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Help:Searching in the TypeCraft Wiki

Revision as of 20:47, 10 October 2014 by Dorothee Beermann (Talk | contribs) (Syntax)

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

Also the TypeCraft wiki supports 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).


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, "noun classes" where the space between "noun" and "class" counts as a character. This is different from noun classes where the space between "noun" and "classes" is interpreted as a logical AND.


Exclusion T erms can be excluded by prefixing a hyphen or dash (-), which, as mentioned above, is "logical not". Br For example: -"Brazilian Portuguese" finds all articles with "Brazilian" and "Portuguese" except those with the phrase "Brazilian Portuguese".

Wildcard search

A wildcard character *, standing for any length of character-string can prefix or suffix a word or string. : the query *stan lists articles containing wprds like Kazakhstan and Afghanistan, while Anno* will list pages with words like: "annotation", "annotating" and "annotator".