Template:Look from

All pages beginning with "Template:Look from"

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Creates a link to list all pages beginning with a given word.

To search for page names which contain given words, use {{in title}}.

Usage

• {{Look from|NAME|NAMESPACE|TEXT}}

All three parameters are optional.

If no parameters are given, the name of the tagged page 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

Example

Case	Code	Result
no parameter	{{look from}}	All pages beginning with "Template:Look from"
with a first parameter	{{look from|Alan}}	All pages beginning with "Alan"
with a second parameter	{{look from|Alan|File}}	All pages beginning with "File:Alan"
with a third parameter	{{look from|Alan||all the Alans}}	all the Alans

Aliases

• {{startswith}}
• {{prefixindex}}

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

• Red link prefix index tool (A toolserver tool)
• Help:Searching
• Category:Search templates