Help:Searching in the TypeCraft Wiki
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The TypeCraft wiki has, like any mediawiki, a search box, which you find on the navigation bar. You can type search terms into the search box and then choose *SELECT* and a search results page will open.
If there is no result or the result is not useful, you still can use the Search page area called "Advanced" to specify the search domain. A mediawiki calls collections of wiki pagers namespaces. You could also go to your user preferences page in order to tell the TypeCraft wiki in which namespaces you would like to search when using the wiki search box.
Search results page
The intent of the search results page is to use the newly placed search box to refine a list of results. You do this by writing query commands into the search box. For example, if you want to see more terms highlighted use "OR", and if you want to see all pages with the terms "language" and "annotation, write "language AND annotation"
Other uses
To get Wikipedia search results while on any web page, you can temporarily set your browser's (web-based) search box to interface the Wikipedia search engine and land on Wikipedia's search results page; see Help:Searching from a web browser. This trick removes the need to first navigate to Wikipedia from a web page, and then do the search or navigation. It is a temporary change, and then you put it back to your preferred web-search engine.
Say while on some web page, you decide to research, at Wikipedia, material on that web page. You change your web-search box to "Wikipedia (en)", and enter the page name or the query while on that web page. The other example is that you decide to contribute information from the web to Wikipedia. Furthermore, you can reach all twelve sister projects the same way. For example, you can go straight to a Wiktionary entry by using the prefix wikt: from your web-search box.
User preferences
The search results page can open in a new tab. If your browser does not already have the manual ability to open any linked page in a new tab when you press and hold the Ctrl-key (PC) or Template:Cmd-key (Mac), this functionality can be enabled at Template:Myprefs in the Browsing section. There are also custom user-scripts to make all search results always open in a new tab. (See the scripts available in See also.)
If you create an account you can visit your Special:Preferences page (requires JavaScript) to set up:
- to search Wikipedia with your own search engine to see its search results (Template:Myprefs under Appearance)
- to widen the search box (Template:Myprefs under Appearance)
- to disable the quasi-search results that drop down from the search box while you type (Template:Myprefs under Appearance)
- to enable wildcard prefix searches, e.g., "Splark*" (Template:Myprefs under Advanced)
Syntax
Phrases in double quotes – A phrase can be found by enclosing it in double quotes, "like this". Double quotes can define a single search term that contains spaces. For example, "holly dolly" where the space is a character, differs much from holly dolly where the space is interpreted as a logical AND.
Boolean search – All major search engines support the "-" character for "logical not", the AND, the OR, and the grouping parenthesis. Logical OR can be specified by spelling it out (in capital letters); the AND operator is assumed for all terms (separated by spaces), but spelling out AND is equivalent. Parentheses are a necessary feature because (blue OR red) AND green differs from blue OR (red AND green).
Exclusion – Terms can be excluded by prefixing a hyphen or dash (-), which is "logical not". For example while -refining -unwanted search results. For example credit card -"credit card" finds all articles with credit and card except those with the phrase "credit card".
Wildcard search – A wildcard character *, standing for any length of character-string can prefix or suffix a word or string: *like will return "childlike" and "dream-like"; this*, returns results like "thistle". For example, the query *stan lists articles like Kazakhstan and Afghanistan.