Template:Look from/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:Look from. It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

This template is used on approximately 11,000 pages and changes may be widely noticed. Test changes in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them.

Use this template to create a link to a list of all page names which begin with a given word or words.

Note: Use the template {{in title}} instead if you wish to create a link to a list of all page names which contain a given word or words.

• {{Look from|NAME|NAMESPACE|TEXT}}

All three parameters are optional.

If no parameters are given, the name of the tagged page is used.

If there is no second parameter, the main namespace is used.

The third parameter can be used for displaying another text than the default one

A search link stores a query in a link that takes you to live search results for that stored search. They're found on user pages and talk pages. Use one to bring the full feature set of MediaWiki Search, or features of external search engines, to bear on users unfamiliar with their search parameters.

One type of search link is a wikilink with all the capabilities of Search (search box), and with standard wikilink syntax: [[Special:Search/query| label]]. So this search link will (1) navigate: [[Special:search/Wales]] → Special:search/Wales or (2) search: [[Special:search/~Wales | search/~Wales]] → search/~Wales if you prefix a ~ tilde character.

All other search links are made from a template that will build a URL instead of wikilink. A URL can for example can call off-site search engines to search Wikipedia.

• {{Search link}} offers all the capabilities of Searching (search box), plus extra (URL) parameters for combinations of namespaces, and where you can escape the 20-results-per page-limitation, shareable: {{search link | et al | ''label'' | ns4 | ns5 | limit = 123}} → label.
• {{Regex}} – develop an advanced regex search. {{regex | \<--.*--> | label = Articles with comments missing the ! bang character | prefix=0}} → Articles with comments missing the ! bang character
• {{Template usage}} – develop a template regex search, and pinpoint specific template-call details. {{Template usage | Convert | \{{!}}C\{{!}}F | 0 | Articles that convert Celsius to Fahrenheit}} → Articles that convert Celsius to Fahrenheit
• {{ShortSearch}} – create three search links: {{ShortSearch | system operations research}} → WP GWP G (search Wikipedia, "Google" Wikipedia, and Google search)
• {{wpsearch}} – create five search links: {{wpsearch|collaborative search}} → collaborative search – Wikipedia search | Google search | Bing search | DuckDuckGo search | Yahoo search
• {{Wikidata search link}} – creates a Wikidata search link for descriptions, entities, items, properties, etc. → https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Universe&title=Special:Search&fulltext=1

• {{Search box}} – Simple search box with choice of button below or to the right
• {{Search prefixes}} – Multiple pages' subpages are searched at once.
• {{Archive banner}} –For searching archives. It is of banner-style, like many other archive templates.
• {{Search lists}} – For searching from lists of lists.
• {{Editor search boxes}} – List of different administrative namespaces search boxes.

Search boxes are made by <inputbox> tags. See mw:Extension:InputBox.

• {{Canned search}} – Link to automated search results for a given term
• {{In title}} – Search for pages whose name contains given words
• {{Look from}} – Search for pages whose name begins with a given word

For searches with exact matches, exact in upper and lower cases, or in punctuation marks, see Help:Searching § grep.

• {{Linksearch}} – Searches for external links matching a URL
• {{dabsearch|term}} – External tool to find page titles containing a (term) in parentheses; useful for Wikipedia:disambiguation study
• {{Help desk searches}} – Navbox with list of links to Google pages, specialized to search for example user pages, village pump, etc.; useful for Wikipedia:Help desk tasks
• {{Spamcheck}} – Generates a link to the Spamcheck tool on Tool forge
• {{Spamsearch}} – Searches user pages for common spams, e.g. "we service", "leading manufacturer", etc.

• Help:Searching
• Category:Search templates
• MediaWiki:Extension:InputBox § General syntax - how to create your own search box using <inputbox>...</inputbox>