Template:Archive
Usage
This template is used on archived talk and non-talk pages.
The template has multiple optional parameters:
|1=
(first unnamed parameter) – the name of the current talk page if it is not automatically detected properly by the template or is from a different base name. Note that|currentpage=
is an alternate name for this parameter.|period=
– adds the editorial time period the archive represents|diff=
– adds a link to the PermaLink of the original page at the archival time|histOffset=
– adds a link to the history of the page, offset with the given timestamp
Examples
With no parameters:
Example with (almost) all parameters: Talk:Generation X was manually archived to Talk:Generation X/Archive 1 before itself being moved to Talk:Generation X/Archive 2 as an archive, so the content of /Archive 1 was technically copied from /Archive 2. Placing {archive|diff=29421877|histOffset=20051127232500|Talk:Generation X/Archive 2}
at /Archive 1 gives:
See also
- {Automatic archive navigator} for a version that includes a navigation bar to earlier/later archives.
- {Archives} for including links to the talk page's archive(s) on the talk page itself.
- {Webarchive} for linking to web archiving services such as the Wayback Machine, WebCite and all other web archiving services.
- {Oldid}