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In a query, local: only has an effect following the File namespace file:local. 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.
Wikipedia has many talk pages (a.k.a. discussion pages) and other project pages that behave similarly (such as the Help desk, the Village pump, the Reference desk, as well as announcement pages such as the Signpost).
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 get Wikipedia search results while on any web page, you can temporarily set your web browser's search box to become a Wikipedia search search box, even though you're on another web site (see Help:Searching from a web browser). This trick removes the need to first navigate to Wikipedia from a web page, and then do the search or navigation. It ...
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.
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. These differ from namespace "all" by matching your search terms inside a pdf on a help:file page, that item on the search results ...
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.
Also, if anchor names have multiple components, it is useful to put the most significant component first, e.g. if anchors indicate months or dates, we could have the format YYYY-MM, or YYYY-MM-DD, or in a year page MM-DD (see also Calendar date#Big endian forms, starting with the year), with leading zeros (see also Help:Date formatting and ...