk</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:UserTalkArchive" title="Template:UserTalkArchive">UserTalkArchive</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Warning_archive_notice" title="Template:Warning archive notice">Warning archive notice</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Without<br/>navigation</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Archive_index" title="Template:Archive index">Archive index</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Archiving" title="Template:Archiving">Archiving</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">With<br/>search</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Talk_header" title="Template:Talk header">Talk header</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> <span style="color:gray;">(contains an automatically appearing archive search box and nav)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Content<br/>formatting</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Archive_top" title="Template:Archive top">Archive top</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> / <small><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Atop" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Atop">atop</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></small></li> <li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Archive_top_green" title="Template:Archive top green">Archive top green</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> / <small><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Atopg" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Atopg">atopg</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></small></li> <li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Archive_top_red" title="Template:Archive top red">Archive top red</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> / <small><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Atopr" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Atopr">atopr</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></small></li> <li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Archive_top_yellow" title="Template:Archive top yellow">Archive top yellow</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> / <small><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Atopy" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Atopy">atopy</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></small></li> <li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Archive_bottom" title="Template:Archive bottom">Archive bottom</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> / <small><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Abot" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Abot">abot</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></small></li> <li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Closed_rfc_top" title="Template:Closed rfc top">Closed rfc top</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Collapse" title="Template:Collapse">Collapse</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Collapse_top" title="Template:Collapse top">Collapse top</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Collapse_bottom" title="Template:Collapse bottom">Collapse bottom</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Hidden_archive_top" title="Template:Hidden archive top">Hidden archive top</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> / <small><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Hat" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Hat">hat</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></small></li> <li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Hidden_archive_bottom" title="Template:Hidden archive bottom">Hidden archive bottom</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> / <small><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Hab" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Hab">hab</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></small></li> <li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Poll_top" title="Template:Poll top">Poll top</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Poll_bottom" title="Template:Poll bottom">Poll bottom</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Lists</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Archive_list" title="Template:Archive list">Archive list</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> <span style="color:gray;">(numbered archives usually the default)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Archive_list_alpha" title="Template:Archive list alpha">Archive list alpha</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Monthly_archive_list" title="Template:Monthly archive list">Monthly archive list</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Yearly_archive_list" title="Template:Yearly archive list">Yearly archive list</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Discussion</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Archive_request" title="Template:Archive request">Archive request</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Please_archive" title="Template:Please archive">Please archive</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Uw-archive" title="Template:Uw-archive">uw-archive</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Automatic<br/>archiving<br/>systems</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/User:ClueBot_III" title="User:ClueBot III">ClueBot III</a> <ul><li>{{<a href="/wiki/User:ClueBot_III/ArchiveNow" title="User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow">User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow</a>}}</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:HBC_Archive_Indexerbot/OptIn" title="User:HBC Archive Indexerbot/OptIn">HBC Archive Indexerbot (Legobot)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:Lowercase_sigmabot_III/Archive_HowTo" title="User:Lowercase sigmabot III/Archive HowTo">lowercase sigmabot III (MiszaBot)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:Evad37/OneClickArchiver" title="User:Evad37/OneClickArchiver">OneClickArchiver</a></li> <li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Archive_basics" title="Template:Archive basics">Archive basics</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Archive_now" title="Template:Archive now">Archive now</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></li> <li>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Bump" title="Template:Bump">subst:Bump</a>}}</li> <li>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Do_not_archive_until" title="Template:Do not archive until">subst:Do not archive until</a>}}</li> <li>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Install_one_click_archiver" title="Template:Install one click archiver">subst:Install one click archiver</a>}}</li> <li>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Pin_section" title="Template:Pin section">subst:Pin section</a>}}</li> <li>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Setup_auto_archiving" title="Template:Setup auto archiving">subst:Setup auto archiving</a>}}</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div> <ul><li><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Category"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Symbol_category_class.svg/16px-Symbol_category_class.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Symbol_category_class.svg/23px-Symbol_category_class.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Symbol_category_class.svg/31px-Symbol_category_class.