Template:Internal search templates common doc
Templates to search Wikipedia
Fulltext search links
- {{Search link}}: Make a link for Wikipedia's search page. Example:
{{search link|tosa dairy|pages with the phrase "tosa diary"}}creates pages with the phrase "tosa diary". - {{shortSearch}}, {{wpsearch}}: Create links also to google.
Search boxes
- {{search box}}: Simple search box with choice of button below or to the right.
- {{search prefixes}}: Multiple pages' subpages are searched at once.
- {{search archives}} and {{archive banner}}: For searching archives. The latter, {{archive banner}} is of banner-style, like many other archive templates.
Search boxes are made by <inputbox> tags. See mw:Extension:InputBox.
Page title searches
- {{in title}}: Search for pages whose name contains given words.
- {{look from}}: Search for pages whose name begins with a given word.
For searches with exact matches, exact in upper and lower cases, or in punctuation marks, see Help:Searching#grep.
Other Wikipedia editor helper
- {{linksearch}}: Search for external links matching for a URL.
- {{search deletion discussions}}: Search box for all kinds of deletion discussions.
- {{dabsearch}}: Find page titles containing (any word), including the parentheses. Useful for Wikipedia:disambiguation study.
- {{Help desk searches}}: List of links to google pages, specialized to search for example user pages, village pump, etc. Useful for the Wikipedia:help desk task.
- {{spamsearch}}: Searches user pages for common spams, e.g. "we service", "leading manufacturer" etc.
See also
(Hereafter is put in <noinclude>...</noinclude>.)
Description of this template
This template is transcluded into documentations of some templates. You can modify the #See also section with the following parameters:
append: Items to be added to.seealso: Changes the section altogether.
Example 1: {{Internal search templates common doc|append=
* Help:Searching
* Help:Template}}
Example 2: {{internal search templates common doc|seealso=}}
This will delete the "See also" section.