Help:Search shortcuts

We strive to make search one of the primary modes of navigating through the content on the website. If you're using a computer (rather than a phone or tablet) there is a search bar at the top right of the page. With other devices such as phone or tablet, the search bar may appear at a somewhat different location in the page. As you type text into the search bar, the wiki automatically looks for completions and these appear in a drop-down menu. Only the first ten completions (lexicographically) appear at any given time, so if your completion doesn't immediately appear, it may well be because you haven't typed a sufficiently long string.

In addition to names of actual pages, the automatic completion also looks for redirect pages, i.e., pages that redirect to other pages. We've used this functionality to create a lot of shortcut techniques to finding pages that matter. Some of these are listed below.