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185"/></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Category:Archival_templates" title="Category:Archival templates">Category:Archival templates</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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style="text-align: center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Technical" title="Wikipedia:FAQ/Technical">General<br/>technical help</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Browser_notes" title="Wikipedia:Browser notes">Browser notes</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Bypass_your_cache" title="Wikipedia:Bypass your cache">Bypass cache</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Keyboard_shortcuts" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Keyboard shortcuts">Keyboard shortcuts</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Editing" title="Help:Editing">Editing</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:CharInsert" title="Help:CharInsert">CharInsert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Edit_conflict" title="Help:Edit conflict">Edit conflict</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Edit_toolbar" title="Help:Edit toolbar">Edit toolbar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Reverting" title="Help:Reverting">Reverting</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_create_a_page" title="Wikipedia:How to create a page">How to create a page</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:IRC" title="Wikipedia:IRC">IRC</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:IRC/Tutorial" title="Wikipedia:IRC/Tutorial">Tutorial</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Mobile_access" title="Help:Mobile access">Mobile access</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Multilingual_support" title="Help:Multilingual support">Multilingual support</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Page_history" title="Help:Page history">Page history</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Page_information" title="Help:Page information">Page information</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Page_name" title="Wikipedia:Page name">Page name</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Page_name" title="Help:Page name">Help</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Printing" title="Help:Printing">Printing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Software_notices" title="Wikipedia:Software notices">Software notices</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Editnotice" title="Wikipedia:Editnotice">Editnotice</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Special_characters" title="Help:Special characters">Special Characters</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Entering_special_characters" title="Help:Entering special characters">Entering</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:User_access_levels" title="Wikipedia:User access levels">User access levels</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:VisualEditor" title="Wikipedia:VisualEditor">VisualEditor</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:VisualEditor" title="Help:VisualEditor">Help</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Special:SpecialPages" title="Special:SpecialPages">Special<br/>page</a>-related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Special_page" title="Help:Special page">Special page help</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:AllPages" title="Help:AllPages">AllPages</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_filter" title="Wikipedia:Edit filter">Edit filter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Emailing_users" title="Wikipedia:Emailing users">Emailing users</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Logging_in" title="Help:Logging in">Logging in</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Reset_password" title="Help:Reset password">Reset passwords</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Log" title="Help:Log">Logs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Moving_a_page" title="Wikipedia:Moving a page">Moving a page</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:History_merging" title="Wikipedia:History merging">History merging</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:When_to_place_technical_requests_in_%22Administrator_needed%22" title="Help:When to place technical requests in "Administrator needed"">Non-admin and admin-only page moves</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Notifications" title="Help:Notifications">Notifications/Echo</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Notifications/FAQ" title="Help:Notifications/FAQ">FAQ</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Page_Curation/Help" title="Wikipedia:Page Curation/Help">Page Curation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Import" title="Help:Import">Page import</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Pending_changes" title="Wikipedia:Pending changes">Pending changes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Random" title="Wikipedia:Random">Random pages</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Recent_changes" title="Help:Recent changes">Recent changes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Related_changes" title="Help:Related changes">Related changes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Searching" title="Help:Searching">Searching</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Linksearch" title="Help:Linksearch">Linksearch</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Tags" title="Wikipedia:Tags">Tags</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:User_contributions" title="Help:User contributions">User contributions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Watchlist" title="Help:Watchlist">Watchlist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:What_links_here" title="Help:What links here">What links here</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Help:Wikitext" title="Help:Wikitext">Wikitext</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Wikitext" title="Help:Wikitext">Wikitext</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Cheatsheet" title="Help:Cheatsheet">Cheatsheet</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Columns" title="Help:Columns">Columns</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Line-break_handling" title="Help:Line-break handling">Line-break handling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:List" title="Help:List">Lists</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Magic_words" title="Help:Magic words">Magic words</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Magic_words_for_beginners" title="Help:Magic words for beginners">For beginners</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Conditional_expressions" title="Help:Conditional expressions">Conditional expressions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Switch_parser_function" title="Help:Switch parser function">Switch parser function</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Time_function" title="Help:Time function">Time function</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Redirect" title="Help:Redirect">Redirects</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Section" title="Help:Section">Sections and TOCs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Table" title="Help:Table">Tables</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Introduction_to_tables_with_Wiki_Markup/1" title="Help:Introduction to tables with Wiki Markup/1">Introduction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Basic_table_markup" title="Help:Basic table markup">Basics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Advanced_table_formatting" title="Help:Advanced table formatting">Advanced table formatting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Collapsing" class="mw-redirect" title="Help:Collapsing">Collapsing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Conditional_tables" title="Help:Conditional