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Are you aware that the Wikinews Importer Bot has started to get the link syntax wrong? Perhaps it was the MediaWiki 1.18 rollout. See [[Portal talk:Current events#Simple link change]]. -- [[User:John of Reading|John of Reading]] ([[User talk:John of Reading|talk]]) 06:53, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
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The target mask didn't match their current convention. Rather than using months & years, they are currently using a counter-based system (the current archive is Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Plants/Archive56). I've changed the parameters so hopefully it will work now. If not, the bot code may need to go to the top of their page. ⋙–Berean–Hunter—► 15:38, 12 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
While they are currently numbered, the pages are monthly archives. April threads should go to #57, May to #58, etc. See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Plants/Archives. So, since Miszabot can do that, I think it'd be better to do it that way. If numbering is desired, it'd be easier to move a page from '/Archive YYYY/MMM' to '/Archive##' than to update the counter parameter each month.
I would suggest that we see if it works after I've changed it. I can't remember which pages gave me similar grief when I tried to change the archiving scheme but I came to the conclusion that when there is a mismatch then the bot won't work. I could be wrong but if the bot does work with my changes then that issue may be true. We could try changing/moving after we figure out what is wrong. ⋙–Berean–Hunter—► 18:00, 12 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Yay! It worked. I'm not sure about the best way to address the month/year conversion however. Either previous archives could be moved to fit that scheme (moderate amount of work) or the project could begin to use standard indexing instead of the cherry-picked topics as they have now. I looked at their indexing which I don't believe is a good way of doing it. ⋙–Berean–Hunter—► 14:30, 15 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Miszabot III archived content from my talk page to "/dev/null." and that too within 24h with no such tag on my talk page. I had recovered content and i find it too difficult to understand why the bot did it like that. --Anirudh Emani (talk) 07:08, 21 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
You changed the bot, taking out the linebreaks ... which Miszabot relies on to find the end of the parameters. (The indexing bot doesn't care.) You've already fixed it, and I guess you've recovered all the sections that got lost?