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The quickest way to find information in MediaWiki is to look it up directly. In the top right of your screen there is a search box with two buttons under it labeled "Go" and "Search".
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The easiest way to find information in this help is to look it up directly. In the top right of your screen there is a search box with two buttons under it labeled "Go" and "Search".
Put your keyword in the searchbox.
Put your keyword in the searchbox.
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Go - (or Enter on keyboard) will take you automatically to the article, if it exists.
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* '''Go''' - (or Enter on keyboard) will take you automatically to the article, if it exists.
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Search - will search the text of all pages on the wiki (with some restrictions, see below).
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* '''Search''' - will search the text of all pages on the wiki (with some restrictions, see below).
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If you clicked “Go”, or you clicked “Search” and the page you were looking for did not exist, you will be presented with a list of articles that matched your search criteria (or a message that no matches were found).
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If you clicked '''Go''', or you clicked '''Search''' and the page you were looking for did not exist, you will be presented with a list of articles that matched your search criteria (or a message that no matches were found).
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[edit] How it works
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====How it works====
Here's how the search works:
Here's how the search works:
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The article content is searched in its raw (wikitext) form - i.e., it searches the text that appears in the edit box when you click “edit”, not the rendered page. This means that content coming from an included template will not be picked up, but the target of piped links will be.
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The article content is searched in its raw form - i.e., it searches the text that appears in the edit box when you click '''edit''', not the rendered page. This means that content coming from an included template will not be picked up, but the target of piped links will be.
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Even if you enclose a phrase in quotes, the search looks for each word individually. e.g., if you enter "world war 2" it will return pages that contain "world" and "war" and "2".
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Even if you enclose a phrase in quotes, the search looks for each word individually. e.g., if you enter '''disclosure documents''' it will return pages that contain '''disclosure''' and '''documents'''.
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The search is not case-sensitive, so "MediaWiki", "mediawiki" and "MEDIAWIKI" all give the same result.
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The search is not case-sensitive, so '''disclosure documents''', '''DISCLOSURE DOCUMENTS''' and '''Disclosure Documents'''" all give the same result.
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Restricting the search
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If you click the “Search” button without filling in anything, you will be taken to “Special:Search” which gives you extra searching options (also available from any search results list)
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You may find it useful to restrict a search to pages within a particular namespace e.g., only search within the User pages. Check the namespaces you require for this search.
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By default only the namespaces specified in your preferences will be searched. Logged-in users can change their preferences to specify the namespaces they want to search by default. This can be done by selecting and deselecting boxes in the ”search” section of user preferences.
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Revision as of 00:59, 20 June 2011

The easiest way to find information in this help is to look it up directly. In the top right of your screen there is a search box with two buttons under it labeled "Go" and "Search".

Put your keyword in the searchbox.

  • Go - (or Enter on keyboard) will take you automatically to the article, if it exists.
  • Search - will search the text of all pages on the wiki (with some restrictions, see below).

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

How it works

Here's how the search works:

The article content is searched in its raw form - i.e., it searches the text that appears in the edit box when you click edit, not the rendered page. This means that content coming from an included template will not be picked up, but the target of piped links will be. Even if you enclose a phrase in quotes, the search looks for each word individually. e.g., if you enter disclosure documents it will return pages that contain disclosure and documents. The search is not case-sensitive, so disclosure documents, DISCLOSURE DOCUMENTS and Disclosure Documents" all give the same result.

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