CGWiki:Searching
Template:ShortcutTemplate:HelpTOC This article provides an overview of Wikipedia's search feature, as well as using external search engines, such as Google, to find information.
CGWiki search
Put your text in the searchbox; it provides an input field with two buttons: dia in English only.
- Search and Cluster English Wikipedia with Clusty
- Go - the Go button (or Enter on the keyboard), will take you automatically to the best match for the entered keyword.
- Search - the Search button will return a list of matching results.
Multi-lingual CGWiki search
- You can do a multi-lingual Wikipedia search using Google Advanced Search or entering site:.wikipedia.org in the Google search box.
- Qwika has indexes for English, German, French, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Greek, Korean, Chinese and Russian where the original content is combined with machine translated content from/to English.
- Lumrix: AJAX driven Wikipedia search engine.
Browser specific help
Using Mozilla to automatically search
Listed below are ways to search Wikipedia with Mozilla-based browsers, including Mozilla Suite, Mozilla Firefox, and Netscape 6 and 7.
Search Wikipedia from the sidebar search tab or address bar
Works with: Mozilla Suite, Mozilla Firefox, Netscape 6/7.
Mozilla and Netscape 6 & 7 come with a sidebar that allows a user to search the Wikipedia site, and Firefox has a toolbar item to do the same. To install the search plugin that tells Mozilla how to search Wikipedia, do the following:
- Go to one of the following sources of Wikipedia search plugins. The Mycroft plugins are sometimes out of date, and plugins from the second source may work better.
- There are versions for many languages, so pick the language local to your area.
- If JavaScript is enabled, clicking on the name of the search plugin will automatically install the search plugin.
- If you can't install the search plugin automatically, the second source above lets you right-click on the plugin and save it to disk, or download a ZIP file containing all available plugins. Save the downloaded .src file in the searchplugins directory where Mozilla is installed and restart the browser to use the new plugin.
To make Wikipedia your default search engine in Mozilla, Beonex Communicator, and Netscape 6/7:
- Go to Edit, Preferences.
- Expand the Navigator tree and choose Internet Search.
- Choose Wikipedia as your default search engine.
With Wikipedia selected as your default engine, searches can be conducted via the search sidebar tab, search box, or the web address bar.
Search Wikipedia using a bookmarklet
Works with: Mozilla Suite, Mozilla Firefox, Netscape 6/7.
Wikipedia can also be searched via a bookmarklet.
In Mozilla Firefox, follow these steps:
- Right click in the search field at the top of the page, and select "Add a Keyword for this Search".
- Enter "Wikipedia Quicksearch" for the name.
- Enter "w" (without the quotes) for the keyword.
- Change the bookmark folder if you wish, and click "Add".
In Mozilla Suite, Netscape 6/7 and Beonex Communicator, follow these steps:
- Right click on the following web address and select "Bookmark this link": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s
- Go to Bookmarks, Manage Bookmarks. Choose the bookmark you have just created. Highlight the Bookmark and click Properties.
- In the dialogue that comes up, put a lowercase w in the keyword box.
- Click OK and close the properties box, then close the bookmark manager.
In Camino, use the Mozilla Suite directions. Use Get Info (cmd-I) in the bookmarks manager to bring up the properties dialogue.
To search, go to the web address bar, enter "w SEARCH_QUERY" (without the quotes), and press enter.
Javascript in Bookmarks
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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search='+x
The whole thing should be pasted in as a single line without spaces for it to work.
More information
- Search.ini editing tool — makes it more easy to add search engines
- How to edit Opera's search.ini (recommended reading prior to hand-editing search.ini)
Searching with TomeRaider
After downloading the CGWiki:TomeRaider database one can search the Wikipedia version offline. One can also search for parts of words.
Searching the page history
To search the text that appears only in the page history, you must export the text to XML format first.
If you cannot find an appropriate page on CGWiki
If there is no appropriate page on CGWiki, consider creating a page, since you can edit CGWiki 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.
See also
- CGWiki:Look it up, for a general guide.
- CGWiki:User preferences help, "Search result settings" section.
- CGWiki:Go button
- This page was last modified 08:53, 11 May 2006.
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