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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. 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.
For example: Articles with H.M.S. in their title that have not been edited for 12 months. Redirects with fewer than 20 incoming links that redirect to categories; All red links on pages within the scope of a particular WikiProject; Many simple queries can be run directly using the tools built into the MediaWiki package used by
Example: using logging_userindex instead of logging. Sub-views - The replica databases (used by Quarry) have copies of certain tables that omit unnecessary rows. Look into using these tables instead of the main table when joining certain tables, to speed up your queries. Example: When joining actor and recentchanges, use actor_recentchanges.
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.
Wikiversity - sister project that provides information on most academic subjects; Footnote - historic documents through their partnerships with The National Archives, the Library of Congress and other institutions (partly free) Google Scholar - provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature
Lists are less certain; there's no Category:All list pages.I could try to count pages that are in any category starting with "Lists " or ending with " lists", but - not having done that before - don't have any idea how many it would miss, and how many it would miscount.
author-link works either with author or with last & first to link to the appropriate wikipedia article. Does not work with URLs. author2, or last2 & first2: allows additional authors; author2-link and author-last2: allow links to Wikipedia pages for additional authors; url: Link to the news item if available online format: Format, i.e. PDF. Don ...
Wikipedia is now ubiquitous—a free-content encyclopedia available online, covering millions of topics in up to 280 languages. It is one of the most high-profile examples of user-generated content, and by far the most heavily used non-commercial internet site—it and its sister projects collectively have a hundred thousand active contributors, five hundred million readers, and twenty billion ...