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===Advantages of the wiki search box=== | ===Advantages of the wiki search box=== | ||
You can restrict your search to specified [[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 your ''preferences'' (see link at the top of every page to ''my preferences''). | 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 your ''preferences'' (see link at the top of every page to ''my preferences''). | ||
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. | 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. | ||
