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vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Spaces"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.2</span> <span>Spaces</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Spaces-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Special_characters" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Special_characters"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.3</span> <span>Special characters</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Special_characters-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Double_quotes_for_exact_phrase_search" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Double_quotes_for_exact_phrase_search"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.3.1</span> <span>Double quotes for exact phrase search</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Double_quotes_for_exact_phrase_search-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Suffixed_tilde_character_for_fuzzy_search" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Suffixed_tilde_character_for_fuzzy_search"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.3.2</span> <span>Suffixed tilde character for fuzzy search</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Suffixed_tilde_character_for_fuzzy_search-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Prefixed_tilde_character_for_forced_search" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Prefixed_tilde_character_for_forced_search"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.3.3</span> <span>Prefixed tilde character for forced search</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Prefixed_tilde_character_for_forced_search-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Prefixed_hyphen_or_exclamation_point_for_exclusion" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Prefixed_hyphen_or_exclamation_point_for_exclusion"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.3.4</span> <span>Prefixed hyphen or exclamation point for exclusion</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Prefixed_hyphen_or_exclamation_point_for_exclusion-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Wildcard_characters" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Wildcard_characters"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.3.5</span> <span>Wildcard characters</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Wildcard_characters-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Non-alphabetic_characters" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Non-alphabetic_characters"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.3.6</span> <span>Non-alphabetic characters</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Non-alphabetic_characters-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Logical_operators" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Logical_operators"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.3.7</span> <span>Logical operators</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Logical_operators-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Parameters" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Parameters"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.4</span> <span>Parameters</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Parameters-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-namespace:" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#namespace:"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.4.1</span> <span>namespace:</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-namespace:-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-all:" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#all:"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.4.2</span> <span>all:</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-all:-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-intitle:" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#intitle:"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.4.3</span> <span>intitle:</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-intitle:-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-insource:" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#insource:"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.4.4</span> <span>insource:</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-insource:-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-incategory:" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#incategory:"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.4.5</span> <span>incategory:</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-incategory:-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-deepcategory:" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#deepcategory:"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.4.6</span> <span>deepcategory:</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-deepcategory:-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-prefix:" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#prefix:"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.4.7</span> <span>prefix:</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-prefix:-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-linksto:" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#linksto:"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.4.8</span> <span>linksto:</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-linksto:-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-subpageof:" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#subpageof:"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.4.9</span> <span>subpageof:</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-subpageof:-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-hastemplate:" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#hastemplate:"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.4.10</span> <span>hastemplate:</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-hastemplate:-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-articletopic:" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#articletopic:"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.4.11</span> <span>articletopic:</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-articletopic:-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Search_page" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Search_page"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Search page</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Search_page-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Search_results_page" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Search_results_page"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Search results page</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Search_results_page-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Search results page subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Search_results_page-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Understanding_search_results" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Understanding_search_results"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1</span> <span>Understanding search results</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Understanding_search_results-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Preliminary_reports" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Preliminary_reports"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1.1</span> <span>Preliminary reports</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Preliminary_reports-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Refining_results" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Refining_results"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.2</span> <span>Refining results</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Refining_results-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Namespaces_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Namespaces_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.2.1</span> <span>Namespaces</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Namespaces_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Sorting" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sorting"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.2.2</span> <span>Sorting</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sorting-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Search_settings" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Search_settings"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Search settings</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Search_settings-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Tips_and_tricks" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Tips_and_tricks"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>Tips and tricks</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Tips_and_tricks-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Tips and tricks subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Tips_and_tricks-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Searching_within_a_page" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Searching_within_a_page"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.1</span> <span>Searching within a page</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Searching_within_a_page-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Searching_for_a_specific_person's_contributions" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Searching_for_a_specific_person's_contributions"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.2</span> <span>Searching for a specific person's contributions</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Searching_for_a_specific_person's_contributions-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Search_Wikipedia_from_any_web_page" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Search_Wikipedia_from_any_web_page"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.3</span> <span>Search Wikipedia from any web page</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Search_Wikipedia_from_any_web_page-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-SQL_searches_/_Quarry" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#SQL_searches_/_Quarry"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.4</span> <span>SQL searches / Quarry</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-SQL_searches_/_Quarry-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Other_search_tools" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Other_search_tools"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>Other search tools</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Other_search_tools-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-If_you_cannot_find_what_you_are_looking_for" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#If_you_cannot_find_what_you_are_looking_for"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>If you cannot find what you are looking for</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-If_you_cannot_find_what_you_are_looking_for-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle If you cannot find what you are looking for subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-If_you_cannot_find_what_you_are_looking_for-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Delay_in_updating_the_search_index" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Delay_in_updating_the_search_index"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9.1</span> <span>Delay in updating the search index</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Delay_in_updating_the_search_index-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Under_the_hood" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Under_the_hood"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>Under the hood</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Under_the_hood-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Under the hood subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Under_the_hood-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Stem_matching" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Stem_matching"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10.1</span> <span>Stem matching</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Stem_matching-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Custom_search_boxes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Custom_search_boxes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11</span> <span>Custom search boxes</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Custom_search_boxes-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Custom search boxes subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Custom_search_boxes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Content_namespaces" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Content_namespaces"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11.1</span> <span>Content namespaces</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Content_namespaces-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Administrative_namespaces" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Administrative_namespaces"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11.2</span> <span>Administrative namespaces</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Administrative_namespaces-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">12</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">13</span> <span>Notes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Toggle the table of contents" > <label id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-label" for="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only " aria-hidden="true" ><span class="vector-icon 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href="https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilfe:Suche" title="Hilfe:Suche – Alemannic" lang="gsw" hreflang="gsw" data-title="Hilfe:Suche" data-language-autonym="Alemannisch" data-language-local-name="Alemannic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Alemannisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-am mw-list-item"><a href="https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%8B%8D%E1%8A%AD%E1%8D%94%E1%8B%B2%E1%8B%AB:Searching" title="ውክፔዲያ:Searching – Amharic" lang="am" hreflang="am" data-title="ውክፔዲያ:Searching" data-language-autonym="አማርኛ" data-language-local-name="Amharic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>አማርኛ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%AF%D8%A9:%D8%A8%D8%AD%D8%AB" title="مساعدة:بحث – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="مساعدة:بحث" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A4%D9%85%DA%A9:%D8%A2%D8%AE%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%B4" title="کؤمک:آختاریش – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="کؤمک:آختاریش" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AF%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF:%E0%A6%85%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A7%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8" title="সাহায্য:অনুসন্ধান – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="সাহায্য:অনুসন্ধান" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pang-ch%C4%81n:Chhiau-chho%C4%93" title="Pang-chān:Chhiau-chhoē – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Pang-chān:Chhiau-chhoē" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-map-bms mw-list-item"><a href="https://map-bms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Nggolet" title="Wikipedia:Nggolet – Banyumasan" lang="jv-x-bms" hreflang="jv-x-bms" data-title="Wikipedia:Nggolet" data-language-autonym="Basa Banyumasan" data-language-local-name="Banyumasan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Basa Banyumasan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ba mw-list-item"><a href="https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F:%D0%AD%D2%99%D0%BB%D3%99%D2%AF" title="Википедия:Эҙләү – Bashkir" lang="ba" hreflang="ba" data-title="Википедия:Эҙләү" data-language-autonym="Башҡортса" data-language-local-name="Bashkir" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Башҡортса</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bh mw-list-item"><a href="https://bh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%A6:%E0%A4%96%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%B2" title="मदद:खोजल – Bhojpuri" lang="bh" hreflang="bh" data-title="मदद:खोजल" data-language-autonym="भोजपुरी" data-language-local-name="Bhojpuri" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>भोजपुरी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F:%D0%A2%D1%8A%D1%80%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5" title="Уикипедия:Търсене – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Уикипедия:Търсене" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomo%C4%87:Pretraga" title="Pomoć:Pretraga – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Pomoć:Pretraga" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skoazell:Klask_gant_al_lusker_enklask" title="Skoazell:Klask gant al lusker enklask – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Skoazell:Klask gant al lusker enklask" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajuda:Com_buscar_p%C3%A0gines" title="Ajuda:Com buscar pàgines – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Ajuda:Com buscar pàgines" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8:%D0%A8%D1%8B%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8" title="Википеди:Шырани – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" data-title="Википеди:Шырани" data-language-autonym="Чӑвашла" data-language-local-name="Chuvash" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Чӑвашла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A1pov%C4%9Bda:Hled%C3%A1n%C3%AD" title="Nápověda:Hledání – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Nápověda:Hledání" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicipedia:Chwilio_am_erthygl" title="Wicipedia:Chwilio am erthygl – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Wicipedia:Chwilio