User talk:PirateIzzy

Archive	Date Archived
Archive #1	September 4th, 2013.

Archives and bots

To archive a page all you do is delete all of the content that you want archived. Then you go to the history, pull up the old page or diff and copy the URL. Put the URL on the current page in an archive box. There is {{archive}}, but I like the custom table I made a long time ago. You can copy it from my talk page.

I've been here for six+ years and no one has fully helped me out with bots. >_< I'm hoping someone will make a bot guide some time for the admins. First, you wouldn't be able to get bot access since you don't have admin privileges yet. Then, you have to create a new account for your bot (e.g. PirateIzzyBot; you can do this now if you want to reserve the name, but no guarantee that you will get priveledges). Then a bureaucrat has to give the bot account bot privileges. That's just the set up. Then you have to set up the bot on your end. I don't know where to begin. I thought AutoWikiBrowser was a bot for a long time, but all it does is find pages where a given search term is (and I never got it to work in a way that was reliable or made sense to me >_<). You can feed these results into a bot. Most bots are programmed by the people themselves. If you see someone with a bot (here or elsewhere) ask specific detailed questions on how you can get your hands on the tool(s) they use.

StrategyWiki:Guide/Regular expressions will help, too. --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 15:24, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

The bots are not active programs. They only run when someone tells them to, and they have to be programmed to specifically remove or add content. It would be faster to do it by hand if there is only one page where the monster info is and one page where the list is. However, what you want is a dynamic list across pages, which would not be safe to program or maintain since we allow public editing. That is one benefit to the MapleStory databases like Hidden Street. --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 22:21, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

To archive stuff, just delete it and tell me when you've done that and I'll do the rest the first time and give you specific instructions on how to do it in the future. Sound good? --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 22:21, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

To archive:

1. Delete content that is out of date/to be archived.
2. At the top of the page (in Monobook theme, not sure about Dolphin - the current default) click "history".
3. Click on (or open a new tab) the date stamp (e.g. "15:21, September 4, 2013" without quotes for Archive #1) for #the last edit before you deleted content (that loads the page as it was before you deleted stuff).
4. Copy the URL (you could combine this with #3 if you know hot to right click copy URL from the link).
5. Edit the current talk page and add the URL as a new entry in the archives table. Just copy the line for archive #1 and fill in the URL, change the archive number, and change the archive date. Done.

--Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 16:21, 5 September 2013 (UTC)