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Help:Searching
The quickest way to find information in MediaWiki is to look it up directly.
On the search bar, there is a Search box. You can enter the text of your search in that box and then press return.
If 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), or the option to create the page.
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How it works
Here's how the search works:
- 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.
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Restricting the search
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.
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