User talk:ClueBot Commons/Archives/2019/November

Can this parameter be added to Cluebot III: minimum-days-before-archiving

| minimum-days-before-archiving

For example:

| minimum-days-before-archiving=30 days -- Timeshifter (talk) 08:07, 1 November 2019 (UTC)

That's what age is, except it's in hours. -- Cobi^(t|c|b) 09:59, 1 November 2019 (UTC)

Yes, but I want more people to use User:Cluebot III. People are used to days. With Miszabot/Sigmabot it is common for the days to be changed from 14 days to 30 days to 90 days, etc. depending on how busy the talk page is. This would be an additional parameter. Unless it is possible to expand the capability of the age parameter to accept values like "30 days". -- Timeshifter (talk) 11:01, 1 November 2019 (UTC)

Defaulting to date-based rather than numbered archives in JustArchiveThis

The ClueBot III docs start with a quickstart guide, which basically says to subst User:ClueBot III/JustArchiveThis and you're good to go. I think that's a great idea, but I was a little surprised to see that it sets up year/month based archives rather than numbered. Wouldn't numbered archives be better for the average user? WP:ARCHIVE says it's "the most common, and easiest" method. I would think numbered archives would be better for low-traffic talk pages, which, statistically, is most of them. Thoughts on changing JustArchiveThis to use format= %%i and a maxarchsize?

Another alternative would be making User:ClueBot III/JustArchiveThisNumbered and also mentioning it in the quickstart section. Colin M (talk) 01:09, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

Honestly, date-based is less intensive for the bot (it doesn't have to find the right numbered archive), and it's also easier IMHO to find threads for humans, too, so that's why it's the default. You're welcome to create the numbered variant, but for quick and easy, this is what I picked. -- Cobi^(t|c|b) 18:13, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

Response / talk page archiving

Hello. A few weeks I made a request here concerning the documentation. Please see [1]. I got no reply from the bot owner, and this talk page is very aggressively archived. I would respectfully like to ask for a reply. Thank you CapnZapp (talk) 22:27, 8 November 2019 (UTC)

Archiving my talk page

Hi! Can you please archive my talk page? I thought I had set it up so that it would be automatically archived every few days. If I've made a mistake, can you please help me correct it? Thanks! GrammarDamner (talk) 16:41, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

GrammarDamner, I believe the issue is that the thread on your talk page does not have a section header. The bot doesn't recognize your <!-- Messages below this line --> hidden comment, so it assumes that the thread is just header information and shouldn't be archived. --AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 18:22, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

Hmm, ok, that didn't stop the bot from archiving before. But I'll try removing it and see what happens. Thank you, AntiCompositeNumber! GrammarDamner (talk) 18:27, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

GrammarDamner, the issue isn't the HTML comment; the issue is that the only thread currently on your talk page doesn't have a section header. Talk page threads should start with a Level 2 heading, like this one. To get the bot to archive that thread, you'll need to add a Level 2 heading to it, like == Edits to Alaska Folk Festival ==. Headings are how the bot distinguishes between threads. Text placed at the very top of the page that isn't under a heading is not considered to be a discussion thread (it's usually used for talk page templates and, in the case of user talk pages, introductory messages) and thus is never archived. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 18:41, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

Oh, of course! Thank you, K6ka! GrammarDamner (talk) 18:43, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

ClueBot creating indices out of all mainspace articles instead of the relevant archived pages?

What's going on in cases like this talk page where ClueBot has decided to just list all mainspace articles starting with ! (disambiguation)? There are 150 instances of ClueBot doing this and I don't see how I can fix it. – Thjarkur (talk) 20:51, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

weird archiving

Hi! I set up this bot (Cluebot III) to archive my talk page, and it archived the discusions, but now it's putting a bunch of random links under the search button. am I the only one that can see it? What's wrong? Thank you, Yours - Puddleglum2.0 ^{Have a talk?} 20:58, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

I've manually fixed the index at User:ClueBot III/Indices/User talk:Puddleglum2.0, but I'd be interested in knowing how to prevent this from ocurring again. – Thjarkur (talk) 22:13, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

@Thjarkur: Well, it happened again... I do not know why, but all the pages are there again. Thanks - Puddleglum2.0 ^{Have a talk?} 15:15, 20 November 2019 (UTC)