User:HBC Archive Indexerbot#Instructions

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'''This bot is approved. HighInBC (Need help? Ask me) 00:48, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Introduction

I am an automated bot coded and operated by HighInBC and Krellis. I can read through piles of talk page archives and produce a handy index of topics with links. This will allow you to browse or search the entire archive for keywords or recurring discussions. Anyone can request that I service any page on the English Wikipedia, simply follow the easy instructions below!

Instructions

To use this service you need archives, a destination page, and a page for the request.

  1. First create a destination page (the one you want the index to be written to, typically ending in /Archive index) and place the following text on this page:
  2. : This will not be visible, as it is contained in HTML comment tags; this gives the bot permission to write to the page. You MUST create this page and place the tag on it, the bot WILL NOT create it for you automatically!
  3. On the root page of the archives you want indexed, usually the talk page itself, place the following code, replacing the items in <> with the appropriate values as described below: {{User:HBC Archive Indexerbot/OptIn|target=|mask=|leading_zeros=|indexhere=|template=