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Karsten Theis: /* Disadvantages of the wiki search box */

2021-04-10T13:47:24Z

Disadvantages of the wiki search box

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	On the left toolbar present when viewing any page in Proteopedia is a standard '''wiki search box''', similar to what you find in Wikipedia. The second search method is using Google to search Proteopedia with the search string "site:proteopedia.org ...", where "..." stands for the term or combination of terms you are interested in. Why have two? Performing good searches is a hard task, and the standard wiki search feature often comes up short, so we wanted to provide another option.		On the left toolbar present when viewing any page in Proteopedia is a standard '''wiki search box''', similar to what you find in Wikipedia. The second search method is using Google to search Proteopedia with the search string "site:proteopedia.org ...", where "..." stands for the term or combination of terms you are interested in. Why have two? Performing good searches is a hard task, and the standard wiki search feature often comes up short, so we wanted to provide another option.
	===Disadvantages of the wiki search box===		===Disadvantages of the wiki search box===
	Words of 3 or fewer characters in length are ignored and cannot be found, for example searching for '''MHC''' fails to find any page text matches, while doing the same search in the Google search box finds many. Words of 4 or more characters are found, e.g. '''hook'''.		Words of 3 or fewer characters in length are ignored and cannot be found, for example searching for '''MHC''' fails to find any page text matches, while doing the same search in the Google search box finds many. Words of 4 or more characters are found, e.g. '''hook''', unless they are stop words (see [[Help:Stop Words]]).

	===Advantages of the wiki search box===		===Advantages of the wiki search box===

Karsten Theis: /* Two search methods */

2019-08-26T21:24:48Z

Two search methods

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	==Two search methods==		==Two search methods==
	On the left toolbar present when viewing any page in Proteopedia is a standard '''wiki search box''', similar to what you find in Wikipedia. The second search method is using Google to search Proteopedia ~~using~~ "site:proteopedia.org ...". Why have two? Performing good searches is a hard task, and the standard wiki search feature often comes up short, so we wanted to provide another option.		On the left toolbar present when viewing any page in Proteopedia is a standard '''wiki search box''', similar to what you find in Wikipedia. The second search method is using Google to search Proteopedia with the search string "site:proteopedia.org ...", where "..." stands for the term or combination of terms you are interested in. Why have two? Performing good searches is a hard task, and the standard wiki search feature often comes up short, so we wanted to provide another option.
	===Disadvantages of the wiki search box===		===Disadvantages of the wiki search box===
	Words of 3 or fewer characters in length are ignored and cannot be found, for example searching for '''MHC''' fails to find any page text matches, while doing the same search in the Google search box finds many. Words of 4 or more characters are found, e.g. '''hook'''.		Words of 3 or fewer characters in length are ignored and cannot be found, for example searching for '''MHC''' fails to find any page text matches, while doing the same search in the Google search box finds many. Words of 4 or more characters are found, e.g. '''hook'''.

Karsten Theis at 21:23, 26 August 2019

2019-08-26T21:23:47Z

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	==Two search ~~boxes~~==		==Two search methods==
	On the left toolbar present when viewing any page in Proteopedia ~~are two search boxes. The first~~ is ~~the~~ standard '''wiki search box''', similar to what you find in Wikipedia. The second is ~~a '''Google search box''' that uses~~ Google to search Proteopedia. Why have two? Performing good searches is a hard task, and the standard wiki search feature often comes up short, so we wanted to provide another option.		On the left toolbar present when viewing any page in Proteopedia is a standard '''wiki search box''', similar to what you find in Wikipedia. The second search method is using Google to search Proteopedia using "site:proteopedia.org ...". Why have two? Performing good searches is a hard task, and the standard wiki search feature often comes up short, so we wanted to provide another option.
	===Disadvantages of the wiki search box===		===Disadvantages of the wiki search box===
	Words of 3 or fewer characters in length are ignored and cannot be found, for example searching for '''MHC''' fails to find any page text matches, while doing the same search in the Google search box finds many. Words of 4 or more characters are found, e.g. '''hook'''.		Words of 3 or fewer characters in length are ignored and cannot be found, for example searching for '''MHC''' fails to find any page text matches, while doing the same search in the Google search box finds many. Words of 4 or more characters are found, e.g. '''hook'''.
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	===Disadvantages of the Google search ~~box~~===		===Disadvantages of the Google search===
	Recently created pages will not appear when searching using the Google search box because Google needs time to find and index new pages. Additionally, it is impossible to restrict your search to particular namespaces like you can with the wiki search.		Recently created pages will not appear when searching using the Google search box because Google needs time to find and index new pages. Additionally, it is impossible to restrict your search to particular namespaces like you can with the wiki search.

	===Advantages of the Google search ~~box~~===		===Advantages of the Google search===
	Three-character length words, such as '''MHC''', are found by Google but are not found by the wiki search box.		Three-character length words, such as '''MHC''', are found by Google but are not found by the wiki search box.

Eric Martz: /* Titles Alphabetically */

2019-01-01T23:09:10Z

Titles Alphabetically

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	*Searching for "a" lists all page titles beginning with the letter A.		*Searching for "a" lists all page titles beginning with the letter A.
	*searching for "alpha" lists all page titles beginning with those characters.		*searching for "alpha" lists all page titles beginning with those characters.

			Titles in ''italics'' are redirects to other pages. If you click a redirect, you will go to a page with a different title. Underneath the title you will see "Redirected from ...". Redirects provide alternative titles that users might look for, guiding them to the relevant page.

	Note that this mechanism searches '''only one namespace''' at a time. You may need to search several [[Proteopedia:Namespaces\|namespaces]].		Note that this mechanism searches '''only one namespace''' at a time. You may need to search several [[Proteopedia:Namespaces\|namespaces]].

