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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. | 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% | <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. | 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. | ||
* font face=MS Sans Serif,Arial'''Search'''/font - will search the text of all pages on the wiki (with some restrictions, see below). | * <font face=MS Sans Serif,Arial>'''Search'''</font> - will search the text of all pages on the wiki (with some restrictions, see below). | ||
/div | </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). | 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). | ||
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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. | ||
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[[Category:Help|Searching]] | [[Category:Help|Searching]] | ||