tables">Conditional tables</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Sortable_tables" title="Help:Sortable tables">Sortable tables</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Using_colours" title="Help:Using colours">Using colours</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Help:Link" title="Help:Link">Links</a> and <a href="/wiki/Help:Diff" title="Help:Diff">diffs</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Link" title="Help:Link">Links</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Interlanguage_links" title="Help:Interlanguage links">Interlanguage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Interwiki_linking" title="Help:Interwiki linking">Interwiki</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Permanent_link" title="Help:Permanent link">Permanent</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Diff" title="Help:Diff">Diffs</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Simplest_diff_guide" title="Wikipedia:Simplest diff guide">Simplest diff guide</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Simple_diff_and_link_guide" title="Wikipedia:Simple diff and link guide">Simple diff and link guide</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Complete_diff_and_link_guide" title="Wikipedia:Complete diff and link guide">Complete diff and link guide</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Colon_trick" title="Help:Colon trick">Colon trick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Link_color" title="Help:Link color">Link color</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Pipe_trick" title="Help:Pipe trick">Pipe trick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:URL" title="Help:URL">URLs</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Media" class="mw-disambig" title="Wikipedia:Media">Media</a> files: images,<br/>videos and sounds</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Media" title="Help:Media">Media help</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Files" title="Help:Files">Files</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Creation_and_usage_of_media_files" title="Help:Creation and usage of media files">Creation and usage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Moving_files_to_Commons" title="Wikipedia:Moving files to Commons">Moving files to Commons</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Images" title="Wikipedia:Images">Images</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Introduction_to_images_with_Wiki_Markup/1" title="Help:Introduction to images with Wiki Markup/1">Introduction to images</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Pictures" title="Help:Pictures">Picture tutorial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Preparing_images_for_upload" title="Wikipedia:Preparing images for upload">Preparing images for upload</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Uploading_images" title="Wikipedia:Uploading images">Uploading images</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Options_to_hide_an_image" title="Help:Options to hide an image">Options to hide an image</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Extended_image_syntax" title="Wikipedia:Extended image syntax">Extended image syntax</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SVG_help" title="Wikipedia:SVG help">SVG help</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Gallery_tag" title="Help:Gallery tag">Gallery tag</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Graphics_tutorials" title="Wikipedia:Graphics tutorials">Graphics tutorials</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Basic_bitmap_image_editing" title="Wikipedia:Basic bitmap image editing">Basic bitmap image editing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_improve_image_quality" title="Wikipedia:How to improve image quality">How to improve image quality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Graphics_Lab/Resources" title="Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Resources">Graphics Lab resources</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Sound_file_markup" title="Help:Sound file markup">Sound file markup</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Visual_file_markup" title="Help:Visual file markup">Visual file markup</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%">Other graphics</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Family_trees" title="Help:Family trees">Family trees</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Graphs_and_charts" title="Wikipedia:Graphs and charts">Graphs and charts</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_create_charts_for_Wikipedia_articles" title="Wikipedia:How to create charts for Wikipedia articles">How to create</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Barchart" title="Help:Barchart">Barcharts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:To_scale_charts" title="Wikipedia:To scale charts">To scale charts</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Displaying_a_formula" title="Help:Displaying a formula">Math formulas</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Displaying_a_formula#Use_of_HTML_templates" title="Help:Displaying a formula">Math symbols</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Score" title="Help:Score">Musical scores</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Musical_symbols" title="Help:Musical symbols">Musical symbols</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Timeline" title="Wikipedia:Timeline">Timeline</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:EasyTimeline_syntax" title="Help:EasyTimeline syntax">EasyTimeline syntax</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:WikiHiero_syntax" title="Help:WikiHiero syntax">WikiHiero syntax</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Help:A_quick_guide_to_templates" title="Help:A quick guide to templates">Templates</a> and<br/><a href="/wiki/Lua_(programming_language)" title="Lua (programming language)">Lua</a> modules</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Template" title="Help:Template">Templates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Advanced_template_coding" title="Wikipedia:Advanced template coding">Advanced template coding</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_documentation" title="Wikipedia:Template documentation">Template documentation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_index" title="Wikipedia:Template index">Template index</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Template_limits" title="Help:Template limits">Template limits</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_sandbox_and_test_cases" title="Wikipedia:Template sandbox and test cases">Template sandbox and test cases</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_templates" title="Wikipedia:Citation templates">Citation templates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Lua" title="Help:Lua">Lua help</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Lua" title="Wikipedia:Lua">Lua project</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Lua/Resources" title="Wikipedia:Lua/Resources">Resources</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Lua/To_do" title="Wikipedia:Lua/To do">To do</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Substitution" title="Help:Substitution">Substitution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Purge" title="Help:Purge">Purge</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Job_queue" title="Help:Job queue">Job queue</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Transclusion" title="Help:Transclusion">Transclusion</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Labeled_section_transclusion" title="Help:Labeled