Help:Searching/sco

The quickest wa tae fynd information in is tae luik it up directlie. In the Vector skin (the defaut MediaWiki skin sin MW 1.16), naur the tap richt o ilka page thaur's ae kist wi ae magneefiein glaiss icon

Enter yer rake terms n press Enter or clap the magneefiein glaiss icon. Gif ae page haes the same title aes whit ye entered, ye jump straicht til that page. Itherwise, it rakes aw pages oan the wiki (wi some restreections, see ablo), n gies ae leet o airticles that matched yer rake terms, or ae message that nae matches were fond. If a page has the same title as what you entered, you jump straight to that page. Otherwise, it searches all pages on the wiki (with some restrictions, see below), and presents a list of articles that matched your search terms, or a message informing you that no page has all the key words and phrases.



Hou it wairks

 * It Rakes aw pages oan the wiki wi some restreections.
 * The airticle content is rakit in its raw (wikitex) form - i.e., it rakes the tex that kiths in the eedit kist whan ye clap “”, na the rendered page. This means that content comin fae aen incluied template will na be picked up, bit the tairget o pipet links will be.

So if your search term includes the word 'book', the results will not include pages that only have the word 'books' or 'booklet'. And if your search term includes the term 'inter', the results will not include pages that only have the word 'international', but they may include pages that have the term 'inter-national'. A phrase can be considered to consist of whole words, so the phrase 'Prime Minister' will not be found by a search for "ime Min", but it will be found by a search for "Prime Minister".
 * The rake functionalitie can be conseedered tae operate oan hale wairds, separated bi spaces or ither punctuation maurks. Sae gif yer rake term incluids the waird 'buik', the ootcomes will na incluid pages that yinlie hae the waird 'buiks' or 'buiklet'.  N gif yer rake term incluids the term 'inter', the ootcomes will na incluid pages that yinlie hae the waird 'international', bit thay micht incluid pages that hae the term 'inter-national'.
 * The ootcomes will yinlie incluid pages that contain aw the wairds in yer rake.
 * You can search for all words that begin with a prefix by adding  at the end of a word in your query. For example,   will return results for   and.
 * You can search for a phrase using double quotes.



Restreectin the rake
Gif ye clap the “” button wioot fillin oniething in, ye'll be taen til “Special:Search”, that gies ye extra rakin opties (available fae onie rake ootcomes leet ava)

Ye micht fynd it uissfu tae restreect ae rake til pages wiin ae parteecular namespace e.g., yinlie rake wiin the     pages. Check the namespaces that ye need fer this rake.