No regular expressions or wildcards You cannot use regular expressions or wildcards such as ? or *. If you don't know what that is, don't worry about it. To search for pages with the words "boat" or "boats" search like this: "boat or boats".

Phrase There is no method for searching for a phrase. Contrary to what you might expect, enclosing phrases in double quotation marks such as "can of tuna" will retrieve all pages containing "of" "tuna" and "can".

Source: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Search

Regards, Jan

Uwe Baumbach schrieb:

Hi around,

can someone give me a hint where to find a _correct_ description of (title and text) search behavior?

Particularly:

• AND, OR, NOT - active or not? configurable?
• Wildcards - active or not? configurable?
• text search finds "Houses" in "[[House]]s" - in one version does in other not?!

Depends this on the used search engine?

Thanks.

Uwe (Baumbach) U.Baumbach@web.de

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