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Views on amending frequency of archiving during disputes
Hi there, I'm not sure if this is the right place to come to but i'd be grateful for views on the discussion at Talk:Pogrom#Archiving. We are discussing whether it is appropriate for anyone to change the timing of Miszabot to a short period (a) whilst they are involved in recent talk discussions which may get archived; and (b) in the face of opposition. Thank you for your help. Oncenawhile (talk) 23:09, 29 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Similar problem but with this user; it is still sending to dev/null. I wonder if it has to do with the periods in the name. I substituted the char mappings from html for a period (.) but I wonder if I shouldn't be using the backslash as an escape sequence (\.) for each period. This bot is written in perl right? ⋙–Berean–Hunter—►21:34, 17 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
You should not have archived my apology to a user to help resolve a conflict. Your robot algorithm needs to be refined to archive what needs to be archived and not archive what should not be archived. Coviepresb1647 (talk) 02:15, 10 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I see that both MiszaBot and ClueBot are set to archive the same page. Me thinks people should decide which one they want to use first. ClueBot is set for 720 hours which is 30 days and MiszaBot is set for 24 hours. Brad (talk) 07:08, 20 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I just found six more threads that were closed but still had the DNAU tag in place; I removed tham. That's the issue here; remove the DNAU tag when closing a discussion. Brad (talk) 02:10, 22 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Problem with bot
The bot's having trouble with archiving my talk page properly, and it's had problems before up to the extent it just stopped doing it. I am almost certain it is to do with the empty topic that starts it off, or the second topic after that which is titled ":)" and contains just a bit o text (forget who it's from now but not me!).
Please explain what The bot's having trouble means. Your talk page as of this post has no discussions older than 7 days which is what you have the bot set for. Sections that don't have time stamps don't get archived. Brad (talk) 22:37, 22 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Archiving at RS/N
This might be a short topic, summarily dismissed, I'm ok with that . Over at RSN there's a small discussion about what to do with "resolved" issues, sometimes as you can imagine, the RSN page gets a little long. It was decided not to use {{Cot}} (or {{hat}}) because it has search problems (see here for details). What, if any, thoughts do you have on adding a parameter that automatically expands the Cots when it archives (by adding the expand parameter to them) to avoid the search problem? -- Despayre tête-à-tête18:22, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
On the Talk:Seamus incident page, the bot archives material, but fails to add a link to the new folder (e.g., "Archive 6") where the archived material is located. The link has to be manually added by an editor. Can you fix this? NJ Wine (talk) 21:23, 26 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
It's probably caused by there not being any archive pages numbered 1-4. Archiving was changed from dated to numerical starting with 5. Another clue this is the problem is the talkheader template not displaying archives. It needs to start with 1. Best suggestion is move the dated archives to the missing numbers. January to 1; Feb to 2 etc. Brad (talk) 23:38, 26 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
That doesn't seem out of place considering the datestamps which were on the threads that just archived. Interestingly, I'm wondering what the bot did with these 8 threads..oops. I've restored them to the archive sans one blacklisted url. I would expect the first thread to archive the next time. ⋙–Berean–Hunter—►14:57, 26 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not sure what you mean by not out of place. It was newer than the threads that were archived, but it is still an old thread, much older than the threshold that has been set up of sixty days...
Note that I don't care about the thread being archived one way or the other - I'm just highlighting it in case there's a bug in the bot. EggCentric16:46, 26 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
The bot archiving the EVP talk page at [1] is not updating the history box. it just made Archive 14 and the last one shown is Archive 11. Can this be fixed? Tom Butler (talk) 01:14, 30 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Not the fault of the bot. The archives for that article are setup incorrectly as they're /Archive1 instead of /Archive 1 and so on down the line. You can either move all of the archive pages to the correct path or continue adding the new archive pages to the history box manually. Note that the setting |archive = Talk:Electronic voice phenomenon/Archive%(counter)d should be changed to |archive = Talk:Electronic voice phenomenon/Archive %(counter)d if it's decided to revamp the archives. Brad (talk) 02:27, 30 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
