Editing Help:Archiving a talk page (section)

=== Choosing a bot ===
[[User:ClueBot III|ClueBot III]] and [[User:lowercase sigmabot III|lowercase sigmabot III]], the two bots in current use for automated archiving, are similar in their behaviour, but have some differences in terms of features they implement and limitations on their use:
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! 
! lowercase sigmabot III
! ClueBot III
|-
! style=text-align:left; | Number of talk pages in use on
| [https://templatecount.toolforge.org/index.php?lang=en&namespace=2&name=MiszaBot%2Fconfig ~41,500]
| [https://templatecount.toolforge.org/index.php?lang=en&namespace=2&name=ClueBot+III%2FArchiveThis ~12,400]
|-
! style=text-align:left; | Index of archives?
| {{maybe|[[#Archive indexing|requires additional bot]]}}
| {{yes|[[User:ClueBot_III/Documentation#Index_generation|Yes]]}}
|-
! style=text-align:left; | Automatically repair links to discussions when archiving?
| {{no}}
| {{yes|[[User:ClueBot_III#Keeping_linked|Yes]] ([[Special:Diff/918449395|example]])}}
|-
! style=text-align:left; | Initial delay before first archive
| Less than 24 hours (typically begins runs at [[UTC+00:00|00:00 UTC]] daily)
| Up to several days ({{History2|Talk:Creation Museum|2|example|201312090940}})
|-
! style=text-align:left; | Limitations
| [[User:Lowercase_sigmabot_III/Archive_HowTo#Missing_signatures|Will not archive sections without signatures]]
| [[User:ClueBot_III/Documentation#Keeping_linked|Not suitable for pages linked to by a number of pages in the order of thousands]] (for performance reasons)
|}

The following are example configurations to set up automatic archiving of an article talk page or user talk page. These configuration templates do not produce any visible output, so you should generally also include [[#For talk pages|a template]] such as {{tlx|Archives}} to provide readers with links to search and navigate the archives. These templates may also be configured with the parameters <code>bot</code> and <code>age</code> to include a message notifying readers that automatic archiving is taking place. For example: {{tlc|Archives|age{{=}}90|bot{{=}}[[User:ClueBot III#How to archive your page|ClueBot III]]}}.