User:Stmrlbs/tools

Advanced Search
Why they don't have a more easily accessible link to this, I don't know - you go to special pages, then go to "Redirecting special pages" (wtf??), then click on Search, then click on advanced search.

or, just clear the wikipedia search box, and hit enter - then go to advanced search.

Advanced Search

click the areas you want to search (notice how you can clear or check all on the right)

narrow by Year - kinda
search for '2012 (UTC)' (single quotes, not double like the documentation says - double quotes doesn't seem to work)

if you want to narrow it to a certain month, search for 'November 2011 (UTC)'

this is kind of hit and miss.. it depends on an entry being posted on that day, so it will probably find mostly talk pages. However, since there is no date facility in the wikipedia search (very limited), then it is a kind of clunky way to try to trim the results.

Unfortunately, you can search for a date greater than xxx or sort entries in date order - it really makes it hard to find things. One of the many wikipedia time suckers.

Prefix Search
good for all pages/subpages with a certain prefix in the requested area of Wikipedia. The prefix xxx acts like xxx* 1st char is case insensitive - rest of name is case sensitive. Unfortunately, there is no way to specify a case insensitive search.

find pages with a certain prefix

Page Stats
Grouped by user |User Contribution Tool

to create direct links - using as an example : Chiropractic for 2011

User Contributions to 2011 Chiropractic Article User Contributions to 2011 Chiropractic Talk Pages

Look at 'View History' page to see links to other useful external tools.

Check All Article Links for validity/problems
Checklinks

What links to Here?
Special:WhatLinksHere

can be restricted to a certain area of wikipedia