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These words

DescriptionSearches for these words in the title or text.Be aware of the following

• Multiple words can be entered here.
• Punctuation marks and other non-alphanumeric characters (with exception of the colon and comma) will be ignored.
• There may be results that do not contain one or more of your search terms.
• Word stemming is applied. Example: If car is entered, the search will also consider cars. The word stemming is language-specific.

Help pageFull text searchSyntax-equivalent in the normal searchsesame street car

Exactly this text

DescriptionSearches for a specific sequence of characters. Punctuation marks are ignored.Be aware of the following(only valid when using quotation marks, see example below)

• Separate the search phrases by comma or space e.g. "good morning", "hello friend!".
• Punctuation marks and other non-alphanumeric characters (with exception of the colon and comma) will be ignored.
• Search is not case-sensitive.
• Word stemming is not applied.

Help pageWords, phrases, and modifiersSyntax-equivalent in the normal searchWords in quotation marks, for example "Begin at the beginning".

Not these words

DescriptionExcludes pages containing these words from the search.Be aware of the following

• Word stemming is applied. Example: If car is entered, the search will also consider cars. The word stemming is language-specific.

Help pageWords, phrases, and modifiersSyntax-equivalent in the normal searchWords with - before them, for example -elephant.

One of these words

DescriptionAt least one of the search terms has to be included in the page.Help pageWords, phrases, and modifiersSyntax-equivalent in the normal searchWords with OR in between them like Laptop OR Notebook.

Page title contains

DescriptionSearches for pages with titles that contain this wordBe aware of the following

• The search includes redirects.
• Word stemming is applied. Example: If car is entered, the search will also consider cars. The word stemming is language-specific.

Help pageIntitle and incategorySyntax-equivalent in the normal searchWords with intitle: before them like intitle:queen.

Subpages of this page

DescriptionSearches for pages that are subpages of this page.Be aware of the following

• You can only search for subpages of one page at a time.
• Don’t forget to enable the namespaces you want to limit your search to in the namespace filter.
• Do not include the namespace in front of the page name like this: Wikipedia:Redirect.

Help pageSubpageofSyntax-equivalent in the normal searchsubpageof: followed by a page name like subpageof:Redirect. Use double quotes if the parent page contains spaces: subpageof:"Requests for comment".

Pages in these categories

DescriptionSearches for pages that are in these categories and subcategories.Be aware of the following

• Only the first 5 subcategory levels will be included in your search.
• The number of categories is limited to 256.
• You can look for pages in multiple categories.

Help pageDeepcategorySyntax-equivalent in the normal searchdeepcategory: followed by a category name like deepcategory:Help. Use double quotes if the name contains spaces: deepcategory:"Hidden categories".

Pages with these templates

DescriptionSearches for pages that contain exactly these templates.Be aware of the following

• You can find transcluded templates (templates consisting of other templates).
• The autosuggest function can only find templates which start the same way as your search e.g. a search for "com..." will suggest "commons" but not "nowcommons".

Help pageHastemplateSyntax-equivalent in the normal searchWords in quotation marks with hastemplate: before them like hastemplate:"missing information".

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Drawing

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Image formats

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png

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mp3

Video formats

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Document formats

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Other formats

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File type

DescriptionSearches only for files of the selected type.Be aware of the following

• You can only search for one file type.
• You can only select the given file types from the drop-down menu.

Help pagesFiletype and filemimeSyntax-equivalent in the normal searchWords with filetype: before them like filetype:ogg.

File width in pixels

DescriptionThese fields allow you to specify the width of the file.Be aware of the following

• This is only applicable to file types that have width and height, like videos and images.

Help pageFilemeasuresSyntax-equivalent in the normal searchNumbers with filew before them like filew:>800.

File height in pixels

DescriptionThese fields allow you to specify the height of the file.Be aware of the following

• This is only applicable to file types that have width and height, like videos and images.

Help pageFilemeasuresSyntax-equivalent in the normal searchNumbers with fileh before them like fileh:>600.

Sorting order

DescriptionChange the sorting order of results. The standard is that most relevant pages are placed on top of the results.Help pageExplicit sort ordersSyntax-equivalent in the normal searchThis feature has no keyword that you can type in the search input field since the function is specified via a parameter in the URL.