am erthygl" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hj%C3%A6lp:S%C3%B8gning" title="Hjælp:Søgning – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Hjælp:Søgning" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilfe:Suche" title="Hilfe:Suche – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Hilfe:Suche" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikipeedia:Otsimine" title="Vikipeedia:Otsimine – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Vikipeedia:Otsimine" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%92%CE%BF%CE%AE%CE%B8%CE%B5%CE%B9%CE%B1:%CE%91%CE%BD%CE%B1%CE%B6%CE%AE%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%83%CE%B7" title="Βοήθεια:Αναζήτηση – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Βοήθεια:Αναζήτηση" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayuda:B%C3%BAsqueda" title="Ayuda:Búsqueda – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Ayuda:Búsqueda" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helpo:Ser%C4%89ado" title="Helpo:Serĉado – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Helpo:Serĉado" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laguntza:Bilaketa" title="Laguntza:Bilaketa – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Laguntza:Bilaketa" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%A9%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D9%BE%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%A7:%D8%AC%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%AC%D9%88" title="ویکی‌پدیا:جستجو – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="ویکی‌پدیا:جستجو" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aide:Recherche" title="Aide:Recherche – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Aide:Recherche" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedy:Sykje" title="Wikipedy:Sykje – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Wikipedy:Sykje" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axuda:Procurar" title="Axuda:Procurar – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Axuda:Procurar" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8F%84%EC%9B%80%EB%A7%90:%EC%B0%BE%EA%B8%B0" title="도움말:찾기 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="도움말:찾기" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8E%D5%AB%D6%84%D5%AB%D5%BA%D5%A5%D5%A4%D5%AB%D5%A1:%D5%88%D6%80%D5%B8%D5%B6%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%B4" title="Վիքիպեդիա:Որոնում – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Վիքիպեդիա:Որոնում" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE:%E0%A4%96%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE" title="विकिपीडिया:खोजना – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="विकिपीडिया:खोजना" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hsb mw-list-item"><a href="https://hsb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedija:Pytanje_we_Wikipediji" title="Wikipedija:Pytanje we Wikipediji – Upper Sorbian" lang="hsb" hreflang="hsb" data-title="Wikipedija:Pytanje we Wikipediji" data-language-autonym="Hornjoserbsce" data-language-local-name="Upper Sorbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hornjoserbsce</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomo%C4%87:Tra%C5%BEilica" title="Pomoć:Tražilica – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Pomoć:Tražilica" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantuan:Pencarian" title="Bantuan:Pencarian – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Bantuan:Pencarian" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Recerca" title="Wikipedia:Recerca – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="Wikipedia:Recerca" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingua</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-os mw-list-item"><a href="https://os.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8:%D0%90%D0%B3%D1%83%D1%8B%D1%80%D0%B4" title="Википеди:Агуырд – Ossetic" lang="os" hreflang="os" data-title="Википеди:Агуырд" data-language-autonym="Ирон" data-language-local-name="Ossetic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ирон</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hj%C3%A1lp:Leit" title="Hjálp:Leit – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Hjálp:Leit" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aiuto:Ricerca" title="Aiuto:Ricerca – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Aiuto:Ricerca" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A2%D7%96%D7%A8%D7%94:%D7%97%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%A9_%D7%91%D7%95%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%93%D7%99%D7%94" title="עזרה:חיפוש בוויקיפדיה – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="עזרה:חיפוש בוויקיפדיה" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jv mw-list-item"><a href="https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Panggol%C3%A8kan" title="Wikipédia:Panggolèkan – Javanese" lang="jv" hreflang="jv" data-title="Wikipédia:Panggolèkan" data-language-autonym="Jawa" data-language-local-name="Javanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Jawa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%95%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AA%E0%B3%80%E0%B2%A1%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AF:Searching" title="ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ:Searching – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ:Searching" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ಕನ್ನಡ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pam mw-list-item"><a href="https://pam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Searching" title="Wikipedia:Searching – Pampanga" lang="pam" hreflang="pam" data-title="Wikipedia:Searching" data-language-autonym="Kapampangan" data-language-local-name="Pampanga" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kapampangan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-krc mw-list-item"><a href="https://krc.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F:%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8C%D1%8F_%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%83" title="Википедия:Статья излеу – Karachay-Balkar" lang="krc" hreflang="krc" data-title="Википедия:Статья излеу" data-language-autonym="Къарачай-малкъар" data-language-local-name="Karachay-Balkar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Къарачай-малкъар</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%95%E1%83%98%E1%83%99%E1%83%98%E1%83%9E%E1%83%94%E1%83%93%E1%83%98%E1%83%90:%E1%83%AB%E1%83%98%E1%83%94%E1%83%91%E1%83%90" title="ვიკიპედია:ძიება – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ვიკიპედია:ძიება" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F:%D0%86%D0%B7%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%83" title="Уикипедия:Іздеу – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Уикипедия:Іздеу" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%BA%A7%E0%BA%B4%E0%BA%81%E0%BA%B4%E0%BA%9E%E0%BA%B5%E0%BB%80%E0%BA%94%E0%BA%8D:%E0%BA%8A%E0%BA%AD%E0%BA%81%E0%BA%AB%E0%BA%B2" title="ວິກິພີເດຍ:ຊອກຫາ – Lao" lang="lo" hreflang="lo" data-title="ວິກິພີເດຍ:ຊອກຫາ" data-language-autonym="ລາວ" data-language-local-name="Lao" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ລາວ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxilium:De_quaesitu" title="Auxilium:De quaesitu – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Auxilium:De quaesitu" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pal%C4%ABdz%C4%ABba:Mekl%C4%93%C5%A1ana" title="Palīdzība:Meklēšana – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Palīdzība:Meklēšana" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%ABllef:Sichen" title="Hëllef:Sichen – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Hëllef:Sichen" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lëtzebuergesch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagalba:Paie%C5%A1ka" title="Pagalba:Paieška – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Pagalba:Paieška" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Keres%C3%A9s" title="Wikipédia:Keresés – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Wikipédia:Keresés" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0:%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%9A%D0%B5" title="Википедија:Пребарување – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Википедија:Пребарување" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%80%E0%B4%A1%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AF:%E0%B4%85%E0%B4%A8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B5%E0%B5%87%E0%B4%B7%E0%B4%A3%E0%B4%82" title="വിക്കിപീഡിയ:അന്വേഷണം – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="വിക്കിപീഡിയ:അന്വേഷണം" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mt mw-list-item"><a href="https://mt.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C4%A7ajnuna:Esplora_lill-Wikipedija" title="Għajnuna:Esplora lill-Wikipedija – Maltese" lang="mt" hreflang="mt" data-title="Għajnuna:Esplora lill-Wikipedija" data-language-autonym="Malti" data-language-local-name="Maltese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mi mw-list-item"><a href="https://mi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tikanga_rapu" title="Wikipedia:Tikanga rapu – Māori" lang="mi" hreflang="mi" data-title="Wikipedia:Tikanga rapu" data-language-autonym="Māori" data-language-local-name="Māori" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Māori</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE:%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%A7" title="विकिपीडिया:शोध – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="विकिपीडिया:शोध" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7:%D8%AA%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B1" title="ويكيبيديا:تدوير – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="ويكيبيديا:تدوير" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantuan:Mencari" title="Bantuan:Mencari – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Bantuan:Mencari" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Zoeken" title="Help:Zoeken – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Help:Zoeken" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-new mw-list-item"><a href="https://new.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE:%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE" title="विकिपिडिया:मालेज्या – Newari" lang="new" hreflang="new" data-title="विकिपिडिया:मालेज्या" data-language-autonym="नेपाल भाषा" data-language-local-name="Newari" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>नेपाल भाषा</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:%E6%A4%9C%E7%B4%A2" title="Help:検索 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="Help:検索" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ce mw-list-item"><a href="https://ce.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8:%D0%9B%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%B0%D1%80" title="Википеди:Лахар – Chechen" lang="ce" hreflang="ce" data-title="Википеди:Лахар" data-language-autonym="Нохчийн" data-language-local-name="Chechen" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Нохчийн</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hjelp:S%C3%B8king" title="Hjelp:Søking – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Hjelp:Søking" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hjelp:S%C3%B8king" title="Hjelp:Søking – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Hjelp:Søking" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajuda:Rec%C3%A8rca" title="Ajuda:Recèrca – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Ajuda:Recèrca" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikipediya:Qidiruv" title="Vikipediya:Qidiruv – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Vikipediya:Qidiruv" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ps mw-list-item"><a href="https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B1%DA%9A%D9%88%D8%AF:%D9%88%D9%8A%DA%A9%D9%8A%D9%BE%DB%90%DA%89%D9%8A%D8%A7_%DA%A9%DB%90_%D9%BE%D9%84%D9%BC%D9%86%D9%87" title="لارښود:ويکيپېډيا کې پلټنه – Pashto" lang="ps" hreflang="ps" data-title="لارښود:ويکيپېډيا کې پلټنه" data-language-autonym="پښتو" data-language-local-name="Pashto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پښتو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomoc:Wyszukiwarka" title="Pomoc:Wyszukiwarka – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Pomoc:Wyszukiwarka" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajuda:Guia_de_consulta_e_reprodu%C3%A7%C3%A3o/Busca" title="Ajuda:Guia de consulta e reprodução/Busca – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Ajuda:Guia de consulta e reprodução/Busca" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajutor:C%C4%83utare" title="Ajutor:Căutare – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Ajutor:Căutare" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-rue mw-list-item"><a href="https://rue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BC%D1%96%D1%87:%D0%93%D0%BB%D1%8F%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%8F" title="Поміч:Гляданя – Rusyn" lang="rue" hreflang="rue" data-title="Поміч:Гляданя" data-language-autonym="Русиньскый" data-language-local-name="Rusyn" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русиньскый</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F:%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BA" title="Википедия:Поиск – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Википедия:Поиск" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sah mw-list-item"><a href="https://sah.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%8D%D0%B4%D1%8C%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%8D:%D0%9A%D3%A9%D1%80%D0%B4%D3%A9%D3%A9%D2%BB%D2%AF%D0%BD" title="Бикипиэдьийэ:Көрдөөһүн – Yakut" lang="sah" hreflang="sah" data-title="Бикипиэдьийэ:Көрдөөһүн" data-language-autonym="Саха тыла" data-language-local-name="Yakut" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Саха тыла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Rakin" title="Wikipedia:Rakin – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="Wikipedia:Rakin" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Scots</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-scn mw-list-item"><a href="https://scn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ricerca" title="Wikipedia:Ricerca – Sicilian" lang="scn" hreflang="scn" data-title="Wikipedia:Ricerca" data-language-autonym="Sicilianu" data-language-local-name="Sicilian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sicilianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-si mw-list-item"><a href="https://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B6%8B%E0%B6%AF%E0%B7%80%E0%B7%94:%E0%B6%9C%E0%B7%80%E0%B7%9A%E0%B7%82%E0%B6%AB%E0%B6%BA" title="උදවු:ගවේෂණය – Sinhala" lang="si" hreflang="si" data-title="උදවු:ගවේෂණය" data-language-autonym="සිංහල" data-language-local-name="Sinhala" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>සිංහල</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Searching" title="Help:Searching – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Help:Searching" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sd mw-list-item"><a href="https://sd.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%AF%D8%AF:%D9%88%DA%AA%D9%8A%D9%BE%D9%8A%DA%8A%D9%8A%D8%A7_%DB%BE_%DA%B3%D9%88%D9%84%D9%87%D8%A7" title="مدد:وڪيپيڊيا ۾ ڳولها – Sindhi" lang="sd" hreflang="sd" data-title="مدد:وڪيپيڊيا ۾ ڳولها" data-language-autonym="سنڌي" data-language-local-name="Sindhi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>سنڌي</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomoc:Vyh%C4%BEad%C3%A1vanie" title="Pomoc:Vyhľadávanie – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Pomoc:Vyhľadávanie" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomo%C4%8D:Iskanje" title="Pomoč:Iskanje – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Pomoč:Iskanje" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%85%DB%95%D8%AA%DB%8C:%DA%AF%DB%95%DA%95%D8%A7%D9%86" title="یارمەتی:گەڕان – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" hreflang="ckb" data-title="یارمەتی:گەڕان" data-language-autonym="کوردی" data-language-local-name="Central Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>کوردی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedija:Pretraga" title="Wikipedija:Pretraga – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Wikipedija:Pretraga" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-su mw-list-item"><a href="https://su.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ngalanglang" title="Wikipedia:Ngalanglang – Sundanese" lang="su" hreflang="su" data-title="Wikipedia:Ngalanglang" data-language-autonym="Sunda" data-language-local-name="Sundanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sunda</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohje:Haku" title="Ohje:Haku – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Ohje:Haku" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:S%C3%B6kning" title="Wikipedia:Sökning – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Wikipedia:Sökning" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tl mw-list-item"><a href="https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulong:Paghahanap" title="Tulong:Paghahanap – Tagalog" lang="tl" hreflang="tl" data-title="Tulong:Paghahanap" data-language-autonym="Tagalog" data-language-local-name="Tagalog" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tagalog</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%80%E0%AE%9F%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%BE:%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%87%E0%AE%9F%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%8D" title="விக்கிப்பீடியா:தேடுதல் – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="விக்கிப்பீடியா:தேடுதல்" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>தமிழ்</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tt mw-list-item"><a href="https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F:%D0%AD%D0%B7%D0%BB%D3%99%D2%AF" title="Википедия:Эзләү – Tatar" lang="tt" hreflang="tt" data-title="Википедия:Эзләү" data-language-autonym="Татарча / tatarça" data-language-local-name="Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Татарча / tatarça</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-te mw-list-item"><a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%B9%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%82:%E0%B0%B5%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%9F" title="సహాయం:వెతుకుట – Telugu" lang="te" hreflang="te" data-title="సహాయం:వెతుకుట" data-language-autonym="తెలుగు" data-language-local-name="Telugu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>తెలుగు</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%98%E0%B8%B5%E0%B9%83%E0%B8%8A%E0%B9%89:%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%84%E0%B9%89%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%AB%E0%B8%B2" title="วิธีใช้:การค้นหา – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="วิธีใช้:การค้นหา" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ไทย</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tg mw-list-item"><a href="https://tg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%B0:%D2%B6%D1%83%D1%81%D1%82%D1%83%D2%B7%D3%AF" 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For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:LOOKING" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:LOOKING">WP:LOOKING</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:LOOKSGOOD" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:LOOKSGOOD">WP:LOOKSGOOD</a>.