Template talk:Auto archiving notice/Archive 1

"small=yes" stopped working
anyone know why? – xeno cidic  ( 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 that broke things:  But it was fixed the same day. By the way,  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. – xeno cidic  ( 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:

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

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 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?
How about changing the  parameter to the more intuitive , as in ?

—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)
 * 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 . --Kslotte (talk) 15:05, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

Relevant village pump discussion
Please se Village pump (technical). Graham 87 14:31, 6 August 2010 (UTC)


 * That discussion has been archived to Village pump (technical)/Archive 79. Graham 87 15:17, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Units parameter request
Hi, could the template be altered so that it checks whether what is in the  parameter ends in an "s", and if it doesn't, appends one automatically? [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_College_Basketball&diff=prev&oldid=470946828 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. — Rich wales 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.  —  Rich wales 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  parameter is used when the template is set to small, but it will display irrespective of the   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
Please make it possible to add free text to replace the standardized phrasings.

See here for the use case and rationale:

Template talk:Archives CapnZapp (talk) 22:01, 20 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Withdrawn and superseded by (below) CapnZapp (talk) 10:57, 21 October 2020 (UTC)