You can search Engineering Wiki using the search box that appears in the sidebar (or elsewhere in other skins).
To browse pages on the wiki, you can view a list of all pages or browse by category. See Special:Log/upload to search for images.
Search is not case sensitive.
Things you can use in your search[]
- and (used by default)
- or
- not
- parentheses - for example: (X or Y) and Z
- quotation marks (for searching for phrases)
Things you can not use in your search[]
- Very common words.
- Regular expressions
- Wildcards such as ? or *
More details are available at MetaWikipedia:Help:Searching.
Create new articles from the search form[]
If you would like an option to create a new article with the title of a word searched for, edit MediaWiki:Searchquery and MediaWiki:Nogomatch in the following way on the wiki you want this option (you will need to be an admin to make these edits):
MediaWiki:Searchquery[]
You searched for "<a href="/wiki/$1">$1</a>" <a href="/wiki/Special:Allpages/$1">[Index]</a>
MediaWiki:Nogomatch[]
<span style="font-size: 135%; font-weight: bold; margin-left: .6em">No page with that title exists.</span>
<span style="display: block; margin: 1.5em 2em">You can <b><a href="$1" class="new">create an article with this title</a></b>.
<span style="display:block; font-size: 89%; margin-left:.2em">Please search Wikia before creating an article to avoid duplicating an existing one, which may have a different name or spelling.</span> </span>
Adding search boxes to your wiki[]
In MediaWiki 1.5, you will be able to add a search box on any page.
Google search[]
The Google logo in the sidebar can be changed. There are two defaults available; one is suitable for dark backgrounds and one for light backgrounds.