Forum:How to archive old forums in answers site

Hello!

I'd like to know what is it that I need to do, in order to activate the archiving feature in a wiki; (this particularly being the main answers site). Some dozens of forums messages sit dormant (some have been there for over 2 years now) waiting to be awakened by someone who might be either inexperienced or someone who just wants to revive old hostilities. Although rare that anybody would bring back old arguments in Wikianswers, but you never know. The feature wouldn't be available if it wasn't needed. --Liliana (my talk). 18:10, January 26, 2012 (UTC)


 * This is what Community Central uses for archiving:


 * Just add this to MediaWiki:Common.js on your wiki, and forums should archive after about a month of inactivity. --


 * Amazing! Thank you so much, do you have any idea what parameters need to be changed to turn that to 90 days inactivity?  Thank you so very much, I am sure I'm not the only one who needs this information!  --Liliana (my talk). 03:00, January 27, 2012 (UTC)


 * I knew I forgot about something! In order for this code to archive a page, it needs to recognize an old-forum-warning ID on a page. Community Central implements this on Template:Forumheader, which shows up the ID after thirty days of inactivity. The following is applied after the general portion of Template:Forumheader on Central:


 * For the archiving to really work, you will need to add the above to Template:Forumheader on your wiki. Also, I'm not entirely sure, but to change it to ninety days, you might need to change 2592000 to 7776000. --


 * You're amazing! It really worked, a thousand "Thanks"! --Liliana (my talk). 02:04, January 29, 2012 (UTC)