Many users and readers might be unaware of the great improvements to the standard Commons search.
As an example, if you type "Dentistry incategory:Files_from_Wellcome_Images" in the search bar, this returns a list of 267 thumbnail images of where "Dentistry" appears in the file name or as text on the image page.[1] If we use insource:/dentist/ this includes dentist, dentistry, dentiste, etc. which then reports back 359 possible images.[2]
There are a number of other possible search options beyond searching within a category, including searching by similar words or fuzzy matches or limiting to words in the title.[3] It is definitely worth spending a couple of minutes reading up on the special CirrusSearch options and having a good play around with it, if you have not tried it before.
Links 1. http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=Dentistry+incategory%3AFiles... 2. http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=... 3. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch
On 23 January 2015 at 12:17, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
I often think we need a reverse FIST, i.e. a tool to produce suggestions of usage for files in a category. Didn't we have something like that at some point? https://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/fist.php
Nemo
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