Editing Help:Searching

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{{#ifeq:MediaWiki|{{SITENAME}}|{{Warning|1=<translate><!--T:19--> Go to <tvar|help>''{{ll|Help:CirrusSearch}}''</> for help searching this site.</translate> <translate><!--T:20--> This page, <tvar|help>'''''Help:Searching'''''</>, is here to document sites using the core (no Search extension) MediaWiki installation.</translate>}}}}

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The quickest way to find information in {{SITENAME}} is to look it up directly. On every page there is a '''<tvar|search>{{lcfirst:{{int|search}}}}</>''' box.

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Enter key words and phrases and press ''Enter'' or ''Return'' or click the magnifying glass icon or Search or Go button.
If a page has the same title as what you entered (or you use the Go button) you jump straight to that page.<tvar|discuss>{{dubious|Search for exact page name still brings up search result, not the page}}</> 
Otherwise, it searches all pages on the wiki (with some restrictions, see below), and presents a list of articles that matched your search terms, or a message informing you that no page has all the key words and phrases.

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* It searches all pages on the wiki with some restrictions.
* 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 "<tvar|edit>{{lcfirst:{{int|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 search functionality can be considered to operate on '''whole words''', separated by spaces or other punctuation marks.  So if your search term includes the word 'book', the results will not include pages that only have the word 'books' or 'booklet'.  And if your search term includes the term 'inter', the results will not include pages that only have the word 'international', but they may include pages that have the term 'inter-national'.
* The results will only include pages that contain '''all''' the words in your search.
* You can search for a phrase using double quotes.  A phrase can be considered to consist of '''whole words''' (case-insensitive), so the phrase 'Prime Minister' will '''not''' be found by a search for "ime Min", but it '''will''' be found by a search for "pRIME mINISTER".

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If you click the "<tvar|search>{{int|searchbutton}}</>" 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 [[<tvar|help-ns>Special:MyLanguage/Help:Namespaces</>|namespace]] e.g., only search within the <tvar|ns2>{{ns:2}}</> pages. Check the namespaces you require for this search. 

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By default only the namespaces specified in your [[<tvar|help-prefs>Special:MyLanguage/Help:Preferences</>|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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