Template:Linksearch
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Template documentationHelps to search for external link URLs in articles, by creating a link to Special:Linksearch.
Usage
- The first argument is the URL to be searched for.
- The second, optional argument is caption.
Examples:
- Code:
{{linksearch|*.example.com}} - Result: [2]
- Code:
{{linksearch|*.example.com|Here are all the articles with links to example.com}} - Result: Here are all the articles with links to example.com
Templates to search Wikipedia
Fulltext search links
- {{Search link}}: Make a link for Wikipedia's search page. Example:
{{search link|tosa diary|pages with the phrase "tosa diary"}}creates pages with the phrase "tosa diary". - {{shortSearch}}, {{wpsearch}}: Create links also to google.
Search boxes
- {{search box}}: Simple search box with choice of button below or to the right.
- {{search prefixes}}: Multiple pages' subpages are searched at once.
- {{search archives}} and {{archive banner}}: For searching archives. The latter, {{archive banner}} is of banner-style, like many other archive templates.
Search boxes are made by <inputbox> tags. See mw:Extension:InputBox.
Page title searches
- {{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.
Other Wikipedia editor helper
- {{linksearch}}: Search for external links matching for a URL.
- {{search deletion discussions}}: Search box for all kinds of deletion discussions.
- {{dabsearch}}: Find page titles containing (any word), including the parentheses. Useful for Wikipedia:disambiguation study.
- {{Help desk searches}}: List of links to google pages, specialized to search for example user pages, village pump, etc. Useful for the Wikipedia:help desk task.
- {{spamsearch}}: Searches user pages for common spams, e.g. "we service", "leading manufacturer" etc.
See also
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