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Creates a side box linking to Wikipedia search results for up to five arguments.
For use in the "See also" section of disambiguation and anthroponymy pages only; use in regular articles is discouraged.
Links to search results for a term, even if an article exists with that term as its title.
A search link stores a query in a link that takes you to live search results for that stored search. They're found on user pages and talk pages. Use one to bring the full feature set of MediaWiki Search, or features of external search engines, to bear on users unfamiliar with their search parameters.
One type of search link is a wikilink with all the capabilities of Search (search box), and with standard wikilink syntax: [[Special:Search/query| label]]. So this search link will (1) navigate: [[Special:search/Wales]] → Special:search/Wales or (2) search: [[Special:search/~Wales | search/~Wales]] → search/~Wales if you prefix a ~ tilde character.
All other search links are made from a template that will build a URL instead of wikilink. A URL can for example can call off-site search engines to search Wikipedia.
Search boxes are made by <inputbox>
tags. See mw:Extension:InputBox.
For searches with exact matches, exact in upper and lower cases, or in punctuation marks, see Help:Searching § grep.
(term)
in parentheses; useful for Wikipedia:disambiguation study<inputbox>...</inputbox>
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