Template:Highest archive number/doc

This template finds the highest archive number for a given set of archive pages.

Usage

{{highest archive number|prefix|start=start number}}

• prefix - the prefix of the set of archive pages. For example, for Talk:France/Archive 1, Talk:France/Archive 2, etc., the prefix would be "Talk:France/Archive ". For this parameter, whitespace must be input correctly for the template to work.
• start - if the archive numbers do not start at 1, you must specify the starting number here. For example, the first archive for Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Chemicals is Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Chemicals/Archive 2005, so to find the highest archive number you would need to specify |start=2005.

Prefix syntax

When specifying the archive prefix, you need to use the exact whitespace. For example, the following does not work, as there is a new line after the prefix:

{{highest archive number
|prefix
}}

In addition, if your prefix contains any equals signs ("="), you will need to replace them with the code {{=}}, otherwise everything in front of the first equals sign will be interpreted as a parameter name.

Archive number limitations

The module this template is based on uses an exponential search algorithm to find the highest archive number. Due to the way this algorithm works, there cannot be any gaps in the archive numbers. For example, if archives 1, 2, 3 and 5 exist, but not archive 4, then the algorithm makes no guarantees about whether the highest archive number will be 3 or 5.

Examples

• {{highest archive number|Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive}} → 1170
• {{highest archive number|Talk:Byzantine Empire/Archive }} → 16
• {{highest archive number|Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Chemicals/Archive |start=2005}} → 2024