Powerbase:Searching - Revision history

Melissa Jones at 12:30, 2 September 2010

2010-09-02T12:30:03Z

Melissa Jones: typo/formatting

2010-09-02T11:35:17Z

typo/formatting

David at 09:57, 7 July 2010

2010-07-07T09:57:14Z

Claire Robinson at 15:05, 30 September 2009

2009-09-30T15:05:37Z

Lynn Hill: added category

2009-02-18T13:22:13Z

added category

Lynn Hill: removed use of wildcards

2009-01-05T11:47:03Z

removed use of wildcards

Lynn Hill: /* If you cannot find an appropriate page on Spinprofiles */

2008-12-06T16:24:01Z

If you cannot find an appropriate page on Spinprofiles

Lynn Hill at 14:57, 3 December 2008

2008-12-03T14:57:40Z

Claire Robinson: /* Words in single quotes */

2008-11-11T10:45:01Z

Words in single quotes

Claire Robinson: /* Words with special characters */

2008-11-11T10:43:38Z

Words with special characters

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 This page provides an overview of the search feature which can be used to find information (or an article) in the Powerbase site.
 The ''search'' box is found on the left hand side of a page.
-Put the keyword for your search in the box.
+==How to do a search==
 You now have two options:
-* '''Go''' - (or ''Enter'' on keyboard) will take you automatically to the article if it exists under the same title as the one you have entered. If the title does not yet exist, it will ask if you want to ''create this page'' (make sure to familiarise yourself with [[Powerbase:How to Start a Page|How to start a page]] and Powerbase [[Powerbase:Naming Conventions|naming conventions]] before creating a new page).
+. '''Go''' - (or ''Enter'' on keyboard) will take you automatically to the article if it exists under the same title as the one you have entered. If the title does not yet exist, it will ask if you want to ''create this page'' (make sure to familiarise yourself with [[Powerbase:How to Start a Page|How to start a page]] and Powerbase [[Powerbase:Naming Conventions|naming conventions]] before creating a new page).
-* '''Search''' - will return a list of articles.
+. '''Search''' - will return a list of articles.

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 This page provides an overview of the search feature which can be used to find information (or an article) in the Powerbase site.
 The ''search'' box is found on the left hand side of a page.
 Put the keyword for your search in the box.
-The ''search'' box is found on the left hand side of a page. Put the keyword for your search in the box. You now have two options.
+You now have two options:
 * '''Go''' - (or ''Enter'' on keyboard) will take you automatically to the article if it exists under the same title as the one you have entered. If the title does not yet exist, it will ask if you want to ''create this page'' (make sure to familiarise yourself with [[Powerbase:How to Start a Page|How to start a page]] and Powerbase [[Powerbase:Naming Conventions|naming conventions]] before creating a new page).
+You will also see a list of ''matches'' from your keyword.
 * '''Search''' - will return a list of articles.
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 Here are few good tips and hints for using the Powerbase search feature effectively:

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-{{SpinProfiles:Help}}
+{{Powerbase:Help}}
-This page provides an overview of the search feature which can be used to find information (or an article) in the SpinProfiles site.
 The ''search'' box is found on the left hand side of a page. Put the keyword for your search in the box. You now have two options.
-* '''Go''' - (or ''Enter'' on keyboard) will take you automatically to the article if it exists under the same title as the one you have entered. If the title does not yet exist, it will ask if you want to ''create this page'' (make sure to familiarise yourself with [[SpinProfiles:How to Start a Page|How to start a page]] and SpinProfiles [[SpinProfiles:Naming Conventions|naming conventions]] before creating a new page).
 You will also see a list of ''matches'' from you're keyword.
 * '''Search''' - will return a list of articles.
 ==Effective searching==
-Here are few good tips and hints for using the SpinProfiles search feature effectively:
 ====Avoid short and common words====
 If your search terms include a common "stop word" (such as "the", "one", "your", "more", "right", "while", "when", "who", "which",
 "such", "every", "about") it may give a large number of non-relevant results. The system cannot search for numbers.
 ====Words with special characters====
 In a '''search''' for a word with a diaeresis, such as Sint Odili&euml;nberg, it depends whether this ë is stored as one character or as "&amp;euml;". In the first case one can simply search for Odilienberg (or Odili&euml;nberg); in the second case it can only be found by searching for Odili, euml and/or nberg.
 ====Words in single quotes====
 If a word appears in an article with single quotes, you can only find it if you search for the word with quotes. Since this is rarely desirable, it is better to use double quotes in articles for which this problem does not arise.
 An apostrophe is identical to a single quote, therefore the name Mu'ammar can be found only by searching for exactly that (and not otherwise). A word with ''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s'' is an exception in that it can be found also by searching for the word without the apostrophe and the s.
-[[Category:SpinProfiles Help]]

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 ==If you cannot find an appropriate page on Spinprofiles==
-If there is no appropriate page on Spinprofiles, consider [[Spinprofiles:How to start a page|creating a page]].  Or consider adding what you were looking for to the [[Spinprofiles:Requested articles|Requested articles]] page.
+If there is no appropriate page on Spinprofiles, consider [[Spinprofiles:How to Start a Page|creating a page]].  Or consider adding what you were looking for to the [[Spinprofiles:Requested articles|Requested articles]] page.
 [[Category:SpinProfiles Help]]