You are encouraged to familiarise yourself with its setup and parser functions before editing the template. If your edit causes unexpected problems, please undo it quickly, as this template may appear on a large number of pages.
Remember that you can conduct experiments, and should test all improvements, in either the general Template sandbox or your user space before changing anything here.
Remember that you can conduct experiments, and should test all improvements, in either the general Template sandbox or your user space before changing anything here.
Example display
{{archive nav|55|base=Talk:Main Page/Archive}} gives:
10 – 20 – 30 – 40 – 46 – 47 – 48 – 49 – 50 – 51 – 52 – 53 – 54 – Archive 55 – 56 – 57 – 58 – 59 – 60 – 61 – 62 – 63 – 64 – 70 – 80 – 90 – 100 – 110 – 120 – 130 – 140 – 150
{{archive nav|1|base=Talk:Main Page/Archive}} gives:
Archive 01 – 02 – 03 – 04 – 05 – 06 – 07 – 08 – 09 – 10 – 20 – 30 – 40 – 50 – 60 – 70 – 80 – 90 – 100
{{archive nav|86|base=Talk:Main Page/Archive}} gives:
10 – 20 – 30 – 40 – 50 – 60 – 70 – 77 – 78 – 79 – 80 – 81 – 82 – 83 – 84 – 85 – Archive 86 – 87 – 88 – 89 – 90 – 91 – 92 – 93 – 94 – 95 – 100 – 110 – 120 – 130 – 140 – 150
Usage
- {{archive nav|N}} where N is archive number. Archive subpages must be named as "Archive 1", "Archive 2", "Archive 3", etc. for this to work.
- {{archive nav|N|base=base}} where N is archive number AND base is the base path of the archives.
See also
- {{archive-nav}}
- {{atn}}
- {{Talkarchivenav}}
Linking to archives
"Archive boxes"
"Archive boxes"
{{archives}} (simple but configurable) · {{archive box}} (legacy) · {{archive box collapsible}} · {{My talk archives}}
Navigational templates
"Header bars"
"Header bars"
{{Aan}} (automatic archive navigator, does not need parameter) · {{Atn}} (navigate through sequential pages, does not need parameter) · {{Talk archive navigation}} (combines {{Talk archive}} and {{atn}}) · {{Archive nav}} (dynamic, needs parameter) · {{Archive navigation}} (static, needs parameter, use {{Archive number}} to customize number) · {{Month-year archive nav}} (navigation to the chronological archive pages of a year)
Archive notice bars
"Headers"
"Headers"
{{Talk archive}} (basic) · {{Talkarchivehist}} (with historical links) · {{Topical talk archive}} (topical) · {{Chronological talk archive}} (time based) · {{Archiveme}} (to-do item) · {{Archiving}} ("in progress" notice)
Archive sections of page
{{AfC-c}} (articles for creation - collapse) · {{Archive top}} · {{Archive bottom}} · {{Hidden archive top}} · {{Collapse bottom}}
Automated bot based archiving
MISZABOT: User:MiszaBot/Archive HowTo · CLUEBOT: User:ClueBot III#How to archive your page · HBC Archive Indexerbot: User:HBC_Archive_Indexerbot#Instructions · {{Auto archiving notice}}
Non-talk pages
Specifically user talk pages
{{UserTalkArchive}} · {{UserTalkArchiveBox}}
See also: Category:Archival templates
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