Wikipedia:How to archive Current Events: Difference between revisions

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At the beginning of every month, it is customary to archive the [[currentCurrent events]] and [[Current sports events]] pages by moving the pagethem to a suitably named month (e.g.for example, [[DecemberJune 20032004]] or [[June 2004 in sports]]). therebyThis creatingmakes anthe emptyoriginal pages redirects, which can then be edited to record the new month's events. Moving the original pages ensures the [[Wikipedia:page history|page history]] is saved with justthe month, and provides a redirectfresh history each month. It also keeps the log of older versions manageably small.

This has the effect of archiving the [[Wikipedia:page history|page history]] with the month, and providing a fresh history each month. It also keeps the log of older versions managably small.

ToFor example, to archive [[Current Eventsevents]] or [[Current sports events]] on July 1 2004:

# Move the current page to "MMMMM[[June YYYY"2004]] (representingor the[[June proceeding2004 month)in sports]] as appropriate.

# OpenEdit the edit window of thismoved page and copy theits headerentire textcontents (andto any events from thisthe month)clipboard.

# Edit [[Current events]] or [[Current sports events]] (which is now a redirect).

# Go back to Current Events

# Open the edit window, removeRemove the redirect, and paste in the headercopied text. Remove the content for June 2004 - you just want the "template" for the month.

# Update the page to reflect the new month, in this case July. Typically this means updating the calendar, starting a new list of deaths, and adding June to the "Past events by month" section.

# Create a redirect from the next month's page to Current Events (e.g., if it is now January 2004, make [[January 2004|its page]] a redirect).

# Create a redirect from [[July 2004]] or [[July 2004 in sports]] to [[Current events]] or [[Current sports events]] as appropriate.

# Edit last month's article, [[June 2004]] or [[June 2004 in sports]], to reflect the fact that it's no longer current. This means replacing the time/date with a list of the months in the year, linking to the appropriate events/sports events articles in each case.