Wikipedia:Tip of the day/February 8

Wikipedia Search box - basic

Wikipedia has its own search engine, with its search box on every page. The search box will go to a given page name, but there are three ways to go to the search results page instead.


 * 1) If you activate the magnifying-glass icon (or the button) from an empty search box, you'll go to an empty search results page.
 * 2) If you start any query with the tilde character, it always generates search results, ~page name.
 * 3) Choose "undefined" from the page names that drop-down as you type (if you have JavaScript enabled). To access the suggestions that drop down as you type, click the mouse on them, or use, or , to access them.

At an empty Search display, there are filtering options for:
 * Content pages Search in (Article)
 * Multimedia Search for files
 * Everything Search of all content (including talk pages)
 * Advanced Search in custom namespaces