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Halian at 20:37, 21 December 2023

2023-12-21T20:37:58Z

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	The quickest way to find information in MediaWiki is to look it up directly. On the left-hand side of your screen there is a '''Search''' box with two buttons under it labeled Go and Search.		The quickest way to find information in MediaWiki is to look it up directly. On the left-hand side of your screen there is a '''Search''' box with two buttons under it labeled Go and Search.

	div style=border:1px solid #ababff; background: #fdfdff; padding: 1em; margin: 1.1em 1em 1em 0em; font-size:105%		<div style=border:1px solid #ababff; background: #fdfdff; padding: 1em; margin: 1.1em 1em 1em 0em; font-size:105%>
	Put your keyword in the searchbox.		Put your keyword in the searchbox.
	* font face=MS Sans Serif,Arial'''Go'''/font - (or ''Enter'' on keyboard) will take you automatically to the article, if it exists.		* <font face=MS Sans Serif,Arial>'''Go'''</font> - (or ''Enter'' on keyboard) will take you automatically to the article, if it exists.
	* font face=MS Sans Serif,Arial'''Search'''/font - will search the text of all pages on the wiki (with some restrictions, see below).		* <font face=MS Sans Serif,Arial>'''Search'''</font> - will search the text of all pages on the wiki (with some restrictions, see below).
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	If you clicked 'search', or you clicked 'go' and the page you were looking for did not exist, you will be presented with a list of articles that matched your search criteria (or a message that no matches were found).		If you clicked 'search', or you clicked 'go' and the page you were looking for did not exist, you will be presented with a list of articles that matched your search criteria (or a message that no matches were found).

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	== Restricting the search ==		== Restricting the search ==
	By default only the [[Help:namespaces\|namespaces]] specified in your [[Help:preferences\|preferences]] will be searched. Logged-in users can change their preferences to specify the namespaces they want to search by default, or if you just want to specify different namespaces for a single search then you can do so on the search results page.		By default only the [[Help:namespaces\|namespaces]] specified in your [[Help:preferences\|preferences]] will be searched. Logged-in users can change their preferences to specify the namespaces they want to search by default, or if you just want to specify different namespaces for a single search then you can do so on the search results page.



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24.108.13.171 at 05:44, 22 October 2006

2006-10-22T05:44:35Z

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{{PD Help Page}}
The quickest way to find information in MediaWiki is to look it up directly. On the left-hand side of your screen there is a '''Search''' box with two buttons under it labeled Go and Search.

div style=border:1px solid #ababff; background: #fdfdff; padding: 1em; margin: 1.1em 1em 1em 0em; font-size:105%
Put your keyword in the searchbox.
* font face=MS Sans Serif,Arial'''Go'''/font - (or ''Enter'' on keyboard) will take you automatically to the article, if it exists.
* font face=MS Sans Serif,Arial'''Search'''/font - will search the text of all pages on the wiki (with some restrictions, see below).
/div

If you clicked 'search', or you clicked 'go' and the page you were looking for did not exist, you will be presented with a list of articles that matched your search criteria (or a message that no matches were found).

== How it works ==
Here's how the search works:

* Only the article content is searched - the page title is ignored.
* The article content is searched in its raw (wikitext) form - i.e. it searches the text that appears in the edit box when you click 'edit', not the rendered page. This means that content coming from an included template will not be picked up, but the target of piped links will be.
* Even if you enclose a phrase in quotes, the search looks for each word individually. e.g. if you enter world war 2 it will return pages that contain world and war and 2.
* The search is not case-sensitive, so MediaWiki, mediawiki and MEDIAWIKI all give the same result.

== Restricting the search ==
By default only the [[Help:namespaces|namespaces]] specified in your [[Help:preferences|preferences]] will be searched. Logged-in users can change their preferences to specify the namespaces they want to search by default, or if you just want to specify different namespaces for a single search then you can do so on the search results page.

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{{Languages|Help:Searching}}
[[Category:Help|Searching]]