</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch" class="extiw" title="mw:Help:CirrusSearch">mw:Help:CirrusSearch</a></div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238436933">.mw-parser-output .ombox{margin:4px 0;border-collapse:collapse;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;background-color:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa);box-sizing:border-box;color:var(--color-base,#202122)}.mw-parser-output .ombox.mbox-small{font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ombox-speedy{border:2px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ombox-delete{border:2px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ombox-content{border:1px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ombox-style{border:1px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ombox-move{border:1px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ombox-protection{border:2px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ombox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.9em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ombox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ombox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ombox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ombox .mbox-invalid-type{text-align:center}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ombox{margin:4px 10%}.mw-parser-output .ombox.mbox-small{clear:right;float:right;margin:4px 0 4px 1em;width:238px}}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output table.ombox img{max-width:none!important}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .ombox-speedy{background-color:#310402}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .ombox-speedy{background-color:#310402}}</style><table class="plainlinks ombox ombox-notice" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Twemoji_1f527.svg/30px-Twemoji_1f527.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Twemoji_1f527.svg/45px-Twemoji_1f527.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Twemoji_1f527.svg/60px-Twemoji_1f527.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512"/></span></span></td><td class="mbox-text"><div style="padding-top: 6px; padding-bottom: 5px;"><b>This help page is a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Project_namespace#Wikipedia_how-to_and_information_pages" title="Wikipedia:Project namespace">how-to guide</a>.</b><br/><div style="font-size: 90%;">It explains concepts or processes used by the Wikipedia community. It is not one of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines" title="Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines">Wikipedia's policies or guidelines</a>, and may reflect varying levels of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Consensus" title="Wikipedia:Consensus">consensus</a>.</div></div></td><td class="mbox-imageright"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1252059228">.mw-parser-output .module-shortcutboxplain{float:right;margin:0 0 0 1em;border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);background-color:var(--background-color-base,#fff);padding:0.3em 0.6em 0.2em 0.6em;text-align:center;font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .module-shortcutboxleft{float:left;margin:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .module-shortcutlist{display:inline-block;border-bottom:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);margin-bottom:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .module-shortcutboxplain ul{font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .module-shortcutanchordiv{position:relative;top:-3em}.mw-parser-output li .module-shortcutanchordiv{float:right}.mw-parser-output .mbox-imageright .module-shortcutboxplain{padding:0.4em 1em 0.4em 1em;line-height:1.3;margin:0}</style><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="H:S"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=H:S&redirect=no">H:S</a></span></li></ul></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Magnifying_glass_01.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Magnifying_glass_01.svg/100px-Magnifying_glass_01.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="99" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Magnifying_glass_01.svg/150px-Magnifying_glass_01.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Magnifying_glass_01.svg/200px-Magnifying_glass_01.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="663" data-file-height="659"/></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> <p>Wikipedia uses a <a href="#Under_the_hood">powerful search engine</a>, with a <i><a href="#Search_box">search box</a></i> on every page. The search box will navigate directly to a given <i>page name</i> upon an exact match. But, you can <a href="#Prefixed_tilde_character_for_forced_search">force</a> it to show you other pages that include your <a href="#Search_string">search string</a> by including a tilde character <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239335663">.mw-parser-output .mw-tmpl-kbd{background:#EEE;color:var(--color-base)}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .mw-tmpl-kbd{background:#171a1d}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .mw-tmpl-kbd{background:#171a1d}}</style><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">~</kbd> anywhere in the query. The maximum search string is 300 characters long.<sup id="cite_ref-Phabricator_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Phabricator-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, search can instantly search all 61,894,728 pages on the wiki when the search is kept to a simple word or two. </p><p>Wikipedia's searches can be made domain-specific (i.e., search in desired namespaces). The search engine also supports <a href="#Special_characters">special characters</a> and <a href="#Parameters">parameters</a> to extend the power of searches and allow users to make their <a href="#Search_string">search strings</a> more specific. </p><p>Advanced features of the Wikipedia search engine include multi-word proximity-searches (in which the user indicates how close the words in a phrase might be), wildcard searches, "fuzzy" <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">~</kbd> searches (handles typo-correction and questionable spelling), and several wiki-oriented operators and parameters for weighting and filtering. Search can also handle <a href="/wiki/Help:Searching/Regex" title="Help:Searching/Regex">regular expressions</a>, a sophisticated exact-string and string-pattern search tool that is not offered by most public search engines. </p><p>Search can also filter results by template names used, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CATEGORY" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CATEGORY">category</a> membership, or pages linking to a specific page. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences" title="Special:Preferences">Special:Preferences</a> offers several search options, and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Tools#Searching" title="Wikipedia:Tools">Wikipedia:Tools § Searching</a> offers the setups of other users. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc"/> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Search_box" data-mw-thread-id="h-Search_box"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Search_box"></span>Search box<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Search_box"></span></h2></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Search_box_vector.PNG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Search_box_vector.PNG/220px-Search_box_vector.PNG" decoding="async" width="220" height="19" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Search_box_vector.PNG 1.5x" data-file-width="320" data-file-height="28"/></a><figcaption>Vector (2010) legacy skin, search box.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Search_box_monobook.PNG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f6/Search_box_monobook.PNG" decoding="async" width="150" height="75" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="150" data-file-height="75"/></a><figcaption>Monobook places this search-box in the left toolbar.</figcaption></figure> <p>The search box is an input box with the term "Search Wikipedia" in it. In <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Vector" title="Wikipedia:Vector">Wikipedia's default Vector skin</a>, it is located in the top right corner of the screen. In the former default skin <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:MonoBook" class="extiw" title="mw:Skin:MonoBook">Monobook</a>, it is in the middle of the sidebar on the left of the screen. </p><p>To use the search box, click in it, or jump to it, and type in your <a href="#Search_string">search string</a>. To jump to the search box, "<b>f</b>ocus" your cursor to there by pressing <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1249182868">.mw-parser-output .keyboard-key{border:1px solid #aaa;border-radius:0.2em;box-shadow:0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1);background-color:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa);background-image:linear-gradient(to bottom,var(--background-color-neutral,#eaecf0),var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa),var(--background-color-neutral,#eaecf0));color:var(--color-base,#202122);padding:0.1em 0.3em;font-family:inherit;font-size:0.85em}</style><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">⇧ Shift</kbd>+<kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">Alt</kbd>+<kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">F</kbd>. </p><p>In Vector, instead of a search button, there is an icon of a magnifying glass on the right-hand end of the search box. Pressing <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868"><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">↵ Enter</kbd> or clicking on the magnifying glass when the box is empty takes you directly to Wikipedia's <a href="#Search_page">search page</a>. </p><p>If your search matches a page name the search box may <em>navigate</em> instead of search. To get <em>search results</em> instead, prepend the tilde <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">~</kbd> character to the first word of the title. (Or choose "<span style="color:grey;">Search for pages containing</span>" from the suggestions that drop down as you type.) </p><p><a href="/wiki/JavaScript" title="JavaScript">JavaScript</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Skin" title="Wikipedia:Skin">skins</a> have an effect on the search/navigate default behavior. Monobook's default is to navigate, and Vector's default is search; however, when JavaScript is on, the Vector skin will navigate. Monobook's <kbd class="nowrap button" title="This is not a clickable button; it illustrates the button one should find." style="padding:.2em .6em; border:1px solid; border-color:var(--border-color-base, #a2a9b1) var(--border-color-interactive, #72777d) var(--border-color-interactive, #72777d) var(--border-color-base, #a2a9b1); border-radius:3px; background-color: #F2F2F2; color: inherit; background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, var(--background-color-interactive-subtle, #f8f9fa), var(--background-color-interactive, #eaecf0)); font-family:sans-serif;">Go</kbd> will navigate, and is the default, but Monobook has a <kbd class="nowrap button" title="This is not a clickable button; it illustrates the button one should find." style="padding:.2em .6em; border:1px solid; border-color:var(--border-color-base, #a2a9b1) var(--border-color-interactive, #72777d) var(--border-color-interactive, #72777d) var(--border-color-base, #a2a9b1); border-radius:3px; background-color: #F2F2F2; color: inherit; background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, var(--background-color-interactive-subtle, #f8f9fa), var(--background-color-interactive, #eaecf0)); font-family:sans-serif;">Search</kbd> button. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Search_string" data-mw-thread-id="h-Search_string"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Search_string"></span>Search string<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Search_string"></span></h2></div> <p><span class="anchor" id="search_query"></span> </p><p>Whatever you type into the <a href="/wiki/Search_box" title="Search box">search box</a> is called the "search string". It may also be referred to as the "search query". </p><p>A basic search string is simply the topic you are interested in reading about. A direct match of a basic search string will navigate you directly to Wikipedia's article that has that title. A non-match, or any other type of search string will take you to Wikipedia's search results page, where the results of your search are displayed. </p><p>Terms in the search string are subject to <a href="#Stem_matching">stem matching</a>, except for anything included between double quotation marks. </p><p>You can include in your search string <a href="#Special_characters">special characters</a> and <a href="#Parameters">parameters</a> that activate specific search capabilities. Using any of these will take you to Wikipedia's search results page with the results of your search displayed. </p><p>The maximum search string is 300 characters long.<sup id="cite_ref-Phabricator_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Phabricator-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The format of the text that is entered is called <a href="#Search_string_syntax">search string syntax</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Search_string_syntax" data-mw-thread-id="h-Search_string_syntax"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Search_string_syntax"></span>Search string syntax<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Search_string_syntax"></span></h2></div> <p>Search is case insensitive, that is, upper and lowercase is ignored. </p><p>Search "folds" character families, matching similar-looking letters across alphabets, to match foreign terms. So, you don't have to type in <a href="/wiki/Diacritical" class="mw-redirect" title="Diacritical">diacritical</a> letters, and your terms will still match. For example, a search on <a href="/wiki/Citroen" class="mw-redirect" title="Citroen"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">Citroen</kbd></a> will also match <a href="/wiki/Citro%C3%ABn" title="Citroën"><samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">Citroën</samp></a>, and <a href="/wiki/Aeroskobing" class="mw-redirect" title="Aeroskobing"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">Aeroskobing</kbd></a> matches <a href="/wiki/%C3%86r%C3%B8sk%C3%B8bing" title="Ærøskøbing"><samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">Ærøskøbing</samp></a>. </p><p>Characters that are not numbers or letters (punctuation marks, brackets and slashes, math and other symbols) are generally ignored. For example, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">Credit (finance)</kbd> will return articles with the words <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">credit</samp> and <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">finance</samp>, ignoring the parentheses, unless an article with exact title <a href="/wiki/Credit_(finance)" class="mw-redirect" title="Credit (finance)"><code>Credit (finance)</code></a> exists. Similarly, a search for the string <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">|LT|</kbd> (letters <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">LT</kbd> between two pipe symbols) will only return articles with <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">lt</samp>. In order to search for terms that contain non-alphanumeric characters, a <a href="#insource:">regex search</a> must be used instead (using the <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">\</kbd> <a href="/wiki/Escape_character" title="Escape character">escape character</a> if required); for example, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">insource:/\|LT\|/</kbd> will successfully return all instances of <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">|LT|</samp>. </p><p>The source text is what is searched, which is not always what is displayed on the screen. This distinction is relevant for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Piped_link" title="Wikipedia:Piped link">piped links</a>, for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Interlanguage_link" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Interlanguage link">interlanguage links</a> (to find links to Chinese articles, search for <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">zh</kbd>, not for <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">Zhongwen</kbd>), <a href="/wiki/Help:Special_characters" title="Help:Special characters">special characters</a> (if <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">ê</samp> is coded as <code>&ecirc;</code> it is found searching for <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">ecirc</kbd>), etc. </p><p><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1033199720">.mw-parser-output div.crossreference{padding-left:0}</style><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><span role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable crossreference selfref">For <a href="/wiki/Regex" class="mw-redirect" title="Regex">regex</a> searches, see the <a href="#insource:"><code>insource:</code></a> parameter below.