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Cheatsheet of on-wiki search syntax
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This is a cheatsheet of search syntax that can be used in the on-wiki search box.

In general all of the syntax can be combined together, so you can use a wildcarded specific phrase with a namespace, insource, and incategory all at once. Multiple of each can be used too, like a few different insource usages. Multiple terms together are implicitly ANDed.

The wiki uses CirrusSearch to power the search box. See the full details on all of the syntax in the documentation or general concepts on MediaWiki.org.

  1. The wildcard \? is must be used with the escaping backslash - plain question marks are treated literally as searches can contain questions.
  2. The * wildcard must follow one other non-wildcard character - it cannot be the first character
  3. Greyspace is defined as any of these characters ~!@#$%^&*()_+-={}|[]\:";'<>?,./. In general greyspace characters are treated as 'word boundaries' - removed and replaced with a space.
  4. Technically, the time specified in prefer-recent is the half-life of the boost amount; the boost amount is halved every number of days.
  5. These do not imply the File: namespace filter - you will need to specify that too (or use the checkboxes).
  6. 1 kibibyte (1KiB) = 1024 bytes.
  7. File resolution is defined as sqrt(height × width)
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