Template:Search/doc

Template page

Usage of this template and related alternatives

Template for creating a list of URLs searching for the same string

This page's template creates a short, parenthetical list of abbreviated external links to different searchable locations for the same search string. This could be useful on a talk page to encourage researching a topic from a variety of sources.

For example:

{{Search|Alarm clock|long=y}}

produces the following list of links to various searches for Alarm clock (hover over a link for a tooltip showing the search link's title):

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The abbreviations stand for:

For an abbreviated list of links, omit the |long=y parameter.

Templates for searching OODA WIKI

Search links

A search link stores a query in a link that takes you to live search results for that stored search. They're found on user pages and talk pages. Use one to bring the full feature set of MediaWiki Search, or features of external search engines, to bear on users unfamiliar with their search parameters.

One type of search link is a wikilink with all the capabilities of Search (search box), and with standard wikilink syntax: [[Special:Search/query| label]]. So this search link will (1) navigate: [[Special:search/Wales]] → Special:search/Wales or (2) search: [[Special:search/~Wales | search/~Wales]]search/~Wales if you prefix a ~ tilde character.

All other search links are made from a template that will build a URL instead of wikilink. A URL can for example can call off-site search engines to search OODA WIKI.

  • {{Search link}} offers all the capabilities of Searching (search box), plus extra (URL) parameters for combinations of namespaces, and where you can escape the 20-results-per page-limitation, shareable: {{search link | et al | ''label'' | ns4 | ns5 | limit = 123}} label.
  • {{Regex}} – develop an advanced regex search. {{regex | \<--.*--> | label = Articles with comments missing the ! bang character | prefix=0}}Articles with comments missing the ! bang character
  • {{Template usage}} – develop a template regex search, and pinpoint specific template-call details. {{Template usage | Convert | \{{!}}C\{{!}}F | 0 | Articles that convert Celsius to Fahrenheit}}Articles that convert Celsius to Fahrenheit
  • {{ShortSearch}} – create three search links: {{ShortSearch | system operations research}}
  1. REDIRECT Target page name

WP GWP G (search OODA WIKI, "Google" OODA WIKI, and Google search)

Search boxes

Search boxes are made by ‎<inputbox> tags. See mw:Extension:InputBox.

Page title searches

  • {{Canned search}} – Link to automated search results for a given term
  • {{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 OODA WIKI editor help

See also