Eric Martz: /* Titles Alphabetically */

2019-01-01T22:58:24Z

Titles Alphabetically

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	Note that this mechanism searches '''only one namespace''' at a time. You may need to search several [[Proteopedia:Namespaces\|namespaces]].		Note that this mechanism searches '''only one namespace''' at a time. You may need to search several [[Proteopedia:Namespaces\|namespaces]].

			A similar mechanism is offered by [[Special:Allpages]].

	==Excluding PDB code-titled pages==		==Excluding PDB code-titled pages==

Eric Martz: /* Titles vs. Page Text */

2019-01-01T22:57:34Z

Titles vs. Page Text

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	==Titles vs. Page Text==		==Titles vs. Page Text==
	Search results are divided into two sections: ''Article title matches'' ~~and~~ ''Page text matches''. This makes it easy to find articles that have your search term in their titles.		Search results are divided into two sections:
			*''Article title matches''
			*''Page text matches''
			This makes it easy to find articles that have your search term in their titles.

	==Titles Alphabetically==		==Titles Alphabetically==

Eric Martz: /* Titles Alphabetically */

2019-01-01T22:43:52Z

Titles Alphabetically

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	==Titles Alphabetically==		==Titles Alphabetically==
	You can display a list of article (page) titles that begin with a specified character or characters by using the [[Special:Prefixindex]] search mechanism.		You can display a list of article (page) titles that begin with a specified character or characters by using the [[Special:Prefixindex]] search mechanism.

			*Searching for "a" lists all page titles beginning with the letter A.
			*searching for "alpha" lists all page titles beginning with those characters.

			Note that this mechanism searches '''only one namespace''' at a time. You may need to search several [[Proteopedia:Namespaces\|namespaces]].

	==Excluding PDB code-titled pages==		==Excluding PDB code-titled pages==

Eric Martz: /* Titles vs. Page Text */

2019-01-01T22:38:07Z

Titles vs. Page Text

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	==Titles vs. Page Text==		==Titles vs. Page Text==
	Search results are divided into two sections: ''Article title matches'' and ''Page text matches''. This makes it easy to find articles that have your search term in their titles.		Search results are divided into two sections: ''Article title matches'' and ''Page text matches''. This makes it easy to find articles that have your search term in their titles.

			==Titles Alphabetically==
			You can display a list of article (page) titles that begin with a specified character or characters by using the [[Special:Prefixindex]] search mechanism.

	==Excluding PDB code-titled pages==		==Excluding PDB code-titled pages==

Eric Martz: /* "Go" versus "Search" */

2019-01-01T22:33:07Z

"Go" versus "Search"

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 =="Go" versus "Search"==
 In the wiki search box, using the button "Go" will take you directly to a page whose title exactly matches your search query, if it exists.  Using the button "Search" will instead perform a search using your search query and take you to a page displaying the results.
 ==More powerful searching==

Eric Martz: /* Advantages of the wiki search box */

2011-11-08T23:45:55Z

Advantages of the wiki search box

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	* Searching for '''casp''' (all lower case) matches the article title [[CASP]] as well as CASP, Casp, and casp in page text.		* Searching for '''casp''' (all lower case) matches the article title [[CASP]] as well as CASP, Casp, and casp in page text.

	You can put double quotes around a phrase to restrict hits to the phrase, rather than getting hits to all pages that include any word in the phrase. See more tips [[#More powerful searching\|below]].		You can put double quotes around a '''phrase''' to restrict hits to the phrase, rather than getting hits to all pages that include any word in the phrase. See more tips [[#More powerful searching\|below]].

	You can ~~restrict your search to specified~~ [[Proteopedia:Namespaces\|namespaces]]. For example, the automatically-generated ''Category:'' pages may flood your search results, but you can exclude those. See the namespace checkboxes at the bottom of the results from any search. Also, when logged in, you can set your default namespaces for wiki searches in ''my preferences'' (see link at the top of every page to ''my preferences'').		You can '''exclude [[Proteopedia:Namespaces\|namespaces]]''' that you specify. For example, the automatically-generated ''Category:'' pages may flood your search results, but you can exclude those. See the namespace checkboxes at the bottom of the results from any search. Also, when logged in, you can set your default namespaces for wiki searches in ''my preferences'' (see link at the top of every page to ''my preferences'').

	Redirects are excluded from searches by default, and this cannot be changed in ''my preferences''. However, the very last checkbox at the bottom of the search results page is ''List redirects''. Check it and run the search again (using the button near the checkboxes) to see redirects.		'''Redirects''' are excluded from searches by default, and this cannot be changed in ''my preferences''. However, the very last checkbox at the bottom of the search results page is ''List redirects''. Check it and run the search again (using the button near the checkboxes) to see redirects.

	<blockquote>What is a redirect? If you enter CRABP in the wiki search box and click ''Go'', you will be redirected and arrive at the page [[Cellular retinoic acid-binding protein]]. Beneath the title, you will see ''Redirected from [http://www.proteopedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=CRABP&redirect=no CRABP]''. Click on [http://www.proteopedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=CRABP&redirect=no CRABP] to see the page titled CRABP that redirects to [[Cellular retinoic acid-binding protein]].		<blockquote>What is a redirect? If you enter CRABP in the wiki search box and click ''Go'', you will be redirected and arrive at the page [[Cellular retinoic acid-binding protein]]. Beneath the title, you will see ''Redirected from [http://www.proteopedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=CRABP&redirect=no CRABP]''. Click on [http://www.proteopedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=CRABP&redirect=no CRABP] to see the page titled CRABP that redirects to [[Cellular retinoic acid-binding protein]].