Template:Search archives

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Usage

A box for searching the subpages, basically excluding the tagged page itself from the scope.

Basic usage: {{search archives}}. For example, if you put it at Wikipedia talk:Talk pages, it will search the subpages of Wikipedia talk:Talk pages, excluding that page.

If you want to search different page's subpages, specify it as the parameter root like this:
{{search archives|prefix=Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation}}.

Use the parameter prefix instead of root to include the page itself to the search scope. (But if you pass prefix=HTML, it will search not only HTML, but also all pages beginning with "HTML", such as HTML element etc.)

Other parameters:

searchbuttonlabel: The button label.
search-width: The search box width. Defaults to 30.

Example: {{search archives|searchbuttonlabel=Search Wikipedia|search-width=80}}
produces:

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.