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At the beginning of every month, it is customary to archive Current Events by moving the page to a month (e.g. December 2003) thereby creating an empty page with just a redirect. This has the effect of archiving the Page History with the month, and providing a fresh History every month. It also keeps the log of older versions managably small.

To archive Current Events:

  1. Move the current page to "MMMMM YYYY" (representing the proceeding month)
  2. Open the edit window of this page and copy the header text (and any events from this month)
  3. Go back to Current Events
  4. Open the edit window, remove the redirect, and paste in the header text.
  5. Create a redirect from the next month's page to Current Events (e.g., if it's now January 2004, make it's page a redirect).
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