Help:Searching

Search and Go

On the left-hand side of your screen, in the Sidebar, there is a Search box with two buttons under it labeled "Go" and "Search".

Put your keyword, page title or search terms in the searchbox.

• Go - (or Enter on keyboard) will take you automatically to the article, if it exists. If it does not exist, you will be presented with a list of articles that matched your search terms (if any exist).
• Search - will search the text of all pages on the wiki (with some restrictions, see below).

How it works

Here's how the search works:

• The article content is searched in its raw (wikitext) form - i.e. it searches the text that appears in the transcription box when you click 'edit', not the rendered page.
• 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".
• The search is not case-sensitive, so "MediaWiki", "mediawiki" and "MEDIAWIKI" all give the same result.

Restricting the search

If you are searching for a particular page on the Mediawiki, 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, or if you just want to specify different namespaces for a single search then you can do so on the search results page.