Template talk:Auto archiving notice/Archive 1

Archive 1

"small=yes" stopped working

anyone know why? –xenocidic (talk) 15:51, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

I got curious so I checked:

Back then this archiving template was using {{messagebox}}. That day an edit was done to {{messagebox}} that broke things: [1] But it was fixed the same day. By the way, {{messagebox}} is now deprecated and this archiving template now instead uses {{mbox}}.

--David Göthberg (talk) 14:15, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

well that solves that nearly year-old mystery ;> I think I had actually figured this out or was clued in on another template that also got borked due to this. –xenocidic (talk) 15:04, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

How to avoid manual update to archive page?

Is there any way to change the syntax of the following entry to avoid having to manually edit it each and every time the bot creates a new archive page: {{AutoArchivingNotice|small=yes|age=2|target=./Archive 46|dounreplied=yes|index=./Archive index|bot=MiszaBot III}}

Is it possible for this template to use the counter entry from the archive template?

{{User:MiszaBot/config

|maxarchivesize = 250K

|counter = 46

|algo = old(2d)

|archive = User talk:Jimbo Wales/Archive %(counter)d}}

{{AutoArchivingNotice|small=yes|age=2|target=./Archive 45|dounreplied=yes|index=./Archive index|bot=MiszaBot III}}

I keep having to update the archive number to match the counter number each time a new archive page is created by the bot.

Dbiel ^(Talk) 19:00, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

You'd probably be better off asking for MiszaBot itself to be modified so that it updates the auto archiving notice when it starts a new archive. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 11:24, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Auto notice?

"It should be used on pages that are automatically archived."

This makes sense. Maybe the notice should be incorporated into archiving bots, so it could pick up the name, waiting period, etc. from the bot's parameters?
—WWoods (talk) 20:31, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

I don't think that's possible. –xeno^talk 20:47, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

The other way is technically possible. Incorporate the bot into the notification, but that needs a lot of re-designing. --Kslotte (talk) 12:47, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

Redundant parameter

I made a query at User talk:Misza13#dounreplied=no about this parameter of the present notice template. According to the answer I got the value of this parameter can never be other than yes (which is a shame), and that means there is no need to mention it on the documentation for the present template. __meco (talk) 13:08, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

days parameter?

     {{auto archiving notice |bot=MiszaBot I |age=2 |days=weeks }}

How about changing the "days=" parameter to the more intuitive "units=", as in {{archives}}?

     {{archives |bot=MiszaBot I |age=2 |units=weeks }}

—WWoods (talk) 15:19, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Support, consistence between templates. --Kslotte (talk) 15:30, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Now both units and days parameters are accepted. --Kslotte (talk) 11:18, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

For the record. The RegExp to find the days paramter is \{\{[Aa]uto archiving notice(.*)days(.*)\}\}. Redirects can be structured the same way. Anyway, replacing the parameter is still to early at this stage. --Kslotte (talk) 12:01, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

A more developed RegExp that covers also redirects. Find matches for \{\{[Aa]uto( ?)[Aa]rchiving( ?)[Nn]otice(.*)days(.*)\}\} and replace \|(.*)days(.*)= with |units=. The find match regexp doesn't match for multi-lined entries. Any ideas to get multi-lining working with AWB skip-matching functionality? --Kslotte (talk) 14:46, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

Under Tools->Make module paste this in: Rjwilmsi 13:18, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

private static readonly Regex AAN = Tools.NestedTemplateRegex(new List<string>("Auto archiving notice,Autoarchive,AutoArchivingNotice,Autoarchivalnotice,Autoarchivingnotice".Split(',')));

  public string ProcessArticle(string ArticleText, string ArticleTitle, int wikiNamespace, out string Summary, out bool Skip)
        {
        Skip = false;
	int paramsUpdated = 0;

	foreach(Match m in AAN.Matches(ArticleText))
	{
		string newValue = Tools.RenameTemplateParameter(m.Value, "days", "units");

		if(!newValue.Equals(m.Value))
		{
			paramsUpdated++;
			ArticleText = ArticleText.Replace(m.Value, newValue);
		}
	}

	Skip = (paramsUpdated==0);
	Summary = @"Renamed " + paramsUpdated + @" 'days' parameters in [[Template:Auto archiving notice]] to 'units'";
	return ArticleText;
	}

Does this code snippet take into considerations also the format of the redirects [Aa]uto( ?)[Aa]rchiving( ?)[Nn]otice with upper/lowercases and spaces? Should the code be Tools.NestedTemplateRegex("[Aa]uto( ?)[Aa]rchiving( ?)[Nn]otice")? --Kslotte (talk) 14:00, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

Updated for template redirects. Rjwilmsi 14:10, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

Nice, thanks. --Kslotte (talk) 14:16, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

No objections, proceeding with renaming the paramter. Old 'days' parameter still works in the template, but is classified as depracated. --Kslotte (talk) 11:53, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

212 renaming edits done with KslotteBot (talk · contribs). --Kslotte (talk) 15:05, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

Relevant village pump discussion

Please se Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Mysterious whatlinkshere entry. Graham87 14:31, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

That discussion has been archived to Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 79#Mysterious whatlinkshere entry. Graham87 15:17, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Units parameter request

Hi, could the template be altered so that it checks whether what is in the units parameter ends in an "s", and if it doesn't, appends one automatically? Here is a diff of when I fixed such a typo. Thanks. It Is Me Here ^{t / c} 19:55, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Adding "skip to bottom" to this template??

Someone added a new "feature" to this template to automatically include the {{stb}} (skip to bottom) template to the page. This can be turned off by adding nostb=yes to an invocation of the template, but I question whether the feature should have been added here in the first place — especially since there doesn't appear to have been any discussion beforehand. Any thoughts on this? I'm inclined to revert the change and protect this template against future modification by non-sysops, but I'd like to try and see what other people think first. — Richwales 01:58, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

See my rationale here, where I responded to this inquiry on my talk page. I would have no problem with a revert. I would have a problem with full protection on the basis of this one occurrence, as that's no reason, and would fight that. Equazcion ^(talk) 02:06, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

I've reverted the change. I have not put full protection on the template; I don't think that is needed for now. — Richwales 02:24, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

Probably had to happen. Oh well. Equazcion ^(talk) 02:29, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

now defunct miszabots

Since lowercase sigma bots are now archiving Misza bots old work, should the misza bot templates be changed to indicate the bots that are actually doing the work? For instance Talk:Ethics of eating meat still says that misza bot is archiving even though this is no longer true.Cliff (talk) 17:33, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

Index

Am I correct in understanding that the information about the index does not display unless the target parameter is used when the template is set to small, but it will display irrespective of the target parameter if the template isn't set to small? If so, why is that? 142.160.131.202 (talk) 20:17, 18 July 2017 (UTC)

Please implement freetext

Extended content
Please make it possible to add free text to replace the standardized phrasings. See here for the use case and rationale: Template talk:Archives#(1st unnamed parameter) CapnZapp (talk) 22:01, 20 September 2020 (UTC)

Withdrawn and superseded by #General Update (below) CapnZapp (talk) 10:57, 21 October 2020 (UTC)