Here's a procedure for archiving a discussion page:
- Create the page which you are archiving the discussion to. Format: 'Page'Discussion'YYYYMM' e.g.
PageDiscussion200612?
- The contents should only be:
PageDiscussion? <-- link to main page at top
(body empty, for now)
To comment, visit PageDiscussion? <--bottom link to main page
Note:
- If you have management rights, you may want to turn comment rights off for the archive page.
- Creating without the archived comments will save the site-wide subscribers a large email.
- Cleanup the original page.
- Add a link to the new archived page.
- Copy and Remove ("cut") the source contents (not a copy from the rendered page) of the Discussion comments (not the header) to the archive page.
- Add-in a link to the archive page.
- Add the commments to the archive page body through 'edit'ing the page, not a comment. This may avoid a huge mailout.
- Reparent the archive page to the original discussion page.