User:MiszaBot/Archive HowTo

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There is a new version of this page at User:lowercase sigmabot III/Archive HowTo. This page is kept for archival purposes.

All archiving tasks which used to be performed by the MiszaBots are now performed by lowercase sigmabot III without the need to change the {{User:MiszaBot/config}} configuration. The actual MiszaBots are neither functioning nor expected to become functional.

Before setting up automatic archiving on an article's talk page, please establish a consensus that archiving is really needed there.

There were three bots operated by Misza13 that performed archiving of pages for different namespaces:

• Talk: namespace - MiszaBot I (talk · contribs)
• Wikipedia:, Wikipedia talk: and Template talk: namespaces - MiszaBot II (talk · contribs)
• User talk: namespace - MiszaBot III (talk · contribs)

Please note that since November 2013, Lowercase sigmabot III (talk · contribs) has taken over all tasks for the three MiszaBots. For similar bots, see Category:Wikipedia archive bots.