MediaWiki User Guide/Search

MediaWiki offers various search capabilities.

Overview

At a glance:

• Plain text search
• If CirrusSearch is enabled:
  • Search using regular expressions with "insource"
    • insource:/regexp/
    • insource:/regexp/i -- case insensitive
  • Search incategory:
  • Search deepcat:
  • Search intitle:
  • And more

In source

Examples:

• insource:{{template

  plain text search

• insource:/== Pronunciation/

  regular expression

• insource:/== Etymology.*Pronunciation/

  spans multiple rows

• insource:/\{\{template/

  escaped {

Links:

• mw:Help:CirrusSearch#Insource

In title

Examples:

• intitle:/mus.*rat/

  regular expression

• intitle:/mus.*rat$/

  does not work; $ not supported

Links:

• mw:Help:CirrusSearch#Intitle and incategory

In category

Examples:

• incategory:"English adjectives" muskrat

Links:

• mw:Help:CirrusSearch#Intitle and incategory

Negation

Using minus ("-").

Examples:

• incategory:"English adjectives" -muskrat

(The example is not particularly meaningul; better find a better one.)

Note: This seems to work at least in some setups or for some versions but there is apparently no mention of it in mw:Help:CirrusSearch.

In other books

• Regular expressions
• JavaScript/Regular expressions

External links

• Meta:Help:Searching
• mw:Help:CirrusSearch