{"id":43,"date":"2017-12-07T02:42:17","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T02:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wiki-source\/?p=43"},"modified":"2017-12-07T13:08:31","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T13:08:31","slug":"searching-wikisource","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wiki-source\/searching-wikisource\/","title":{"rendered":"Searching Wikisource"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The search box available at the top right of Wikisource uses:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_44\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wiki-source\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/12\/badger.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-44\" src=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wiki-source\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/12\/badger-1024x240.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wiki-source\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/12\/badger-1024x240.png 1024w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wiki-source\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/12\/badger-300x70.png 300w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wiki-source\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/12\/badger-768x180.png 768w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wiki-source\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/12\/badger.png 1268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Search techniques on Wikisource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Searching can also be done with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Special:SpecialPages\">special pages<\/a>, mostly the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Special:Search\">Special:Search<\/a> page, or by an external search engine like Google.<\/li>\n<li>The search box available at the top right of every page uses <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Special:Search\"><u>Special:Search<\/u><\/a><u>.<\/u><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Subjects can also be found and browsed in two main ways on Wikisource:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Categories<\/li>\n<li>Portals<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Subjects includes medium, genre, era and any other group of works. Think of them as different rooms or sections in a physical library.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Portals<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Portal:Portals\">Portals<\/a> usually list texts related to a specific topic (Providing more info than category searches) e.g. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Portal:Religion\">Portal:religious texts.<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Portal:Portals\">List of portals on Wikisource.\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Portals are listed in the header of a work. These link to a portal page, which is a user-written list of all works on Wikisource on that subject. The portal may also link to other portals on similar subjects and it will be categorised like any other page. The list of works in a portal can be in whatever order <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Portal:Physics\">the creator<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Portal:Physics\">of the portal<\/a>, or future editors, thought would be best to display those works. For exam<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Portal:Physics\">ple,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Portal:Physics\">Portal:Physics<\/a> shows all the pages on the subject of Physics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Categories<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Categories are listed at the bottom of each page. These link to a category page, which will show an automatically-generated list of all of the pages on Wikisource in that subject. At the bottom of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Category:Physics\">category page<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Category:Physics\">will<\/a> be links to other categories. This list will be in alphabetical order. For example, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Category:Physics\">Category:Physics<\/a> shows all the pages in the Physics category.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prefix search<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you have the start of the title of the page, you can use <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Special:PrefixIndex\">Special:PrefixIndex<\/a> instead to search for all works that begin in a certain way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Searching Wikisource with Google<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you want to use an external search engine, remember to limit the results to Wikisource. For example, if using Google, add the text &#8220;site:en.wikisource.org&#8221; \u00a0to your search.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Random search<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is also possible to jump to a random item by using the special page <u><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Special:Random\">Special:Random<\/a><\/u>. This will link to any page on Wikisource, not just works in the library.<\/p>\n<p><u><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Special:RandomRootpage\">Special:Randomrootpage<\/a><\/u> will exclude subpages.This can be changed to pick random pages from specific namespaces, such as:<\/p>\n<p><u><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Special:Random\/Author\">Special:Random\/Author<\/a><\/u> or <u><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Special:Random\/Category\">Special:Random\/Categor<\/a><\/u><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Special:Random\/Category\">y<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Special:Random\/Category\">.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>NEXT &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wiki-source\/what-can-i-upload-to-wikisource\/\">What can you upload to Wikisource?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wiki-source\/\"><strong>HOME<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The search box available at the top right of Wikisource uses: Searching can also be done with special pages, mostly the Special:Search page, or by an external search engine like Google. 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