gww>Ab.er.rant at 16:34, 21 September 2008

2008-09-21T16:34:59Z

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The quickest way to find information in Guild Wars Wiki is to look it up directly. On the left-hand side of your screen there is a '''Search''' box with two buttons under it labeled "Go" and "Search".

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Put your keyword in the searchbox.
* <font face="MS Sans Serif,Arial">'''Go'''</font> - (or ''Enter'' on keyboard) will take you automatically to the article, if it exists.
* <font face="MS Sans Serif,Arial">'''Search'''</font> - will search the text of all pages on the wiki (with some restrictions, see below).
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If you clicked 'search', or you clicked 'go' and the page you were looking for did not exist, you will be presented with a list of articles that matched your search criteria (or a message that no matches were found).
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Here's how the search works:

* Only the article content is searched - the page title is ignored.
* The article content is searched in its raw (wikitext) form - i.e. it searches the text that appears in the edit box when you click 'edit', not the rendered page. This means that content coming from an included [[Help:Templates|template]] will not be picked up, but the target of piped [[Help:Editing|links]] will be.
* Even if you enclose a phrase in quotes, the search looks for each word individually. e.g. if you enter "world war 2" it will return pages that contain "world" and "war" and "2".
* The search is not case-sensitive, so "Mhenlo", "MHENLO", and "mheNLO" all return the same results.
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| By default only the namespaces specified in your preferences will be searched. Logged-in users can change their preferences to specify the namespaces they want to search by default, or if you just want to specify different namespaces for a single search then you can do so on the search results page.
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* [http://guildwars.com/search/ Search on GuildWars.com]
* [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Search Search help on MetaWiki]
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gww>Ab.er.rant at 16:34, 21 September 2008