</span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Namespaces" data-mw-thread-id="h-Namespaces-Search_string_syntax"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Namespaces-Search_string_syntax"></span>Namespaces<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Namespaces-Search_string_syntax"></span></h3></div> <p><span class="anchor" id="Namespace"></span> The default search domain is the article space, but any namespace may be specified in a query. </p><p>At the search results page, any number of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NAMESPACE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NAMESPACE">namespaces</a> can be specified, and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Users" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Users">users</a> can keep those namespaces as their own default search domain. Partial namespace searches can be made by specifying the initial letters of a page name. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Spaces" data-mw-thread-id="h-Spaces-Search_string_syntax"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Spaces-Search_string_syntax"></span>Spaces<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Spaces-Search_string_syntax"></span></h3></div> <p>The use of spaces is, in general, intuitive. Unnecessary spaces, and all non-alphanumeric characters except <code>"</code> are ignored, which makes for flexibility; it is simplest and best to avoid typing unnecessary spaces, although the tolerance for grey space simplifies copying and pasting search terms without the need for cleanup. For example, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">credit card</kbd> is obviously reasonable; copying and pasting <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">[[Credit(?!)card]]</kbd> is equivalent and convenient; <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">"credit card""payment card"</kbd> is actually correct and minimal, but <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">"credit card" "payment card"</kbd> is an intuitive equivalent. </p><p>Any of the following characters will be treated as a <a href="/wiki/Space_character" class="mw-redirect" title="Space character">space character</a>: <code>!@#$%^&()_+-=~`{}[]|\:;'<>,.?/</code>. The double quotation mark <code>"</code> is not one of these characters, because it has the special purpose of specifying an exact phrase search, and <code>-</code> and <code>!</code> can be used to exclude results if either occurs at the beginning of a word or phrase (see more below). We use the term <i>grey-space</i> instead of <i><a href="/wiki/Whitespace_character" title="Whitespace character">whitespace</a></i> here to include the space character itself and all these characters. Multiple [grey-]spaces are equivalent to a single space. </p><p>Grey-space is ignored between the words of exact-phrase searches, between adjacent items in the query, and in starting characters of the search box query. All filters can have grey-space between them without affecting search results. Most operators, such as <code>intitle:</code> and <code>incategory:</code>, ignore unnecessary spaces, or grey-space, after the colon. </p><p>Where spaces are significant: single search terms cannot have embedded spaces; <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">work space</kbd>, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">"work space"</kbd>, and <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">workspace</kbd> are all different. The particular keywords <code>prefix</code> and <code>insource</code> must be followed immediately by a colon <code>:</code> and their arguments, without intervening [grey-]spaces. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Special_characters" data-mw-thread-id="h-Special_characters-Search_string_syntax"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Special_characters-Search_string_syntax"></span>Special characters<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Special_characters-Search_string_syntax"></span></h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="H:SPCHAR"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=H:SPCHAR&redirect=no">H:SPCHAR</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>For <a href="/wiki/Regex" class="mw-redirect" title="Regex">regex</a> searches, see the <a href="#insource:"><code>insource:</code></a> parameter below. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Double_quotes_for_exact_phrase_search" data-mw-thread-id="h-Double_quotes_for_exact_phrase_search-Special_characters"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Double_quotes_for_exact_phrase_search-Special_characters"></span>Double quotes for exact phrase search<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Double_quotes_for_exact_phrase_search-Special_characters"></span></h4></div> <p><span class="anchor" id="double_quotes"></span> </p><p>A <a href="/wiki/Phrase" title="Phrase">phrase</a> can be matched by enclosing it in double quotes, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">"like this"</kbd>. Double quotes can define a single search term that contains spaces. For example, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;"><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=%22holly+dolly%22&ns0=1&fulltext=Search">"holly dolly"</a></span></kbd> where the space is quoted as a character, differs much from <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;"><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=holly+dolly&ns0=1&fulltext=Search">holly dolly</a></span></kbd> where the space is interpreted as a logical AND. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Suffixed_tilde_character_for_fuzzy_search" data-mw-thread-id="h-Suffixed_tilde_character_for_fuzzy_search-Special_characters"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Suffixed_tilde_character_for_fuzzy_search-Special_characters"></span>Suffixed tilde character for fuzzy search<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Suffixed_tilde_character_for_fuzzy_search-Special_characters"></span></h4></div> <p><span class="anchor" id="fuzzy_search"></span><span class="anchor" id="respell"></span> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="H:FUZZY"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=H:FUZZY&redirect=no">H:FUZZY</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Approximate_string_matching" title="Approximate string matching">Spelling relaxation</a> is requested by suffixing a tilde <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">~</kbd>, like <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">this~</kbd> to match results like <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">thus</samp> and <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">thins</samp>. It covers any two character-changes for any character except the first: it returns addition, exchange, or subtraction. This search technique is sometimes called a "sounds-like" search. For example, searching for <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;"><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=charlie%7E+parker%7E&ns0=1&fulltext=Search">charlie~ parker~</a></span></kbd> returns <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">Charlie Parker</samp>, <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">Charles Palmer</samp>, <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">Charley Parks</samp>, etc. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Prefixed_tilde_character_for_forced_search" data-mw-thread-id="h-Prefixed_tilde_character_for_forced_search-Special_characters"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Prefixed_tilde_character_for_forced_search-Special_characters"></span>Prefixed tilde character for forced search<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Prefixed_tilde_character_for_forced_search-Special_characters"></span></h4></div> <p><span class="anchor" id="forced_search"></span> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="H:FORCE"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=H:FORCE&redirect=no">H:FORCE</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>To force a search rather than navigate directly to a matching page, include a tilde character <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">~</kbd> anywhere in the query. It always takes you to the search results page, never jumping to a single title. For example, the misspelling <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">similiar</kbd> is <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirect" title="Wikipedia:Redirect">redirected</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Similarity" class="mw-disambig" title="Similarity">Similarity</a> article (or, in this case, disambiguation page); but prefixing a tilde, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;"><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=%7Esimiliar+prefix%3AHelp%3ASearching&ns0=1&fulltext=Search">~similiar</a></span></kbd>, lists pages containing that misspelling. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Prefixed_hyphen_or_exclamation_point_for_exclusion" data-mw-thread-id="h-Prefixed_hyphen_or_exclamation_point_for_exclusion-Special_characters"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Prefixed_hyphen_or_exclamation_point_for_exclusion-Special_characters"></span>Prefixed hyphen or exclamation point for exclusion<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Prefixed_hyphen_or_exclamation_point_for_exclusion-Special_characters"></span></h4></div> <p><span class="anchor" id="exclusion"></span><span class="anchor" id="hyphen"></span> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="H:EXCLUDE"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=H:EXCLUDE&redirect=no">H:EXCLUDE</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>Pages matching a search term can be excluded by prefixing an exclamation point (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">!</kbd>) or a hyphen (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">-</kbd>) to the term. This is the <a href="/wiki/Logical_NOT" class="mw-redirect" title="Logical NOT">logical NOT</a>. For example, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;"><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=credit+card+-%22credit+card%22&ns0=1&fulltext=Search">credit card -"credit card"</a></span></kbd> finds all articles with <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">credit</samp> and <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">card</samp> <em>except</em> those with the phrase <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">credit card</samp>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Wildcard_characters" data-mw-thread-id="h-Wildcard_characters-Special_characters"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Wildcard_characters-Special_characters"></span>Wildcard characters<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Wildcard_characters-Special_characters"></span></h4></div> <p><span class="anchor" id="wildcard"></span><span class="anchor" id="wildcard_search"></span> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="H:WLD"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=H:WLD&redirect=no">H:WLD</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>The two wildcard characters are <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">*</kbd> and <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">\?</kbd>, and both can come in the middle or end of a word. The escaped question mark stands for one character and the star stands for any number of characters. Because many users ask questions when searching, question marks are ignored by default, and the escaped question mark (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">\?</kbd>) must be used for a wildcard. </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Non-alphabetic_characters" data-mw-thread-id="h-Non-alphabetic_characters-Special_characters"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Non-alphabetic_characters-Special_characters"></span>Non-alphabetic characters<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Non-alphabetic_characters-Special_characters"></span></h4></div> <p>For non-alphabetic characters, regex expressions are needed. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033199720"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><span role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable crossreference selfref">(See <a href="#insource:">#insource:</a> below.)</span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Logical_operators" data-mw-thread-id="h-Logical_operators-Special_characters"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Logical_operators-Special_characters"></span>Logical operators<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Logical_operators-Special_characters"></span></h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="H:BOOLEAN"></span><span id="H:LOPS"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=H:BOOLEAN&redirect=no">H:BOOLEAN</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=H:LOPS&redirect=no">H:LOPS</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>The search engine supports <em>limited</em> boolean logic in searches. <a href="/wiki/Negation" title="Negation">Logical NOT (negation)</a> can be indicated by a "<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">-</kbd>" (minus sign) or a "<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">!</kbd>" (exclamation point) character prefixed to a search term, or by the <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">NOT</kbd> keyword. </p><p>Parentheses <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">(…)</kbd> are ignored by the search engine and have no effect. </p><p>Search terms are implicitly joined by <a href="/wiki/Logical_conjunction" title="Logical conjunction">logical AND (conjunction)</a>. For example <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">"credit card" housecat</kbd> searches for pages containing both "credit card" and "housecat". An <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">OR</kbd> operator is supported, but will only give intuitive results (corresponding to <a href="/wiki/Logical_disjunction" title="Logical disjunction">logical disjunction</a>) if <i>all</i> search terms are separated by <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">OR</kbd> (e.g. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">red OR green OR blue</kbd> has the expected behaviour, but <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">red OR green blue</kbd> does not). <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">OR</kbd> also does not behave predictably with special keywords (like <code>intitle:</code>) or namespaces. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033199720"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><span role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable crossreference selfref">(See <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch/Logical_operators" class="extiw" title="mw:Help:CirrusSearch/Logical operators">mw:Help:CirrusSearch/Logical operators</a> for a more detailed explanation.)</span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Parameters" data-mw-thread-id="h-Parameters-Search_string_syntax"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Parameters-Search_string_syntax"></span>Parameters<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Parameters-Search_string_syntax"></span></h3></div> <p><span class="anchor" id="Parameter_searches"></span> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">This section is about search parameters. For template parameters, see <a href="/wiki/Help:Template#Parameters" title="Help:Template">Help:Template § Parameters</a>.</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="H:PARAM"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=H:PARAM&redirect=no">H:PARAM</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>Parameters function as name filters, each followed by the search term it operates on. Their search term may be a word or a phrase. The main parameters are <b><code><var style="padding-right: 1px;">namespace</var>:</code></b>, <b><code>intitle:</code></b>, <b><code>insource:</code></b>, <b><code>incategory:</code></b>, and <b><code>prefix:</code></b> (<var style="padding-right: 1px;">namespace</var> as used here isn't literal – use the name of the actual namespace desired). </p><p><code>prefix:</code> differs from the other parameters in that it can only be used at the end of a search string. </p><p>A single <code><var style="padding-right: 1px;">namespace</var>:</code> filter can go first, and a single <code>prefix:</code> filter can go last. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="namespace:" data-mw-thread-id="h-namespace:-Parameters"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-namespace:-Parameters"></span><code><var>namespace</var>:</code><span data-mw-comment-end="h-namespace:-Parameters"></span></h4></div> <p><span class="anchor" id="namespace_name:"></span> Only articles are searched by default because most users are only readers. Given only at the <em>beginning</em> of the query, a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Namespace" title="Wikipedia:Namespace">namespace</a> name followed by a colon limits search results to that namespace. It is a filter without a query string. The namespace can also be selected at <a href="/wiki/Special:Search" title="Special:Search">Special:Search</a>. </p><p>Namespace <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Namespace#Aliases" title="Wikipedia:Namespace">aliases</a> like <code>WP:</code> or <code>wp:</code> instead of <code>Wikipedia:</code> are accepted. </p><p><code>User:</code> will normally go directly to a user page even if it doesn't exist. To search userspace, use <a href="/wiki/Special:Search" title="Special:Search">Special:Search</a> or click "Search for pages containing" below the search box. </p><p><code>all:</code> will search all namespaces. </p><p>To search multiple namespaces but not all, use "Search in:" at <a href="/wiki/Special:Search" title="Special:Search">Special:Search</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="all:" data-mw-thread-id="h-all:-Parameters"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-all:-Parameters"></span>all:<span data-mw-comment-end="h-all:-Parameters"></span></h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="H:ALL"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=H:ALL&redirect=no">H:ALL</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><span class="anchor" id="All"></span><span class="anchor" id="all"></span> </p><p>Prefixing <code>all:</code> (in lower case) searches all namespaces, sorted by namespace, and with substring matches at the end.