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A Wikipedia namespace is a set of Wikipedia pages whose names begin with a particular reserved word recognized by the MediaWiki software (followed by a colon). For example, in the user namespace all titles begin with the prefix User:. In the case of the article (or main) namespace, in which encyclopedia articles appear, the reserved word and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The namespace can be an namespace alias, like WP for Wikipedia. A space between the namespace and pagename is allowed. The namespace for prefix defaults to article space. Prefix will not match a redirect. (But see Special:PrefixIndex.) Prefix cannot be used as a filter: the dash of -prefix is ignored. -prefix:WP: ab only sets the search domain ...
The user must then type search keywords to the left of the prefix= string in the form. [1] Because the resulting search form is somewhat clumsy for a novice user to ...
For a page on how to use Wikipedia in bite-sized morsels, see Wikipedia:Tips; For advice on writing style and formatting in a bullet-point format, see Wikipedia:Styletips; For summaries of some Wikipedia protocols and conventions, see Wikipedia:Dos and don'ts; If you don't want to use wikitext markup, try Wikipedia:VisualEditor instead
1 2 User: User talk 3 4 Wikipedia: Wikipedia talk 5 6 File: File talk 7 8 MediaWiki: MediaWiki talk 9 10 Template: Template talk 11 12 Help: Help talk 13 14 Category: Category talk 15 100 Portal: Portal talk 101 118 Draft: Draft talk 119 126 MOS: MOS talk 127 710 TimedText: TimedText talk 711 828 Module: Module talk 829 Former namespaces; 108 ...