section transclusion">Labeled section</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Transclusion_costs_and_benefits" title="Wikipedia:Transclusion costs and benefits">Costs and benefits</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Guide_to_Scribbling" title="Wikipedia:Guide to Scribbling">Guide to Scribbling</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Administration#Data_structure_and_development" title="Wikipedia:Administration">Data structure</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Namespace" title="Wikipedia:Namespace">Namespaces</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:What_is_an_article%3F" title="Wikipedia:What is an article?">Main/Article</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Category" title="Help:Category">Category</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Drafts" title="Wikipedia:Drafts">Draft</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Files" title="Help:Files">File</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:File_description_page" title="Help:File description page">File description page</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_namespace" title="Wikipedia:Help namespace">Help</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Portal" title="Wikipedia:Portal">Portal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Project_namespace" title="Wikipedia:Project namespace">Project/Wikipedia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Talk_pages" title="Help:Talk pages">Talk</a> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Archiving</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Archiving_(plain_and_simple)" title="Help:Archiving (plain and simple)">Simple</a></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_namespace" title="Wikipedia:Template namespace">Template</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:User_pages" title="Wikipedia:User pages">User</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:User_page_design_guide" title="Wikipedia:User page design guide">User page design</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:MediaWiki_namespace" title="Help:MediaWiki namespace">MediaWiki</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Bug_reports_and_feature_requests" title="Wikipedia:Bug reports and feature requests">Bug reports and feature requests</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TimedMediaHandler" class="extiw" title="mw:Extension:TimedMediaHandler">TimedMediaHandler extension</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Lua" title="Wikipedia:Lua">Module</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Special_page" title="Help:Special page">Special</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/HTML" title="HTML">HTML</a> and <a href="/wiki/CSS" title="CSS">CSS</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Cascading_Style_Sheets" title="Help:Cascading Style Sheets">Cascading Style Sheets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:HTML_in_wikitext" title="Help:HTML in wikitext">HTML in wikitext</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Catalogue_of_CSS_classes" title="Wikipedia:Catalogue of CSS classes">Catalogue of CSS classes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Common.js_and_common.css" title="Wikipedia:Common.js and common.css">Common.js and common.css</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:Mxt/User_CSS_for_a_monospaced_coding_font" title="Template:Mxt/User CSS for a monospaced coding font">User CSS for monospaced coding font</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Microformats/classes" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Microformats/classes">Classes in microformats</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Markup_validation" title="Help:Markup validation">Markup validation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Span_tags" title="Wikipedia:Span tags">Span tags</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Useful_styles" title="Help:Useful styles">Useful styles</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Customisation" title="Wikipedia:Customisation">Customisation</a><br/>and tools</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Preferences" title="Help:Preferences">Preferences</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Gadget" title="Wikipedia:Gadget">Gadgets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Skin" title="Wikipedia:Skin">Skins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Citation_tools" title="Help:Citation tools">Citation tools</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Cleaning_up_vandalism/Tools" title="Wikipedia:Cleaning up vandalism/Tools">Cleaning up vandalism tools</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Customizing_watchlists" title="Wikipedia:Customizing watchlists">Customizing watchlists</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Hide_Pages_in_Watchlist" title="Help:Hide Pages in Watchlist">Hide pages</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Scripts" title="Wikipedia:Scripts">IRC Scripts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:User_scripts" title="Wikipedia:User scripts">User scripts</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:User_scripts/Guide" title="Wikipedia:User scripts/Guide">Guide</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:User_scripts/List" title="Wikipedia:User scripts/List">List</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:User_scripts/Techniques" title="Wikipedia:User scripts/Techniques">Techniques</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:User_style" title="Help:User style">User style</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Tools" title="Wikipedia:Tools">Tools</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Tools/Alternative_browsing" title="Wikipedia:Tools/Alternative browsing">Alternative browsing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Tools/Browser_tools" title="Wikipedia:Tools/Browser tools">Browser tools</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Tools/Editing_tools" title="Wikipedia:Tools/Editing tools">Editing tools</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation_shortcuts" title="Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation shortcuts">Navigation shortcuts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Tools/Optimum_tool_set" title="Wikipedia:Tools/Optimum tool set">Optimum tool set</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikimedia_Cloud_Services" title="Wikipedia:Wikimedia Cloud Services">Wikimedia Cloud Services</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features" class="extiw" title="mw:Beta Features">Beta Features at MediaWiki</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%">Automated editing</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Articles_for_creation/Helper_script" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Helper script">AfC helper script</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:AntiVandal" title="Wikipedia:AntiVandal">AntiVandal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser" title="Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser">AutoWikiBrowser</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots" title="Wikipedia:Bots">Bots</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Creating_a_bot" title="Help:Creating a bot">Creating</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:History_of_Wikipedia_bots" title="Wikipedia:History of Wikipedia bots">history</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:HotCat" title="Wikipedia:HotCat">HotCat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Huggle" title="Wikipedia:Huggle">Huggle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation_popups" 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