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="intitle:" data-mw-thread-id="h-intitle:-Parameters"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-intitle:-Parameters"></span><code>intitle:</code><span data-mw-comment-end="h-intitle:-Parameters"></span></h4></div> <p><span class="anchor" id="intitle"></span> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="H:INTIT"></span><span id="H:INTITLE"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=H:INTIT&redirect=no">H:INTIT</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=H:INTITLE&redirect=no">H:INTITLE</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Help:Page_name" title="Help:Page name">Page titles</a> and redirects can be searched with <code>intitle:<var style="padding-right: 1px;">query</var></code>, where <var style="padding-right: 1px;">query</var> is the search string. The search results highlight occurrences in both the title and page content. Multiple <code>intitle:</code> filters may be used to search for words in titles regardless of order, or in different titles (i.e., redirects) for the same article. <a href="/wiki/Help:Searching/Regex" title="Help:Searching/Regex">Regular expressions</a> can be used with <code>intitle:/<var style="padding-right: 1px;">regexp</var>/</code> or the case insensitive <code>intitle:/<var style="padding-right: 1px;">regexp</var>/i</code>. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033199720"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><span role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable crossreference selfref">(See more in the <a href="#insource:">insource</a> section.)</span> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Query </th> <th>Description </th></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;"><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=intitle%3Aairport&ns0=1&fulltext=Search">intitle:airport</a></span></kbd> </td> <td>All articles with <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">airport</samp> (or <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">Airport</samp> – this is case-insensitive) in their titles. </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;"><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=parking+intitle%3Aairport&ns0=1&fulltext=Search">parking intitle:airport</a></span></kbd> </td> <td>Articles with <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">parking</samp> in their text and <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">airport</samp> in their titles. </td></tr> <tr> <td style="white-space:" nowrap=""><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;"><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=intitle%3Ainternational+intitle%3Aairport&ns0=1&fulltext=Search">intitle:international intitle:airport</a></span></kbd> </td> <td>Articles containing both <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">international</samp> and <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">airport</samp> in their titles (including, e.g., <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">Airports Council International</samp>) </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;"><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=intitle%3A%22international+airport%22&ns0=1&fulltext=Search">intitle:"international airport"</a></span></kbd> </td> <td>Articles with the phrase <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">international airport</samp> in their titles. </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;"><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=airport+-intitle%3Aairport&ns0=1&fulltext=Search">airport -intitle:airport</a></span></kbd> </td> <td>Articles with <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">airport</samp> in their text but not in their titles. </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="insource:" data-mw-thread-id="h-insource:-Parameters"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-insource:-Parameters"></span><code>insource:</code><span data-mw-comment-end="h-insource:-Parameters"></span></h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="H:INSOURCE"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=H:INSOURCE&redirect=no">H:INSOURCE</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><span class="anchor" id="insource"></span> </p><p>This can find template arguments, URLs, links, html, etc. It has two forms, one is an indexed search, and the other is <a href="/wiki/Help:Searching/Regex" title="Help:Searching/Regex">regex-based</a>. </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Query </th> <th>Description </th></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">insource:<var style="padding-right: 1px;">word</var></kbd><br/><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">insource:"<var style="padding-right: 1px;">word1 word2</var>"</kbd> </td> <td>Like word searches and exact-phrase searches, non-alphanumeric characters are ignored, and proximity and fuzziness are options. </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">insource:/<var style="padding-right: 1px;">regexp</var>/</kbd><br/><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">insource:/<var style="padding-right: 1px;">regexp</var>/i</kbd> </td> <td>These are <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Regex" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Regex">regular expressions</a>. They use a lot of processing power, so we can only allow a few at a time on the search cluster, but they are very powerful. The version with the extra <code>i</code> runs the expression case-insensitive, and is even less efficient. Regex searches are likely to time out unless you further limit the search in some way, such as by including another parameter or a search term outside of the insource component of the search string. (For example, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">X* intitle:/X/</kbd> to restrict the search to initial position.) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033199720"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><span role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable crossreference selfref">For more details, see <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch#Regular_expression_searches" class="extiw" title="mw:Help:CirrusSearch">mw:Help:CirrusSearch#Regular expression searches</a>.</span> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="incategory:" data-mw-thread-id="h-incategory:-Parameters"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-incategory:-Parameters"></span><code>incategory:</code><span data-mw-comment-end="h-incategory:-Parameters"></span></h4></div> <p><span class="anchor" id="incategory"></span><span class="anchor" id="Incategory"></span> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="H:INCAT"></span><span id="H:INCATEGORY"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=H:INCAT&redirect=no">H:INCAT</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=H:INCATEGORY&redirect=no">H:INCATEGORY</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>Given as <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">incategory:<var style="padding-right: 1px;">category</var></kbd>, where <a href="/wiki/Help:Category" title="Help:Category"><var style="padding-right: 1px;">category</var></a> is the <a href="/wiki/Help:Page_name" title="Help:Page name">page name</a> of a category page, it lists pages assigned to the given category by methods including the addition of <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">[[Category:<var style="padding-right: 1px;">page name</var>]]</kbd> to their wikitext. (Editors searching in namespaces other than mainspace will need to know <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:TCAT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:TCAT">the limitations</a> these search results may contain.) If the category page name includes space characters; replace the spaces with underscores (e.g. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">incategory:Pages_of_interest</kbd>), surround the page name with double quotes (e.g. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">incategory:"Pages of interest"</kbd>) or both (but not on the <a href="/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons" title="Wikimedia Commons">Wikimedia Commons</a> site). <code>incategory:</code> will also return pages in the adjacent subcategory <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033199720"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><span role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable crossreference selfref">(see for example, <span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;"><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=category%3A+incategory%3AHistory&ns0=1&fulltext=Search">category: incategory:History</a></span></kbd></span>)</span>. Multiple <code>incategory:</code> filters may be applied. A more graphical alternative to a single filter is at <a href="/wiki/Special:CategoryTree" title="Special:CategoryTree">Special:CategoryTree</a>. Because categories are important structures for <em>searching</em> for related articles, any use of this prefix is particularly effective for searching. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033199720"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><span role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable crossreference selfref">(For more on using the categories themselves to find articles, see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Categories" title="Wikipedia:FAQ/Categories">Wikipedia:FAQ/Categories</a>.)</span> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Query </th> <th>Description </th></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;"><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=Berlin+incategory%3AGerman_chemists&ns0=1&fulltext=Search">Berlin incategory:German_chemists</a></span></kbd> </td> <td>Starting with the articles listed at <a href="/wiki/Category:German_chemists" title="Category:German chemists">Category: German chemists</a>, only the ones that have the word <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">Berlin</samp> in their text. </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;"><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=incategory%3A%22Suspension+bridges+in+the+United+States%22+incategory%3A%22Bridges+in+New+York+City%22&ns0=1&fulltext=Search">incategory:"Suspension bridges in the United States" incategory:"Bridges in New York City"</a></span></kbd> </td> <td>Articles that are <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CI" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CI">common to both categories</a> – the suspension bridges in New York City. This will return nothing since all NYC bridges are categorized in subcategories, and <code>incategory:</code> doesn't search in subcategories. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033199720"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><span role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable crossreference selfref">(For the probably desired result, see usage of <code>deepcategory:</code> in the next section.)</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;"><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=incategory%3A%22Suspension+bridges+in+New+York+City%22+incategory%3A%22Bridges+in+Brooklyn%22&ns0=1&fulltext=Search">incategory:"Suspension bridges in New York City" incategory:"Bridges in Brooklyn"</a></span></kbd> </td> <td>Suspension bridges of Brooklyn. </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;"><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=%22feral+cat%22+-incategory%3A%22Category%3ACats+in+the+United+Kingdom%22&ns0=1&fulltext=Search">"feral cat" -incategory:"Category:Cats in the United Kingdom"</a></span></kbd> </td> <td>Articles that contain the phrase <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">feral cat</samp>, but not listed in <a href="/wiki/Category:Cats_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Category:Cats in the United Kingdom">Category:Cats in the United Kingdom</a>. </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="deepcategory:" data-mw-thread-id="h-deepcategory:-Parameters"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-deepcategory:-Parameters"></span><code>deepcategory:</code><span data-mw-comment-end="h-deepcategory:-Parameters"></span></h4></div> <p><span class="anchor" id="deepcategory"></span> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="H:DEEPCAT"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=H:DEEPCAT&redirect=no">H:DEEPCAT</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>Also <code>deepcat:</code>, this allows you to search in a category and all its subcategories. The depth of the tree is currently limited to 5 levels, and the overall number of categories is limited to 1000. </p><p>Examples: </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Query </th> <th>Description </th></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;"><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=deepcat%3A%22Musicals+by+topic%22&ns0=1&fulltext=Search">deepcat:"Musicals by topic"</a></span></kbd> </td> <td>All musicals of any topic. (Finds articles that are in <a href="/wiki/Category:Musicals_by_topic" title="Category:Musicals by topic">Category:Musicals by topic</a> or any of its subcategories.) </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;"><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=Berlin+deepcat%3AGerman_chemists&ns0=1&fulltext=Search">Berlin deepcat:German_chemists</a></span></kbd> </td> <td>Starting with the articles listed at <a href="/wiki/Category:German_chemists" title="Category:German chemists">Category: German chemists</a>, only the ones that have the word <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">Berlin</samp> in their text. </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;"><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=deepcat%3A%22Suspension+bridges+in+the+United+States%22+deepcat%3A%22Bridges+in+New+York+City%22&ns0=1&fulltext=Search">deepcat:"Suspension bridges in the United States" deepcat:"Bridges in New York City"</a></span></kbd> </td> <td>Articles that are <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CI" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CI">common to both categories</a> – the suspension bridges in New York City. This will work since all NYC bridges are categorized in subcategories, and <code>incategory:</code> doesn't search in subcategories but <code>deepcat:</code> does. </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;"><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=deepcat%3A%22Suspension+bridges+in+New+York+City%22+deepcat%3A%22Bridges+in+Brooklyn%22&ns0=1&fulltext=Search">deepcat:"Suspension bridges in New York City" deepcat:"Bridges in Brooklyn"</a></span></kbd> </td> <td>Suspension bridges of Brooklyn. </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;"><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=%22feral+cat%22+-deepcat%3A%22Category%3ACats+in+the+United+Kingdom%22&ns0=1&fulltext=Search">"feral cat" -deepcat:"Category:Cats in the United Kingdom"</a></span></kbd> </td> <td>Articles that contain the phrase <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">feral cat</samp>, but not listed in <a href="/wiki/Category:Cats_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Category:Cats in the United Kingdom">Category:Cats in the United Kingdom</a> or its subcategories. </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="prefix:" data-mw-thread-id="h-prefix:-Parameters"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-prefix:-Parameters"></span><code>prefix:</code><span data-mw-comment-end="h-prefix:-Parameters"></span></h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="H:PREFIX"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=H:PREFIX&redirect=no">H:PREFIX</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><span class="anchor" id="prefix"></span> </p><p><code>prefix:<var style="padding-right: 1px;">page name</var></code> patterns <em>only the beginning characters</em> of a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Page_name" title="Wikipedia:Page name">page name</a>. Because the "beginning" characters can, if you need, go on to include the characters all the way to the end of the page name, prefix must include spaces, since page names often include spaces. For this reason <code>prefix:</code> must only ever be given as the <em>last part</em> of a search box query, and next character after the colon cannot be a space. <code>prefix:</code> does not search for partial namespace names, but requires at least a full namespace name to start to find pages, but <code>prefix:</code> also recognizes an <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Namespace#Aliases" title="Wikipedia:Namespace">alias</a> of a namespace, and it recognizes redirects (or shortcut). Prefix is the most widely used and powerful filter as it can mimic the namespace filter, and because <code>intitle:</code> cannot easily target a single page, even together with other filters. <a href="/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex" title="Special:PrefixIndex">Special:PrefixIndex</a> is a MediaWiki, graphical, version, using only <code>prefix:</code> to find pages. </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Query </th> <th>Description </th></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;"><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=Salvage+wreck+prefix%3AUSS&ns0=1&fulltext=Search">Salvage wreck prefix:USS</a></span></kbd> </td> <td>Articles containing the words <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">salvage</samp> and <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">wreck</samp> whose title starts with the characters <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">USS</samp>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;"><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=wave+particle+prefix%3ATalk%3ASpeed+of+light&ns0=1&fulltext=Search">wave particle prefix:Talk:Speed of light</a></span></kbd> </td> <td>The <a href="/wiki/Speed_of_light" title="Speed of light">Speed of light</a> article's talk pages containing the terms <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">particle</samp> and <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">wave</samp>, including the current and the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Archive" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Archive">archived</a> talk <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Subpage" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Subpage">subpages</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;"><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=wave+particle+prefix%3ATalk%3ASpeed+of+light%2F&ns0=1&fulltext=Search">wave particle prefix:Talk:Speed of light/</a></span></kbd> </td> <td>Same search, but only in the archived talk subpages. </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;"><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=%22portal+namespace%22++readers+prefix%3AWikipedia+talk%3A&ns0=1&fulltext=Search">"portal namespace" readers prefix:Wikipedia talk:</a></span></kbd> </td> <td>Is equivalent to <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">Wikipedia talk:"portal namespace" readers</samp>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;"><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=language+prefix%3APortal%3AChi&ns0=1&fulltext=Search">language prefix:Portal:Chi</a></span></kbd> </td> <td>Portal namespace page names that begin with <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">Portal:Chi</samp> and have the word <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">language</samp> in the page. </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="linksto:" data-mw-thread-id="h-linksto:-Parameters"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-linksto:-Parameters"></span><code>linksto:</code><span data-mw-comment-end="h-linksto:-Parameters"></span></h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="H:LINKSTO"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=H:LINKSTO&redirect=no">H:LINKSTO</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><span class="anchor" id="linksto"></span> </p><p><code>linksto:<var style="padding-right: 1px;">page name</var></code> searches in pages that link to the given page. Can be used negatively by prefixing a hyphen, which will return pages that <em>do not</em> link to the given page. Unlike with some other keywords, the page name is case-sensitive. </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Query </th> <th>Description </th></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;"><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=linksto%3AAirport&ns0=1&fulltext=Search">linksto:Airport</a></span></kbd> </td> <td>All articles containing internal link to <a href="/wiki/Airport" title="Airport">Airport</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;"><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=parking+linksto%3AAirport&ns0=1&fulltext=Search">parking linksto:Airport</a></span></kbd> </td> <td>Articles with <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">parking</samp> in their text linking to <a href="/wiki/Airport" title="Airport">Airport</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;"><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=-linksto%3A%22Albert+Einstein%22+%22Albert+Einstein%22&ns0=1&fulltext=Search">-linksto:"Albert Einstein" "Albert Einstein"</a></span></kbd> </td> <td>Articles containing <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">Albert Einstein</samp> NOT linking to <a href="/wiki/Albert_Einstein" title="Albert Einstein">Albert Einstein</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="subpageof:" data-mw-thread-id="h-subpageof:-Parameters"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-subpageof:-Parameters"></span><code>subpageof:</code><span data-mw-comment-end="h-subpageof:-Parameters"></span></h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="H:SUBOF"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=H:SUBOF&redirect=no">H:SUBOF</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><span class="anchor" id="subpageof"></span> </p><p>This limits searches to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Subpages" title="Wikipedia:Subpages">subpages</a> of the specified page. You can also negate the subpages from a search by preceding subpageof: with a hyphen. Note that articles on Wikipedia don't have subpages, but the pages of the other namespaces do. Therefore, use the <a href="#namespace_name:">namespace parameter</a> also, or select the namespace at <a href="/wiki/Special:Search" title="Special:Search">Special:Search</a>. Here are some examples: </p><p>For <code>User:</code> searches, click "Search for pages containing" or use <a href="/wiki/Special:Search" title="Special:Search">Special:Search</a>. This is not needed for other namespaces. To look at all the subpages of a user, try this: </p><p><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">User:subpageof:AzaToth</kbd> </p><p>That will display all the subpages of <a href="/wiki/User:AzaToth" title="User:AzaToth">User:AzaToth</a>. They can also be seen at <a href="/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/User:AzaToth/" title="Special:PrefixIndex/User:AzaToth/">Special:PrefixIndex/User:AzaToth/</a> but <a href="/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex" title="Special:PrefixIndex">Special:PrefixIndex</a> cannot be combined with a search. </p><p>To make sure Articles for deletion pages do not show up in the results of a Wikipedia namespace search, try this: </p><p><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">Wikipedia:"Hi there" -subpageof:"Articles for deletion"</kbd> </p><p>That will show pages from the Wikipedia namespace with "Hi there" in them, and the list of results will not be cluttered with any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion" title="Wikipedia:Articles for deletion">WP:Articles for deletion</a> debates (there are hundreds of thousands). Notice the use of the hyphen (that makes it mean "not subpages of"). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="hastemplate:" data-mw-thread-id="h-hastemplate:-Parameters"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-hastemplate:-Parameters"></span><code>hastemplate:</code><span data-mw-comment-end="h-hastemplate:-Parameters"></span></h4></div> <p><span class="anchor" id="hastemplate"></span> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="H:HASTEMP"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=H:HASTEMP&redirect=no">H:HASTEMP</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>This finds pages that use the specified <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Template" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Template">template</a>. Input the canonical page name to find all usage of the template, but use any of its redirect page names finds just that naming. Namespace aliases are accepted, capitalization is entirely ignored, and redirects are found, all in one name-search. </p><p>This is more thorough than <code>insource:</code>, in that it will find meta-templates (templates called by another template). Meta-templates don't show up in the local page's wikitext. </p><p>Example of <code>hastemplate:</code> usage: </p><p><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">hastemplate:"Article for deletion/dated"</kbd> </p><p>This lets you find all the articles being considered for deletion. </p><p><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">intitle:"Outline of " -hastemplate:"Outline footer"</kbd> </p><p>This lets you find <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Outlines" title="Wikipedia:Outlines">Wikipedia outlines</a> that lack the outline footer template. (Notice the use of the hyphen to indicate "NOT"). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="articletopic:" data-mw-thread-id="h-articletopic:-Parameters"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-articletopic:-Parameters"></span><code>articletopic:</code><span data-mw-comment-end="h-articletopic:-Parameters"></span></h4></div> <p><span class="anchor" id="articletopic"></span> </p><p>This keyword allows filtering search results by topic. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033199720"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><span role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable crossreference selfref">(For possible topics see <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch/articletopic" class="extiw" title="mw:Help:CirrusSearch/articletopic">mw:Help:CirrusSearch/articletopic</a>.)</span> E.g. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">articletopic:books</kbd> will filter the search results to articles about books. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">articletopic:books|films</kbd> will filter to articles about books or films. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">articletopic:books articletopic:films</kbd> will filter to articles which are about both books and films. </p><p>Only mainspace articles belong to topics. Unlike most other filters, <code>articletopic:</code> also does page weighting: articles which are a stronger match for a topic will be higher in the search results (while articles which aren't about that subject at all will be removed from the result set completely). </p><p>Topic models are derived via machine learning from <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ORES#Topic_routing" class="extiw" title="mw:ORES">ORES</a>. Any given article receives a score on dozens of different topics, and therefore may appear under different keywords. For instance, the article on Albert Einstein may appear as a "physics" article and a "biography" article. Topic-related search data is updated weekly, so recently created articles might not show up in topic-based search queries. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Search_page" data-mw-thread-id="h-Search_page"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Search_page"></span>Search page<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Search_page"></span></h2></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Search_page.PNG" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Wikipedia special search box" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Search_page.PNG/300px-Search_page.PNG" decoding="async" width="300" height="108" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Search_page.PNG/450px-Search_page.PNG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/Search_page.PNG 2x" data-file-width="466" data-file-height="167"/></a><figcaption>The search page.</figcaption></figure> <p>The search page features a search box, with some links to search domains beneath it. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033199720"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><span role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable crossreference selfref">(For information on what can by typed into the search box, see <a href="#Search_string_syntax">Search string syntax</a> above.)</span> </p><p>The main difference between this search box and the one that appears on article pages is that exact matches on this one will not navigate you directly to an article page. This search box will produce the <a href="#Search_results_page">search results page</a> showing what all matches your search on Wikipedia. </p><p>To get to the search page, do an empty search (press <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868"><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">↵ Enter</kbd> while in the <a href="#Search_box">search box</a> before typing anything else in), or click on the magnifying glass in the search box. The link <a href="/wiki/Special:Search" title="Special:Search">Special:Search</a>, which can be inserted onto user pages or project pages, for example, also leads to the search page. </p><p>While the entire contents of the search page is included in the <a href="#Search_results_page">search results page</a>, it is a distinct page. User scripts might be designed to work on the search results page but not the search page, for example. </p><p><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033199720"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><span role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable crossreference selfref">(For an explanation of the controls available on the search page, see <a href="#Refining_results">Refining results</a> below.)</span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Search_results_page" data-mw-thread-id="h-Search_results_page"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Search_results_page"></span>Search results page<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Search_results_page"></span></h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="H:RESULTS"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=H:RESULTS&redirect=no">H:RESULTS</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>The search results page looks just like the <a href="#Search_page">search page</a>, with the results for your search query presented below it. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033199720"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><span role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable crossreference selfref">(For information on what can by typed into the search box, see <a href="#Search_string_syntax">Search string syntax</a> above.)</span> </p><p>The search results page is displayed when a search is done from the search page, when a search from the regular <a href="#Search_box">search box</a> does not exactly match a page title, or when any parameters or special characters are included in a <a href="#Search_string">search string</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Understanding_search_results" data-mw-thread-id="h-Understanding_search_results-Search_results_page"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Understanding_search_results-Search_results_page"></span>Understanding search results<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Understanding_search_results-Search_results_page"></span></h3></div> <p>The search string entered will be displayed in the search box on the page, in case you wish to modify it. </p><p>Spelling corrections and query corrections are offered at the top of the results <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033199720"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><span role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable crossreference selfref">(see <a href="#Preliminary_reports">Preliminary reports</a>, below)</span>. </p><p>Note that search results include content from templates displayed on the pages searched. </p><p>The order that search results are presented in is based on the page ranking software. </p><p>Results match word stems, along with their various tenses (past tense, plural tense, etc.), except for anything included between double quotation marks. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033199720"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><span role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable crossreference selfref">See <a href="#Stem_matching">Stem matching</a>, below.</span> </p><p>Throughout the results, matching terms are highlighted in bold. All matches in the title show for sure, while matches within the details may show, but not if they are far apart on the page. </p><p>Matches are included for section headings, members of matching categories, and destination pages of redirects. These will show off to the side of the page name, parenthetically. </p><p>A single result (one each) from selected sister projects appears on the right side of the page (the most likely relevant match for each). This feature may be permanently turned off in <a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences" title="Special:Preferences">Preferences</a>. </p><p>Files from Wikimedia Commons are included within the results when the <code>File:</code> namespace has been selected. You can prepend search terms with <code>local:</code> to limit results to locally uploaded files. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Preliminary_reports" data-mw-thread-id="h-Preliminary_reports-Understanding_search_results"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Preliminary_reports-Understanding_search_results"></span>Preliminary reports<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Preliminary_reports-Understanding_search_results"></span></h4></div> <p>Search results will often be accompanied by a preliminary report. </p> <ul><li><b>There is a page named "<span style="color: #0645AD;"><var style="padding-right: 1px;">Page name</var></span>"</b> (a wikilink to an existing page)</li> <li><span style="color: #CC2200;">Did you mean:</span> <span style="color: #0645AD;"><var style="padding-right: 1px;">spelling correction</var></span> (either a wikilink or a search-link)</li> <li><i>You may create the page "<span style="color: #CC2200;"><var style="padding-right: 1px;">New title</var></span>"</i> (a redlink to a new page name)</li></ul> <p>The <i>Did you mean</i> report corrects dictionary word spellings and gives a link that is either a wikilink that will navigate to an article or a search link that will perform a query. The distinction can be made by observing the presence of a <i>You may create the page</i> report. Another report corrects "spellings" to coincide with any "word" found in a search index (any word on the wiki): </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r996643573">.mw-parser-output .block-indent{padding-left:3em;padding-right:0;overflow:hidden}</style><div class="block-indent"><span style="color: #CC2200;">Showing results for</span> <span style="color: #0645AD;"><b><var style="padding-right: 1px;">query correction</var></b></span>. <span style="color: #CC2200;">Search instead for</span> <span style="color: #0645AD;"><var style="padding-right: 1px;">your query</var></span> (two search links).