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The quickest way to find information in MediaWiki is to look it up directly. On the left-hand side of your screen there is a '''Search''' box with two buttons under it labeled "Go" and "Search".
The quickest way to find information in Wiki Law School is to look it up directly with the '''search''' functionality.  
 
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Put your keyword in the searchbox.
* <font face="MS Sans Serif,Arial">'''Go'''</font> - (or ''Enter'' on keyboard) will take you automatically to the article, if it exists.
* <font face="MS Sans Serif,Arial">'''Search'''</font> - will search the text of all pages on the wiki (with some restrictions, see below).
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If you clicked 'search', or you clicked 'go' and the page you were looking for did not exist, you will be presented with a list of articles that matched your search criteria (or a message that no matches were found).


==How to Search==
At the top of your screen there is a Search box with a magnifying glass icon [[File:Timeless Skin - Search-ltr.png]] at its right. Put your keyword in the search box. Tapping or clicking the magnifying glass will take you automatically to the article, if it exists. If the page you were looking for did not exist, you will be presented with a list of articles that matched your search criteria (or a message that no matches were found).


== How it works ==
== How it works ==
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* Only the article content is searched - the page title is ignored.
* Only the article content is searched - the page title is ignored.
* The article content is searched in its raw (wikitext) form - i.e. it searches the text that appears in the edit box when you click 'edit', not the rendered page. This means that content coming from an included template will not be picked up, but the target of piped links will be.
* The article content is searched in its raw (wikitext) form - i.e. it searches the text that appears in the edit box when you "source edit," not the rendered page. This means that content coming from an included template will not be picked up, but the target of piped links will be.
* Even if you enclose a phrase in quotes, the search looks for each word individually.  e.g. if you enter "world war 2" it will return pages that contain "world" and "war" and "2".
* Even if you enclose a phrase in quotes, the search looks for each word individually.  e.g. if you enter "world war 2" it will return pages that contain "world" and "war" and "2".
* The search is not case-sensitive, so "MediaWiki", "mediawiki" and "MEDIAWIKI" all give the same result.
* The search is not case-sensitive, so "MediaWiki", "mediawiki" and "MEDIAWIKI" all give the same result.


== Restricting the search ==
== Restricting the search ==
By default only the [[Help:namespaces|namespaces]] specified in your [[Help:preferences|preferences]] will be searched.  Logged-in users can change their preferences to specify the namespaces they want to search by default, or if you just want to specify different namespaces for a single search then you can do so on the search results page.
By default only the [[Help:namespaces|namespaces]] specified in your [[Help:preferences|preferences]] will be searched.  Logged-in users can change their preferences to specify the namespaces they want to search by default, or if you just want to specify different namespaces for a single search then you can do so on the search results page. To do this, select "Advanced," use the checkboxes to select or deselect namespaces, and then select "Search" again.
 
 


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The quickest way to find information in Wiki Law School is to look it up directly with the search functionality.

How to Search

At the top of your screen there is a Search box with a magnifying glass icon Timeless Skin - Search-ltr.png at its right. Put your keyword in the search box. Tapping or clicking the magnifying glass will take you automatically to the article, if it exists. If the page you were looking for did not exist, you will be presented with a list of articles that matched your search criteria (or a message that no matches were found).

How it works

Here's how the search works:

  • Only the article content is searched - the page title is ignored.
  • The article content is searched in its raw (wikitext) form - i.e. it searches the text that appears in the edit box when you "source edit," not the rendered page. This means that content coming from an included template will not be picked up, but the target of piped links will be.
  • Even if you enclose a phrase in quotes, the search looks for each word individually. e.g. if you enter "world war 2" it will return pages that contain "world" and "war" and "2".
  • The search is not case-sensitive, so "MediaWiki", "mediawiki" and "MEDIAWIKI" all give the same result.

Restricting the search

By default only the namespaces specified in your preferences will be searched. Logged-in users can change their preferences to specify the namespaces they want to search by default, or if you just want to specify different namespaces for a single search then you can do so on the search results page. To do this, select "Advanced," use the checkboxes to select or deselect namespaces, and then select "Search" again.