Board Thread:Wiki Running/@comment-4189499-20150514235412/@comment-4189499-20150515003412

Catinthedark wrote: I like your solution #2 -- move each poll to an archive page; start fresh poll on main page and add link to archive. I guess I'm wondering, though, why the non-difficulty polls can be preserved in solution #3 (make an archive section on same page), but not in this case.

If there are sufficient criteria for the bot to distinguish between difficullty and non-difficulty polls for solution #3, could not solution #2 also be refined, so to archive only difficulty polls, and only recreate those? Is there some technical hitch that prevents this? The problem is that any change to the polls, including moving them to a different page, resets them. We can get around it with the archiving as you're changing the page name but leaving the contents in place, but we can't move only some of the polls and not the other using that method. That's why a choice must be made between archiving everything on another page and starting over or just moving things around the page. Now, it would be really easy to archive on a separate page, because the bot would just be looking for all pages with /poll in the title to move and can then go through and put a predefined set of polls on a bunch of new pages at the /poll subpage for each level, but the moving and telling the difference between polls on a single page will take one hell of a regex statement and would probably require a manual bot run to make sure it's doing the right things. So it would be much simpler to do #2, but I can see people prefering the outcome of #3.