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In a low-activity talk page such as Talk:Pacific Ocean, I don't see the point of archiving discussions, like was done here:
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1. The page is not too large, or the thread too long.
2. It is not difficult to find threads, as there was a total of only 8 topics.
3. Threads with no signature and no date were left alone, and some of these are from 2006 or earlier.
4. One thread which had its last signed post in 2006 was left untouched.
Well, this is controlled by the settings on the page. The bot did leave the correct number of sections. Also the bot does not archive any sections that have no dates or bad dates since it can not be sure that those sections should be archived. So your issue seems to be that too few current sections are left because of the bad dated ones. I'll manually archive the old ones which anyone can do. Vegaswikian (talk) 21:01, 22 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Could someone explain which settings on Pacific Ocean talk page dictate how the bot performs its archiving? I really wonder what type of settings would leave only one topic on the talk page (as of right now). And can these be changed?
Also, I left a note on this talk page on 11/22, before Thanksgiving, and I just thought I'd look today at it for a response. It has been 10 days since then. I noticed that this has been archived already (maybe an automatic end-of-month action?). Am I the only one who thinks this is an unnecessarily short time before archiving discussions?
minthreadsleft is what controls this. Since there were bad dates in several sections, the bot ran correctly and left those 6, 5 of which had bad/missing dates. So when those were manually removed it left one section. Normal activity will return this to 6 active sections over time. Vegaswikian (talk) 22:50, 1 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Judgment call by those enabling the settings. Generally 4-6 threads on an article page are normal. As to the archiving of your post on this page, I believe I missed it. We try to handle inquiries here as the bot owner has been inactive for some time. I'll adjust the archiving to something longer. ⋙–Berean–Hunter—►16:59, 2 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Just a heads up
Hi. :) Love your bot, and I realize that you're not particularly active at the moment, but I wanted to let you know that it may be giving some issues with archiving ANI. I've put a note at AN about it. Talk page stalkers also welcome to help out there. :D --Moonriddengirl(talk)13:25, 3 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
It skipped over a slew of sections on Talk:Two envelopes problem/Arguments. The ones where I dug through the page history to add the datestamps. Arrgh. Why does it care when or how the date was added? Something about the date being inside "<span class="autosigned"> ... </span>"?
—WWoods (talk) 20:45, 6 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I've removed the span tags and the trailing HTML comment on the first thread to see if you're on the right path. This makes me wonder if it is related to the rollout of the newer Wiki interface. ⋙–Berean–Hunter—►23:54, 7 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Greetings. MiszaBot III, you do sterling work archiving my talk page for which I am grateful. Your most recent effort suggested that there may be some tweaks which your esteemed bot master could perhaps make to improve your effectiveness. If you look at your contributions here, here and here you will see that you correctly identified that the archive was full: you successfully moved two talk topics, one to the older archive and one to a new archive. On closer inspection, you may find that you omitted to move the top topic from the talk page, and archived instead the second and third topics. This is by no means a complaint, and I do not believe I have found a serious problem - but I thought I should alert you. Best wishes, RobertG ♬ talk08:09, 6 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
You've archived it manually, but the problem was that the datestamp you added had the date but not full format, including the time: "13:46, 17 September 2010 (UTC)".
Perhaps I've missed something but when MiszaII did this I was a bit confused to not find it in the archives. I suspect that it failed because the string was globally blacklisted, however if the contents of the discussion could be placed in the archive it would allow us to have the reference (annother set of IP addresses are trying to donate material that they don't have ownership of) Hasteur (talk) 00:14, 9 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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This edit by MiszaBot III should have removed the section User Talk:Arthur Rubin#Commons File license since it removed seven more recent sections. Obviously that section has been overlooked many times before. I tried removing some special characters in the signature which might have inhibited the bot, but that did not work. So this appears to be another bug in the bot. Please fix it. JRSpriggs (talk) 13:20, 5 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi Bot, what happened here? The bot just threw away some recent threads. These are the changes to my talk page since the previous successful archival action of the bot. Do you think I did something wrong there? Cheers and TIA for looking into this. - DVdm (talk) 14:19, 16 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
This is another one like this section above where the bot tried to archive itself. Those pipes are supposed to be flush and not indented, I believe, so that it recognizes them as parameters. I believe that is in the How-to document. I have corrected these on your page. ⋙–Berean–Hunter—►16:44, 16 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, found it..."The bot expects to see only one parameter per line. The closing }} must be on its own line. There must be no leading spaces before the pipes. If you drop out the newlines used in the above example, e.g. by wrapping the template invocation onto a single line, the bot may not do what you expect."
Dave: Archive the Talkpage Misza, Misza 9000: I'm sorry Dave, but I can't do that. Dave: What's the problem? Misza 9000: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do. Dave: What are you talking about, Misza? Misza 9000: Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye. (Archiving 1 thread(s) (older than 24h) to /dev/null.) -PenyulapTalk Dec 2011_
I noticed a bug, which I'm unable to pinpoint the cause of, and I'm giving up trying. I mention it, as it may be easier to treat it from the programming end. If MiszaBot II's functioning for deleting text (moving to /dev/null) had an extra safeguard that'd be cool. In a tiny number of cases, less than 20 I think, on three pages, MiszaBot II moved to null without being specifically requested by his users to do so. The revision history pages here and here during 2011, and here in the latter half of 2011 illustrate the minor problem. I apologize if you are already aware of this problem. I prefer replies on my talkpagePenyulap talk06:54, 7 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
The bot archived itself (or tried to). Weird. In each case, the bot's code has been indented one space, instead of having the "|"s at the left margin. As I recall, this bot does not ignore such spaces; it looks for "<linefeed>|" as the separator between parameters.
MiszaBot III has not archived my talk page for 20 days. Please note that it has archived my talk page last on 2nd December and my talk page has 23 posts currently. All my paremeters are correct and proper in the template but it is not archiving. I think the bot's too tired.--Ankit MaityTalk • contribs06:11, 23 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, folks from cs wiki would like to set up archiving bot, is it possible to send me a source of misza bot which you are using for archiving? Thank you Petrb (talk) 17:55, 23 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
There was a blacklisted url in the text of what it tried to archive...it was disallowed. I restored the text and mangled the url so it should archive correctly on the next go round. ⋙–Berean–Hunter—►20:40, 29 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