</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Refining_results" data-mw-thread-id="h-Refining_results-Search_results_page"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Refining_results-Search_results_page"></span>Refining results<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Refining_results-Search_results_page"></span></h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="H:REFINE"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=H:REFINE&redirect=no">H:REFINE</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>The <i>Search</i> page is designed for presenting and refining results in a re-search loop controlled by modifying the query or the search parameters, such as namespace. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Namespaces_2" data-mw-thread-id="h-Namespaces_2-Refining_results"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Namespaces_2-Refining_results"></span>Namespaces<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Namespaces_2-Refining_results"></span></h4></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Wiki_search_namespaces.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Wiki_search_namespaces.png/280px-Wiki_search_namespaces.png" decoding="async" width="280" height="260" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Wiki_search_namespaces.png/420px-Wiki_search_namespaces.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Wiki_search_namespaces.png/560px-Wiki_search_namespaces.png 2x" data-file-width="773" data-file-height="719"/></a><figcaption>By default only the Article namespace is searched, but these checkboxes can be used to add other types of Wikipedia pages such as talk pages or user pages.</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Article" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Article">Articles</a> are in the main <a href="/wiki/Help:Namespace" class="mw-redirect" title="Help:Namespace">namespace</a>, or "article space", but <i><a href="/wiki/Special:Statistics" title="Special:Statistics">Special:Statistics</a></i> will show that there are many times more <i>pages</i> on Wikipedia than there are <i>articles</i> on Wikipedia. Other <i>types</i> of pages are in other <i>namespaces</i>, and these can be selected using the checkboxes that appear when expanding the section labelled <i>Search in:</i> under the search box. </p> <ul><li>"Default": Only search encyclopedia articles (also called <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:MAINSPACE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:MAINSPACE">mainspace</a>).</li> <li>"Discussion": Search <a href="/wiki/Help:Talk_pages" title="Help:Talk pages">talk pages</a>. Some discussions are in the <code>Wikipedia:</code> namespace, which can be included by also selecting "General help" (which also adds help pages) or by selecting "Wikipedia" under "Add namespaces…".</li> <li>"General Help": Search the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_namespace" title="Wikipedia:Help namespace"><code>Help:</code> namespace</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Project_namespace" title="Wikipedia:Project namespace"><code>Wikipedia:</code> namespace</a> (also called project namespace). The latter contains various types of pages including many help pages. <ul><li>Unfortunarely, there is no reliable way to exclude discussion pages from the results, but you can try adding to your query <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">-insource:/$UTC$/</kbd> (which would also exclude help pages containing "(UTC)"); or try something more delicate like <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=interwiki+wikidata+-intitle%3A%2F%5B0-9%5D%7B4%7D%7C%5BAa%5Dssessm%7C%5BCc%5Dandi%7C%5BPp%5Dropos%7C+%5BFf%5Dor+%7C%5C%2F%5BAa%5Drchive%7CRRA%7C%5BRr%5Dequest%28s%7Ced%29%7CR%5BFf%5DC%7CMeetu%7Cticeb%7C%28Recent+%7CiProj%7CMediat%7C%5BSs%5Dock+%3Fp%7Csancti%7Ceview%7Ctigations%7Cslation%7Ckf%7Ce+wee%7CUsu%7CGL%7Cse+re%7Cifun%29.%2A%5C%2F%2F&title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns4=1&ns12=1">this</a> (which would also exclude help subpages of WikiProjects).</li></ul></li> <li>"All": Search every page on the entire wiki, for example also drafts and user pages.</li></ul> <p>Click "Add namespaces…" to select <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Namespace" title="Wikipedia:Namespace">namespaces</a> individually. </p><p>In order to fully interpret the search results page, check which search domains are checked off, but also remember to check for a namespace name at the beginning or a <code>prefix:</code> parameter at the end of the search box query. A namespace entered in a query always takes priority for determination of the search domain of a query, and will at any time override your default search domain, or any displayed <i>profile</i>. A <code>prefix:</code> parameter at <em>the end</em> of a query in the search box, furthermore, will override any namespace there, or any <i>profile</i> underneath that. Equivalently, you could check the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:URL" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:URL">URL</a> in your browser's address bar for profile and namespace parameter settings, because the search query was sent to the search engine by way of that URL. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Sorting" data-mw-thread-id="h-Sorting-Refining_results"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Sorting-Refining_results"></span>Sorting<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Sorting-Refining_results"></span></h4></div> <p>By default, results are ordered by <a href="/wiki/Relevance_(information_retrieval)" title="Relevance (information retrieval)">relevance</a>. The "Sorting order" control in the "Advanced search" section allows you to select two other sort orders: most recently edited, and most recently created. </p><p>An advanced technique is to manually modify the URL to achieve other sort orders. For example, adding <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">user input</kbd> to the end of the URL will sort pages with the most incoming links to the top, and <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">user input</kbd> will randomly order results. For a full list of available sort orders, see <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch#Explicit_sort_orders" class="extiw" title="mw:Help:CirrusSearch">mw:Help:CirrusSearch#Explicit sort orders</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Search_settings" data-mw-thread-id="h-Search_settings"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Search_settings"></span>Search settings<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Search_settings"></span></h2></div> <p><span class="anchor" id="User_preferences"></span> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main page: <a href="/wiki/Help:User_preferences" class="mw-redirect" title="Help:User preferences">Help:User preferences</a></div> <p>There is a <span class="example" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences" title="Special:Preferences">Preferences</a> → <a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-searchoptions" title="Special:Preferences">Search</a></span> tab. (You must be logged in.) </p><p>The <i>default search domain</i> is article space, but any user can change this default, and have their own <i>default search domain</i> for all the queries they run. In any case a query always can specify a namespace to make the search domain explicit and override any default. At the search results page, <a href="/wiki/Special:Search" title="Special:Search">Special:Search</a>, <i>Advanced</i> dialog, a search can specify any number of namespaces, and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Why_create_an_account" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Why create an account">logged-in users</a> can set their <i>default search domain</i> there by clicking "Remember selection for future searches".<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Visit your <span class="example" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences" title="Special:Preferences">Preferences</a> → <a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets" title="Special:Preferences">Gadgets</a></span> page (requires JavaScript) to set up: </p> <ul><li>several external search engines' views of Wikipedia. The search results page will then have a pull down list to the left of its search box, offering your choice as, say, a modification of a word or phrase search, or a page ranking refinement. Go to <span class="example" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences" title="Special:Preferences">Preferences</a> → <a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets" title="Special:Preferences">Gadgets</a></span> <i>Appearance</i>, and see "Add a selector to the Wikipedia search page allowing the use of external search engines."</li> <li>a wider search box. Go to <i>Appearance</i> and find "Widen the search box in the Vector skin."</li> <li><span class="example" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences" title="Special:Preferences">Preferences</a> → <a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-searchoptions" title="Special:Preferences">Search</a> → Completion</span>. Spell-correct titles dropped-down from the search box as you type, or not. Or go to <span class="example" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences" title="Special:Preferences">Preferences</a> → <a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering" title="Special:Preferences">Appearance</a></span> and see "Disable the suggestions dropdown-lists of the search fields".</li></ul> <p>The search results page can open in a new tab. See <span class="example" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences" title="Special:Preferences">Preferences</a> → <a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets" title="Special:Preferences">Gadgets</a></span> <i>Browsing</i> There are also custom user-scripts to make all search results always open in a new tab. (See the scripts available in <i><a href="#See_also">See also</a></i>.) </p><p>To hide/opt-out the search results snippets from sister projects, go to <span class="example" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences" title="Special:Preferences">Preferences</a> → <a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets" title="Special:Preferences">Gadgets</a> → <a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets-gadget-section-appearance" title="Special:Preferences">Appearance</a></span> and see "Do not show search results for sister projects on the search results page". </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Tips_and_tricks" data-mw-thread-id="h-Tips_and_tricks"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Tips_and_tricks"></span>Tips and tricks<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Tips_and_tricks"></span></h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Searching_within_a_page" data-mw-thread-id="h-Searching_within_a_page-Tips_and_tricks"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Searching_within_a_page-Tips_and_tricks"></span>Searching within a page<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Searching_within_a_page-Tips_and_tricks"></span></h3></div> <p>The internal search engine cannot locate occurrences of a string within the page you are viewing but browsers can usually do this with <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868"><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">F</kbd>, or <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868"><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">⌘ Command</kbd>+<kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">F</kbd> on a Mac. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Searching_for_a_specific_person's_contributions" data-mw-thread-id="h-Searching_for_a_specific_person's_contributions-Tips_and_tricks"><span id="Searching_for_a_specific_person.27s_contributions"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Searching_for_a_specific_person's_contributions-Tips_and_tricks"></span>Searching for a specific person's contributions<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Searching_for_a_specific_person's_contributions-Tips_and_tricks"></span></h3></div> <p>Due to the way the wikimedia database is indexed, there's no direct way to search for something like <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">insource:foo author:person</kbd>. But, you can come close in some situations. If you're looking for something on a talk (or, sometimes, project) page, people tend to leave a signature after each edit, and such pages are usually set up so old edits roll off onto archive pages. In this case, the <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch#Words,_phrases,_and_modifiers" class="extiw" title="mw:Help:CirrusSearch">proximity search</a> operator can find instances of your search term near the user's name. Something like <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">foo person ~50</kbd> might find what you are looking for. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Search_Wikipedia_from_any_web_page" data-mw-thread-id="h-Search_Wikipedia_from_any_web_page-Tips_and_tricks"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Search_Wikipedia_from_any_web_page-Tips_and_tricks"></span>Search Wikipedia from any web page<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Search_Wikipedia_from_any_web_page-Tips_and_tricks"></span></h3></div> <p>To get Wikipedia search results while on any <i><a href="/wiki/Web_page" title="Web page">web page</a></i>, you can temporarily set your web browser's search box to become a Wikipedia search search box, even though you're on another web site <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033199720"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><span role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable crossreference selfref">(see <a href="/wiki/Help:Searching_from_a_web_browser" title="Help:Searching from a web browser">Help:Searching from a web browser</a>)</span>. This trick removes the need to first navigate to Wikipedia from a web page, and <em>then</em> do the search or navigation. It is a temporary change, and then you put it back to your preferred web-search engine. </p><p>You can just drag items on the page the name up to the web browser search box <em>while on any web site</em>, even in the lower sections of a Wikipedia page, where no search box is immediately available. </p><p>You can reach all twelve <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SISTER" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SISTER">sister projects</a> the same way by using interwiki prefixes in the web browser's search box. For example, you can go straight to a <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary" title="Wiktionary">Wiktionary</a> entry by using the prefix <code>wikt:</code> from your web-search box. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="SQL_searches_/_Quarry" data-mw-thread-id="h-SQL_searches_/_Quarry-Tips_and_tricks"><span id="SQL_searches_.2F_Quarry"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-SQL_searches_/_Quarry-Tips_and_tricks"></span>SQL searches / Quarry<span data-mw-comment-end="h-SQL_searches_/_Quarry-Tips_and_tricks"></span></h3></div> <p>The entire wikipedia database (with some redactions for privacy) is exposed for SQL queries at the experimental <a href="https://quarry.wmcloud.org/" class="extiw" title="quarry:">Quarry service</a>. Using this requires a high degree of technical skill; you must not only know SQL, but also be able to navigate the complex (and not always well documented) database schema. For those who are so equipped, it may provide another option for searches which would be impossible to do via the standard search interface. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Other_search_tools" data-mw-thread-id="h-Other_search_tools"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Other_search_tools"></span>Other search tools<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Other_search_tools"></span></h2></div> <p>Other search tools include: </p> <ul><li>Your own browser, to search the current page only. Try <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868"><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">F</kbd>, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868"><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">F3</kbd>, or <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868"><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">⌘ Command</kbd>+<kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">F</kbd>.</li> <li><a class="external free" href="https://www.wikipedia.org">https://www.wikipedia.org</a>, to search other language editions of Wikipedia.</li> <li>Search-related templates <div class="selfreference noprint"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033199720"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><span role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable crossreference selfref">See the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Nav_box" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Nav box">navigation box</a> below.)</span></div></li></ul> <p>Internal search tools: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources" title="Special:BookSources">ISBN</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex" title="Special:PrefixIndex">Prefix</a></li> <li>And many other <a href="/wiki/Special:SpecialPages" title="Special:SpecialPages">SpecialPages</a></li></ul> <p><span class="anchor" id="grep"></span> External tools dedicated to Wikipedia Database searches include: </p> <ul><li><b><a class="external text" href="https://grep.toolforge.org/index.php?lang=en&wiki=wikipedia&ns=0">Article title grep</a></b>: searches page titles using <a href="/wiki/Regular_expression" title="Regular expression">regular expressions</a>. This search is much slower than standard search. In particular this tool can search for exact <a href="/wiki/String_(computer_science)" title="String (computer science)">strings of characters</a>, including punctuation and with <a href="/wiki/Case_sensitivity" title="Case sensitivity">case sensitivity</a>. For example the pattern <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">\(& Co\. Ltd\.