Archive for April 2013 Information

Hi Misza13! I'm investigating all the things that would be important when archiving pages in general, and then I stumbled upon your page. I was wondering whether you by any chance provide the source code of your bot? Regards. -- Edinwiki ( talk) 00:19, 5 April 2013 (UTC) reply

Misza13, I am contacting you in regards to MiszaBot II's archiving of the WP:ANI page. There was a discussion that was still in progress that was near the top of the list, and the discussion never closed, specifically discussions like this one. No action was taken as it should have, and I would be under the assumption that this has been forgotten, since it is no longer on the WP:ANI main page. I'm not sure if this method is some sort of consensus-agreed method, but I do not see how archiving a discussion that has yet to complete on WP:ANI can be considered anything other than disruptive. Steel1943 ( talk) 02:09, 15 April 2013 (UTC) reply

Hello Steel1943. MiszaBot works by date, and does not understand whether the thread is closed. If you check the timestamps, it seems that more than 36 hours have passed since the last edit to this thread (at 00:37 on 13 April). Hence MiszaBot followed its instructions by archiving it at 14:35 on 14 April. I suggest that you manually copy the thread back into ANI. Thanks, EdJohnston ( talk) 02:42, 15 April 2013 (UTC) reply

You will need to add a fresh timestamp to the thread, otherwise the bot will archive it again quickly. You can use {{ DNAU}} or {{ Bump}} for this. -- John of Reading ( talk) 06:28, 15 April 2013 (UTC) reply

Yes, 00:37, 13 April 2013 (UTC)+36 hours = 12:37, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

You can verify the maximum time that a thread can be left before MiszaBot archives it. Edit the original page ( Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents) and locate the {{ User:MiszaBot/config}} template. Look for the |algo= parameter; in this case it's |algo=old(36h) which means that threads will be archived where the most recent timestamp is more than 36 hours earlier.

More at User:MiszaBot/Archive HowTo. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 08:32, 15 April 2013 (UTC) reply

• Hello to everyone who responded. These responses actually slightly stray from my question. My question actually is: Is it plausable for Miszabot II to recognize some sort of archive banner template on the section prior to archiving (as well as the time restraint), or does that seem like too much and could possibly "clog up" the WP:ANI thread? Steel1943 ( talk) 09:12, 15 April 2013 (UTC) reply

• Ah, {{ DNAU}}. Wish that could be automated though ... looks like a thread was archived too early due to not having that template. Steel1943 ( talk) 09:13, 15 April 2013 (UTC) reply

As seen here (Commons), the previous edit is mentioned by the bot in the edit summary. This is really neat. Do you think MiszaBot could do this? Thanks! – Kerαunoςcopia^◁ _{gala xies} 04:34, 27 April 2013 (UTC) reply

In [1] MiszaBot II archived what appeared to be a section with header == *DYNAMIC SECTION TITLE THAT WILL BE PASSED AS A VARIABLE* ==

But the header code was inactivated by being in <pre>...</pre> and was actually part of an earlier section. The <pre> tag was not archived so the page was misformatted afterwards. I have fixed the page and archive. PrimeHunter ( talk) 10:49, 30 April 2013 (UTC) reply