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User:MummificationBot
Basic instructions; copy/paste this at the top of a talkpage:
{{Talkpage/Pibot |algo = old(30d) |archive = {{subst:NAMESPACE}}:{{subst:PAGENAME}}/Archive%(counter)d }}
This will archive sections that have been inactive for 30 days.
Full parameters can be seen at the archive.py help page.
You can use Talkpage/PibotHidden if you don't want the green box with a list of archives.
Prevent archiving[edit]
The easiest way is to add (sticky) add the end of a title, for example:
== Hi there (sticky) ==
You can also "schedule" a section for archival with a fake timestamp in comments:
<!-- Prevent Archive 21:09, 1 December 2016 (UTC) -->
Means the bot won't archive it until the 1st of December 2016 plus whatever you set algo to.
Tech notes[edit]
Uses the Pywikibot's (2.0rc3) archive.py script being run as:
python2.7 pwb.py archivebot.py Talkpage/PibotHidden 2>&1 python2.7 pwb.py archivebot.py Talkpage/Pibot 2>&1
Doesn't seem to like Python 3.4...