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Search Wikipedia from any web page. To get Wikipedia search results while on any web page, you can temporarily set your web browser's search box to become a Wikipedia search search box, even though you're on another web site; see Help:Searching from a web browser.
Dec 2, 2020 · Select the magnifying glass icon to the right of the Wikipedia search bar or press Enter . Unlike a search engine, a search on Wikipedia won't always take you to a web page with all of the search results.
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Search is a search engine that does a full text search by querying an index database. It offers search syntax and parameters exceeding the capabilities and control of other public search engines that could search Wikipedia.
Wikipedia [note 3] is a free content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and the use of the wiki -based editing system MediaWiki. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history.
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Sep 23, 2021 · To better understand the relationship between Search and Wikipedia, the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that operates Wikipedia, teamed up with DuckDuckGo to explore how people use search engines to get to Wikipedia. DuckDuckGo served over 23 billion search queries in 2020.
Jun 7, 2021 · To help address these questions, the Wikimedia Foundation is releasing a new, faceted dataset on search engine traffic to Wikipedia so you can ask questions like “What is the most common search engine in my country?” or “Which search engine is most-used by Android users?” By Dan Andreescu, Kinneret Gordon, Isaac Johnson, Nicholas Perry.
If you would prefer to create a new page (note: you can only do this if a page does not already exist for the subject), the first step is to search Wikipedia to see if a draft page about the same subject already exists. You can do this by typing the subject into the search bar and then running an advanced search for draft pages.
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