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