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You can use Google's advanced search to search MagicPedia by using it's [http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:geniimagazine.com/wiki/&hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all search within a site or domain] option, which usually gives better results then the internal wiki search.   
 
You can use Google's advanced search to search MagicPedia by using it's [http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:geniimagazine.com/wiki/&hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all search within a site or domain] option, which usually gives better results then the internal wiki search.   
  
You can also go to the [http://www.google.com/cse?cx=001274559657419454505%3A8rkzdhxg5iy MagicPedia Google Customized Search] page
 
  
Also the [http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=001274559657419454505:wukyryfqrng Genii Magazine Index Custom search]
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There is a [http://www.google.com/cse?cx=001274559657419454505%3A8rkzdhxg5iy MagicPedia Google Customized Search]
  
Check out the Google Search Timeline view:
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== Genii magazine index ==
[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=1&tbs=tl%3A1&q=site%3Ageniimagazine.com%2Fwiki%2F+houdini&btnG=Search&aq=f&oq=&aqi= MagicPedia search for "Houdini" in timeline view] and [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=1&tbs=tl%3A1&q=site%3Ageniimagazine.com%2Fwiki%2F&btnG=Search&aq=f&oq=&aqi= All of MagicPedia in timeline view]
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We have a lot of Genii magazines indexed on MagicPedia for browsing: [[:Category:Genii]]
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You can search just the genii issues in MagicPedia by added "category:genii" (in quotes) to the search: [http://geniimagazine.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=advanced&search=Max+Maven%E2%80%99s+Monthly+Inquisition++%22category%3Agenii%22 Max Maven’s Monthly Inquisition "category:genii"]
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You can search by year too: [http://geniimagazine.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=advanced&search=Max+Maven%E2%80%99s+Monthly+Inquisition++%22category%3Agenii%22 Max Maven’s Monthly Inquisition "category:genii 2008"]
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There is also a [http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=001274559657419454505:wukyryfqrng Genii Magazine Index Custom search].
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Latest revision as of 13:57, 2 December 2012

The quickest way to find information in MediaWiki 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".

Put your keyword in the searchbox.

  • Go - (or Enter on keyboard) will take you automatically to the article, if it exists.
  • Search - will search the text of all pages on the wiki (with some restrictions, see below).

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).


How it works

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 template will not be picked up, but the target of piped 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 "MediaWiki", "mediawiki" and "MEDIAWIKI" all give the same result.

Restricting the search

If you click the 'Search' button without filling in anything, you will be taken to 'Special:Search' which gives you extra searching options (also available from any search results list)

You may find it useful to restrict a search to pages within a particular namespace e.g. only search within the 'Talk' pages. Tick the namespaces you require for this search.

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.

Advanced Searching

You can use Google's advanced search to search MagicPedia by using it's search within a site or domain option, which usually gives better results then the internal wiki search.


There is a MagicPedia Google Customized Search

Genii magazine index

We have a lot of Genii magazines indexed on MagicPedia for browsing: Category:Genii

You can search just the genii issues in MagicPedia by added "category:genii" (in quotes) to the search: Max Maven’s Monthly Inquisition "category:genii"

You can search by year too: Max Maven’s Monthly Inquisition "category:genii 2008"

There is also a Genii Magazine Index Custom search.