WikiCODOPN:Searching
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This article provides a detailed overview of WikiCODOPN's search feature. For a short introduction to searching WikiCODOPN, see Look it up.
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[edit] WikiCODOPN search
Put your keyword in the searchbox.
- Go - (or Enter on keyboard) will take you automatically to the article.
- Search - will return a list of articles.
[edit] Effective searching
Here are some really good tips and hints for using the WikiCODOPN search feature effectively:
[edit] Avoid short and common words
If your search terms include a common "stop word" (such as "the", "one", "your", "more", "right", "while", "when", "who", "which", "such", "every", "about") it may give a large number of non-relevant results.
[edit] Wildcards
You can use some limited wildcards if you really want to. See Boolean fulltext search for details on their use. However, wildcard searches are slower, so go easy on the poor server.
[edit] Words in single quotes
If a word appears in an article with single quotes, you can only find it if you search for the word with quotes. Since this is rarely desirable, it is better to use double quotes in articles for which this problem does not arise. See the manual of style for more info.
An apostrophe is identical to a single quote, therefore the name Mu'ammar can be found only by searching for exactly that (and not otherwise). A word with 's is an exception in that it can be found also by searching for the word without the apostrophe and the s.
[edit] Namespaces searched by default
The search only applies to the namespaces selected in the user's preferences. To search the other namespaces check or uncheck the tickboxes in "Search in namespaces" box found at the bottom of a search results page. Depending on the browser, a box may still be checked from a previous search, but without being effective any longer! To make sure, uncheck and recheck it.
Searching the image namespace means searching the image descriptions, i.e. the first parts of the image description pages.
[edit] The source text is searched
The source text (what one sees in the edit box, also called wiki text) is searched.
[edit] Browser specific help
[edit] Searching with bookmarklets
Javascript can bring additional functionality to your bookmark. The following javascript can be pasted in as the 'Location' of a new bookmark created manually, for example in the 'Manage Bookmarks' window of Firefox. If you highlight a word in a webpage then hit the new bookmark, javascript grabs the word you have selected and uses that to perform the search. If no word is highlighted, you will be prompted to enter one.
javascript:x=escape(getSelection());if(!x)%7Bvoid(x=prompt('Enter%20Word:',''))%7D;if(x)window. location='http://www.codopcampaign.org/wiki2/index.php/Special:Search?search='+x
The whole thing should be pasted in as a single line without spaces for it to work.
[edit] If you cannot find an appropriate page on WikiCODOPN
If there is no appropriate page on WikiCODOPN, consider creating a page, since you can edit WikiCODOPN right now. Or consider adding what you were looking for to the Requested articles page. Or if you have a question, then see Where to ask questions, which is a list of departments where our volunteers answer questions, any question you can possibly imagine.
