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To add this navigation box to a page, add the following to the page's wikitext:
{{
search templates
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Templates for searching Wikipedia
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Search links
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A
search link
stores a query in a link that takes you to live search results for that stored search. They're found on user pages and talk pages. Use one to bring the full feature set of MediaWiki Search, or features of external search engines, to bear on users unfamiliar with their search parameters.
One type of search link is a wikilink with all the capabilities of Search (search box), and with standard wikilink syntax:
[[Special:Search/
query
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label
]]
. So this search link will (1)
navigate
: [[Special:search/Wales]] →
Special:search/Wales
or (2) search:
[[Special:search/~Wales | search/~Wales]]
→
search/~Wales
if you prefix a ~ tilde character.
All other search links are made from a
template
that will build a URL instead of wikilink. A URL can for example can call off-site search engines to search Wikipedia.
- {{
Search link
}}
offers all the capabilities of
Searching
(search box), plus extra (URL) parameters for combinations of namespaces, and where you can escape the 20-results-per page-limitation, shareable:
{{search link | et al | ''label'' | ns4 | ns5 | limit = 123}}
→
label
.
- {{
Regex
}}
? develop an advanced regex search.
{{regex | \<--.*--> | label = Articles with comments missing the ! bang character | prefix=0}}
→
Articles with comments missing the ! bang character
- {{
Template usage
}}
? develop a
template
regex search, and pinpoint specific template-call details.
{{Template usage | Convert | \{{!}}C\{{!}}F | 0 | Articles that convert Celsius to Fahrenheit}}
→
Articles that convert Celsius to Fahrenheit
- {{
ShortSearch
}}
? create three search links:
{{ShortSearch | system operations research}}
→
WP
GWP
G
(search Wikipedia, "Google" Wikipedia, and Google search)
- {{
wpsearch
}}
? create five search links:
{{wpsearch|collaborative search}}
→
collaborative search
–
Wikipedia search
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Google search
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Bing search
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DuckDuckGo search
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Yahoo search
- {{
Wikidata search link
}}
? creates a
Wikidata
search link for descriptions, entities, items, properties, etc. →
https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Universe&title=Special:Search&fulltext=1
Search boxes
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Search boxes are made by
<inputbox>
tags. See
mw:Extension:InputBox
.
Page title searches
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- {{
Canned search
}}
? Link to automated search results for a given term
- {{
In title
}}
? Search for pages whose name
contains
given words
- {{
Look from
}}
? Search for pages whose name
begins
with a given word
For searches with exact matches, exact in upper and lower cases, or in punctuation marks, see
Help:Searching § grep
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Other Wikipedia editor help
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See also