Template:Internal search templates common doc

Search links
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. So this search link will (1) navigate: [ [Special:search/Wales]] &rarr; Special:search/Wales or (2) search: [ [Special:search/~Wales &rarr; 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 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 &rarr;.
 * Regex – develop an advanced regex search. { {regex | \<--.*--> | label = Articles with comments missing the ! bang character | prefix=0}} &rarr;
 * Template usage – develop a template regex search, and pinpoint specific template-call details. { {Template usage | Convert | \|C\|F | 0 | Articles that convert Celsius to Fahrenheit}} &rarr;
 * ShortSearch – create three search links: { {ShortSearch | system operations research}} &rarr; (search Wikipedia, "Google" Wikipedia, and Google search)
 * wpsearch – create five search links: &rarr;
 * Wikidata search link – creates a Wikidata search link for descriptions, entities, items, properties, etc. &rarr;

Search boxes
Search boxes are made by tags. See mw:Extension:InputBox.
 * Search box – Simple search box with choice of button below or to the right
 * Search prefixes – Multiple pages' subpages are searched at once.
 * Archive banner – For searching archives. It is of banner-style, like many other archive templates.

Page title searches
For searches with exact matches, exact in upper and lower cases, or in punctuation marks, see.
 * 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

Other Wikipedia editor help

 * Linksearch – Searches for external links matching a URL
 * – External tool to find page titles containing a  in parentheses; useful for disambiguation study
 * Help desk searches – Navbox with list of links to Google pages, specialized to search for example user pages, village pump, etc.; useful for Help desk tasks
 * Spamsearch – Searches user pages for common spams, e.g. "we service", "leading manufacturer", etc.

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Description of this template
This template is transcluded into the documentation pages of some templates. You can modify the section with the following parameters:
 * : Items to be added to.
 * : Changes the section altogether.

Example 1:

Example 2: This will delete the "See also" section.