Description

Searches for a specific sequence of characters. Punctuation marks are ignored.

Be aware of the following

(only valid when using quotation marks, see example below)

Separate the search phrases by comma or space e.g. "good morning", "hello friend!".
Punctuation marks and other non-alphanumeric characters (with exception of the colon and comma) will be ignored.
Search is not case-sensitive.
Word stemming is not applied.

Help page: Words, phrases, and modifiers
Syntax-equivalent in the normal search: Words in quotation marks, for example "Begin at the beginning".

You can use the following keywords to refine the search results:
quotes ("")	Search for the exact phrase.
AND	Search for two expressions (the default setting; use manually between two strings in quotation marks).
OR	Search for any of the two expressions.
minus (-)	Exclude pages that contain the word directly preceded by the minus (should be preceded by a space if used in the middle of the query).
asterisk (*)	Used at the end of the word as a wildcard.
tilde (~)	If used at the beginning of the query, it prevents jumping to the search result afterwards. At the end of the word, it enables "fuzzy search": the results will contain words that are similar in spelling.
intitle:	Search only in page titles.
prefix:	Search only on pages with titles beginning with the specified words. This instruction should be at the end of the search query.
incategory:	Search only for pages in the specified category.
linksto:	Search only on pages that link to the specified page.
hastemplate:	Search only on pages that contain the specified template.
insource:	Search in wikitext, and not in the text rendered in the browser.
AND, OR and - (minus) can be used along with keywords. When searching for a phrase with "intitle:", "incategory:", etc., put it in quotation marks. A comprehensive list of keywords with examples This box: view · talk · edit