</kbd> will find only titles containing <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">(& Co. Ltd.</kbd> exactly as shown. Regular expressions are precisely defined, and not intuitively obvious.</li> <li><b><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://petscan.wmflabs.org/">PetScan</a></b>: about 20 search parameters, three for categories</li> <li><b><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://wikipedia.ramselehof.de/wikiblame.php">WikiBlame</a></b>: search for text in the revision history of a page</li> <li><b><a class="external text" href="https://sigma.toolforge.org/usersearch.py">User Contribution Search</a></b>: reports anyone's contributions to a page</li> <li><b><a href="https://iw.toolforge.org/sigma/summary.py" class="extiw" title="toolforge:sigma/summary.py">Edit summary search</a></b>: search for text in anyone's edit summaries</li> <li><b><a class="external text" href="https://whichsub.toolforge.org/">whichsub</a></b>: finds transcluded templates of a given page which contain a given string.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="If_you_cannot_find_what_you_are_looking_for" data-mw-thread-id="h-If_you_cannot_find_what_you_are_looking_for"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-If_you_cannot_find_what_you_are_looking_for"></span>If you cannot find what you are looking for<span data-mw-comment-end="h-If_you_cannot_find_what_you_are_looking_for"></span></h2></div> <p>If you're looking for a place where wine comes from pronounced "Bordo", you can try searching for a more general article such as "Wine", "Wine regions" (returning "List of wine-producing regions") or other wine types such as "Burgundy" and see if it's mentioned there or follow links (in this case, to "Burgundy wine", which has several mentions of "Bordeaux", and links to "French wine" and "Bordeaux wine"). If you know it's in France, look at "France" or the <a href="/wiki/Category:Cities_in_France" title="Category:Cities in France">Category:Cities in France</a>, from where you can easily find Bordeaux. You can try various things depending upon the particular case; for "Bordo" wine, it's quite likely that the first letters are "bord", so search an article you've landed on for these letters. If you <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Search_engine_test" title="Wikipedia:Search engine test">use Google to search Wikipedia</a>, and click on "cache" at the bottom of any result in the search engine results page, you'll see the word(s) that you searched for highlighted in context. </p><p><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033199720"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><span role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable crossreference selfref">(For an overview of how to find and navigate Wikipedia content, see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Contents" title="Wikipedia:Contents">Wikipedia:Contents</a>. If you're looking for a straight definition of a word, try our sister project <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary" title="Wiktionary">Wiktionary</a>.)</span> </p><p>If there is no appropriate page on Wikipedia, consider <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_start_a_page" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:How to start a page">creating a page</a>, since <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Introduction" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Introduction">you can edit</a> Wikipedia right now. Or consider adding what you were looking for to the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requested_articles" title="Wikipedia:Requested articles">Requested articles</a> page. </p><p>If you have a question, then see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Questions" title="Wikipedia:Questions">Where to ask questions</a>, which is a list of departments where our volunteers answer questions, any question you can possibly imagine. </p><p>A common mistake is to type a natural-language question into the search bar and expect an answer. While some Web search tools support this, the Wikipedia search is a text search only; questions, as such, can be asked at the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:REFDESK" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:REFDESK">reference desk</a> and similar places. A search for <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;">how do clocks work?</kbd> will return articles with the words <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">how</samp>, <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">do</samp>, <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">clocks</samp>, and <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">work</samp>, ignoring the question mark (in practice this can lead to articles answering simple questions). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Delay_in_updating_the_search_index" data-mw-thread-id="h-Delay_in_updating_the_search_index-If_you_cannot_find_what_you_are_looking_for"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Delay_in_updating_the_search_index-If_you_cannot_find_what_you_are_looking_for"></span>Delay in updating the search index<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Delay_in_updating_the_search_index-If_you_cannot_find_what_you_are_looking_for"></span></h3></div> <p><span class="anchor" id="Delay"></span> Because people like to see their work in search results, the search engine attempts to update in <a href="/wiki/Real-time_computing#Near_real-time" title="Real-time computing">near real-time</a>. Edits made to pages via templates can take a little longer to propagate. If you see the index lagging more than a day or so, <a href="https://diff.wikimedia.org/2013/03/18/how-to-create-a-good-first-bug-report/" class="extiw" title="wmfblog:2013/03/18/how-to-create-a-good-first-bug-report/">report it</a>. For other technical issues with the search engine, please leave a message on <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Searching" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia talk:Searching">the talk page</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Under_the_hood" data-mw-thread-id="h-Under_the_hood"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Under_the_hood"></span>Under the hood<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Under_the_hood"></span></h2></div> <p>To power its search feature, Wikipedia uses <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch" class="extiw" title="mw:Help:CirrusSearch">CirrusSearch</a>, a MediaWiki extension that uses <a href="/wiki/Elasticsearch" title="Elasticsearch">Elasticsearch</a> to provide enhanced search features. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Stem_matching" data-mw-thread-id="h-Stem_matching-Under_the_hood"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Stem_matching-Under_the_hood"></span>Stem matching<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Stem_matching-Under_the_hood"></span></h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="H:STEM"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=H:STEM&redirect=no">H:STEM</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>Search results will include the roots of words included in the search string, and their various tenses (plural, past-tense, etc.). If stem matching is not wanted, use double quotes around the word or phrase you want to match verbatim. Here are some examples: </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Query </th> <th>Description </th></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;"><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=stem+prefix%3AHelp%3ASearching&ns0=1&fulltext=Search">stem</a></span></kbd> </td> <td>Matches <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">stem</samp>, <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">stemming</samp>, <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">stems</samp>, etc. </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;"><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=cloud+prefix%3AHelp%3ASearching&ns0=1&fulltext=Search">cloud</a></span></kbd> </td> <td>Matches <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">cloud</samp>, <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">clouds</samp>, <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">clouding</samp>, or <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">clouded</samp>, etc., but not <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">cloudy</samp>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;"><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=%22stemming%22+prefix%3AHelp%3ASearching&ns0=1&fulltext=Search">"stemming"</a></span></kbd> </td> <td>Matches <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">stemming</samp> but not <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">stemmed</samp> or <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">stems</samp>, etc. </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239335663"><kbd class="mw-tmpl-kbd" style="letter-spacing:0.05em; padding-left:0.25em; padding-right:0.2em;"><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=%22clouds%22+prefix%3AHelp%3ASearching&ns0=1&fulltext=Search">"clouds"</a></span></kbd> </td> <td>Matches <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">clouds</samp> and <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">cloudsource</samp>, but not <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">clouding</samp>, or <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">cloud</samp>, etc. </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Custom_search_boxes" data-mw-thread-id="h-Custom_search_boxes"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Custom_search_boxes"></span>Custom search boxes<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Custom_search_boxes"></span></h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="H:CSB"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=H:CSB&redirect=no">H:CSB</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Template:Search_box" title="Template:Search box">Template:Search box</a></div> <p>Custom search boxes are made by <code class="nowrap" style=""><inputbox></code> tags. See <b><a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:InputBox" class="extiw" title="mw:Extension:InputBox">mw:Extension:InputBox</a></b> for more information. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Content_namespaces" data-mw-thread-id="h-Content_namespaces-Custom_search_boxes"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Content_namespaces-Custom_search_boxes"></span>Content namespaces<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Content_namespaces-Custom_search_boxes"></span></h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Special:Search" title="Special:Search">Special:Search</a></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Administration#Content_namespaces" title="Wikipedia:Administration">Content namespaces</a> are intended for use by readers as part of the encyclopedia. </p> <div class="mw-inputbox-centered" style=""><form name="searchbox" class="searchbox mw-inputbox-form" action="/wiki/Special:Search"><div class="cdx-text-input"><input class="mw-inputbox-input mw-searchInput searchboxInput cdx-text-input__input" name="search" placeholder="" size="55" dir="ltr"/></div><br/> <span class="cdx-checkbox cdx-checkbox--inline"><input type="checkbox" name="ns0" value="1" id="mw-inputbox-ns0-0.019312500668" class="cdx-checkbox__input" checked=""/><span class="cdx-checkbox__icon"></span><label class="cdx-checkbox__label" for="mw-inputbox-ns0-0.019312500668">Main</label></span> <span class="cdx-checkbox cdx-checkbox--inline"><input type="checkbox" name="ns100" value="1" id="mw-inputbox-ns100-0.019312500668" class="cdx-checkbox__input" checked=""/><span class="cdx-checkbox__icon"></span><label class="cdx-checkbox__label" for="mw-inputbox-ns100-0.019312500668">Portal</label></span> <span class="cdx-checkbox cdx-checkbox--inline"><input type="checkbox" name="ns14" value="1" id="mw-inputbox-ns14-0.019312500668" class="cdx-checkbox__input" checked=""/><span class="cdx-checkbox__icon"></span><label class="cdx-checkbox__label" for="mw-inputbox-ns14-0.019312500668">Category</label></span> <br/><input type="submit" name="fulltext" value="Search" class="cdx-button"/></form></div> <p><br/> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Administrative_namespaces" data-mw-thread-id="h-Administrative_namespaces-Custom_search_boxes"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Administrative_namespaces-Custom_search_boxes"></span>Administrative namespaces<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Administrative_namespaces-Custom_search_boxes"></span></h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Template:Editor_search_boxes" title="Template:Editor search boxes">Template:Editor search boxes</a> and <a href="/wiki/Template:Search_prefixes" title="Template:Search prefixes">Template:Search prefixes</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines#Finding_policies_and_guidelines" title="Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines">Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines § Finding policies and guidelines</a></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ADMINPS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ADMINPS">Administrative namespaces</a> are intended for use by editors or by automated tools for the administration and governance of the encyclopedia. </p> <div class="mw-inputbox-centered" style=""><form name="searchbox" class="searchbox mw-inputbox-form" action="/wiki/Special:Search"><div class="cdx-text-input"><input class="mw-inputbox-input mw-searchInput searchboxInput cdx-text-input__input" name="search" placeholder="" size="55" dir="ltr"/></div><br/> <span class="cdx-checkbox cdx-checkbox--inline"><input type="checkbox" name="ns4" value="1" id="mw-inputbox-ns4-0.358647300528" class="cdx-checkbox__input" checked=""/><span class="cdx-checkbox__icon"></span><label class="cdx-checkbox__label" for="mw-inputbox-ns4-0.358647300528">Wikipedia</label></span> <span class="cdx-checkbox cdx-checkbox--inline"><input type="checkbox" name="ns12" value="1" id="mw-inputbox-ns12-0.358647300528" class="cdx-checkbox__input" checked=""/><span class="cdx-checkbox__icon"></span><label class="cdx-checkbox__label" for="mw-inputbox-ns12-0.358647300528">Help</label></span> <span class="cdx-checkbox cdx-checkbox--inline"><input type="checkbox" name="ns10" value="1" id="mw-inputbox-ns10-0.358647300528" class="cdx-checkbox__input" checked=""/><span class="cdx-checkbox__icon"></span><label class="cdx-checkbox__label" for="mw-inputbox-ns10-0.358647300528">Template</label></span> <br/><input type="submit" name="fulltext" value="Search" class="cdx-button"/></form></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="See_also" data-mw-thread-id="h-See_also"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-See_also"></span>See also<span data-mw-comment-end="h-See_also"></span></h2></div> <div style="margin:.1em; float:right; border: 1px solid #aaa; padding: 2px; background-color:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle, #f8f9fa); color:inherit;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_desk" title="Wikipedia:Help desk"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e0/Symbol_question.svg/20px-Symbol_question.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="21" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e0/Symbol_question.svg/30px-Symbol_question.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e0/Symbol_question.svg/40px-Symbol_question.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185"/></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_desk" title="Wikipedia:Help desk">Help desk</a></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Navigation#Using_the_search_box_to_navigate" title="Help:Navigation">Help:Navigation § Using the search box to navigate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Searching_from_a_web_browser" title="Help:Searching from a web browser">Help:Searching from a web browser</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Searching/Features" title="Help:Searching/Features">Help:Searching/Features</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Searching/feedback" title="Help:Searching/feedback">Help:Searching/feedback</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search" class="extiw" title="mediawikiwiki:Search">MediaWikiWiki:Search</a></li> <li><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Searching" class="extiw" title="meta:Help:Searching">Meta:Help:Searching</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch" class="extiw" title="mw:Help:CirrusSearch">mw:Help:CirrusSearch</a> <ul><li><a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:WikibaseCirrusSearch" class="extiw" title="mw:Help:Extension:WikibaseCirrusSearch">mw:Help:Extension:WikibaseCirrusSearch</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Search_engine_test" title="Wikipedia:Search engine test">Wikipedia:Search engine test</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_User_scripts/Scripts#Search" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts">Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts § Search</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/User_talk:The_Transhumanist/SearchSuite.js" title="User talk:The Transhumanist/SearchSuite.js">SearchSuite</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Overreliance_upon_Google" title="Wikipedia:Overreliance upon Google">Wikipedia:Overreliance upon Google</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_name_search" title="Wikipedia:Article name search">Wikipedia:Article name search</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:External_search_engines" title="Wikipedia:External search engines">Wikipedia:External search engines</a></li> <li><a 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