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The link Special:Search, which can be inserted onto user pages or project pages, for example, also leads to the search page. While the entire contents of the search page is included in the search results page, it is a distinct page. User scripts might be designed to work on the search results page but not the search page, for example.
Click on "Look up this word in Wiktionary" and instantly view the page in Wiktionary. Edit articles to remove vandalism or errors. Install to a flash memory card for portability to other machines. Run on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. View the HTML for any wiki page. Search for any page by title using a Wikipedia-like Search box.
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. 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 ...
Pages with namespaces outnumber pages without them 7 to 1. On the search bar at the search results page Everything searches all, plus Commons and the File namespace. Advanced when All (namespaces) is checked is equivalent to Everything. Multimedia searches the File and Media namespaces on the local wiki plus Commons.
Click on the IP address where it appears on your watchlist, in Recent changes or in Page history. Put the IP address in the search box and press Go. If the user is currently blocked, a notice will be displayed at the very top of the contributions screen, like this example.
A URL can for example can call off-site search engines to search Wikipedia. {{Search link}} offers all the capabilities of Searching (search box), plus extra (URL) parameters for combinations of namespaces, and where you can escape the 20-results-per page-limitation, shareable: {{search link | et al | ''label'' | ns4 | ns5 | limit = 123}} →
Special:Linksearch is a special page which searches for external links in Wikipedia. It provides a list of external links (in all namespaces) whose target URL starts with the given URL pattern. For each link the page in which it is found is listed, along with the exact target URL of the link on that page.
Help menu – main menu-style help page (old format used on the Help:Contents page). Navigating Wikipedia – a list of help pages for reading the encyclopedia and navigating the site. Joining Wikipedia – a list of basic introductions about how to get started. Editing Wikipedia – a list of general help pages for editors.