To search a specific namespace, include the prefix in searches
To search for a topic in a specific
namespace, precede the topic with that namespace's prefix, followed by a colon. If the topic has a page with that name, pressing Enter will take you right to it. Otherwise, a list of relevant search results will appear.
For example, one way to get a listing of articles on ancient Greece is to type Category:Ancient Greece in the search box. To go to the portal for the Ancient Greeks, you would type: Portal:Ancient Greece.
The namespace prefixes are: Category:, Portal:, File:, User:, Talk:, Wikipedia:, Help:, Book:, Draft:, and Template:.
You can also search in sister projects by using the full name of the sister project, or its abbreviation (e.g.- Wiktionary: or wikt:).
Are you tired of having to type long links to targets, and then having to write out most of the link again to hide the
namespace? Simply put a
pipe ( "|" ) at the end of the link, like so: [[Wikipedia:Tip of the day|]], which turns
Wikipedia:Tip of the day into
Tip of the day. This trick also works with parentheses – [[colon (punctuation)|]] becomes
colon, and comma – [[San Francisco, California|]] becomes
San Francisco.
This user does not put
two spaces after a full stop.
its
This user understands the
difference between its (of it) and it's (it is or it has).
your you're
This user thinks that if your grammar is incorrect, then you're in need of help.
’s
Thi's user know's that not every word that end's with
s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice.
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mirror site. Be aware that the page may be outdated and that the user in whose space this page is located may have no personal affiliation with any site other than Wikipedia. The original page is located at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jedd_Raynier/Archive_1.