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imported>Huston: Adding search to firefox

2007-05-18T17:49:19Z

Adding search to firefox

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

			== Firefox searching ==
			If you use Mozilla [[Firefox]], while on any page of the wiki you'll notice that the search box (next to where you enter a URL) is highlighted in some way. If you click on the search engine button (by default, Google) a drop-down list will appear and you can add this wiki to your search engines. Then you can simply select this wiki as an engine and type your search criteria in to search the wiki as you would from the box on the left of the page, without having to come to the page first.

imported>Huston at 16:00, 18 May 2007

2007-05-18T16:00:51Z

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	== Restricting the search ==		== Restricting the 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, or if you just want to specify different namespaces for a single search then you can do so on the search results page.		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, or if you just want to specify different namespaces for a single search then you can do so on the search results page.

imported>Huston at 19:15, 17 May 2007

2007-05-17T19:15:14Z

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	~~{{PD Help Page}}~~
	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".		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".

imported>Huston at 19:11, 17 May 2007

2007-05-17T19:11:37Z

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	~~{{Languages\|Help:Searching}}~~
	[[Category:Help\|Searching]]		[[Category:Help\|Searching]]

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2007-05-14T17:54:56Z

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200.159.74.36 at 22:17, 11 April 2007

2007-04-11T22:17:26Z

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{{PD Help Page}}
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".

<div style="border:1px solid #ababff; background: #fdfdff; padding: 1em; margin: 1.1em 1em 1em 0em; font-size:105%">
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">'''Search'''</font> - will search the text of all pages on the wiki (with some restrictions, see below).
</div>

If you clicked 'search', or you clicked 'go' 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:

* Only the article content is searched - the page title is ignored.
* 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.
* 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 ==
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, or if you just want to specify different namespaces for a single search then you can do so on the search results page.

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