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− | The quickest way to find information in MediaWiki is to look it up directly. On the left-hand side of your screen there is a '''Search''' box with two buttons under it labeled "Go" and "Search". | + | {{PD Help Page}} |
− | <div style="border:1px solid # | + | The quickest way to find information in MediaWiki is to look it up directly. On the left-hand side of your screen there is a '''Search''' box with two buttons under it labeled "Go" and "Search". |
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Put your keyword in the searchbox. | Put your keyword in the searchbox. | ||
* <font face="MS Sans Serif,Arial">'''Go'''</font> - (or ''Enter'' on keyboard) will take you automatically to the article, if it exists. | * <font face="MS Sans Serif,Arial">'''Go'''</font> - (or ''Enter'' on keyboard) will take you automatically to the article, if it exists. | ||
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== Restricting the search == | == Restricting the search == | ||
− | + | 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) | |
+ | You may find it useful to restrict a search to pages within a particular [[Help:Namespaces|namespace]] e.g. only search within the 'Talk' pages. Tick the namespaces you require for this search. | ||
+ | By default only the [[Help:Namespaces|namespaces]] specified in your [[Help:Preferences|preferences]] will be searched. Logged-in users can change their preferences to specify the namespaces they want to search by default. | ||
+ | ==External links== | ||
+ | {{meta|Help:Searching}} | ||
__NOTOC__ | __NOTOC__ | ||
− | + | {{Languages|Help:Searching}} | |
[[Category:Help|Searching]] | [[Category:Help|Searching]] | ||
+ | [[Category:Search]] |