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Usage

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This template creates a link that can be used to store a Wikidata search box query. A search link is useful for collaborative search on Talk pages and most other pages, but it is not to be used in articles.

{{Wikidata search link|Aaadonta angaurana}} →  https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Aaadonta+angaurana&title=Special:Search&fulltext=1

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Templates for searching Wikipedia

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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 Wikipedia.

Search boxes

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

Page title searches

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  • {{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 Wikipedia editor help

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