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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" y create an account|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.