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W Helping make the Internet not suck since 2004	Stats and logs Basics Username: WikiLeon User ID: 109364 Status: Template Editor, Rollbacker, File Mover, Pending Changes Reviewer Skin: Timeless Additional Stats: see this page Archived Page admin stats Times protected/unprotected pages: 18 Pages deleted: 811 Pages restored: 25 Archived User admin stats Users blocked: 794 Users unblocked: 63 Users reblocked: 26 Userrights changes: 6
Wikipedia Today Searching Wikipedia with regular expressions (regex) Searching with regex online To search Wikipedia live with regular expressions, use the insource: parameter, followed by your regex search string enclosed in forward slashes, like this: /regular expression/. Here is an example: insource:/(Abraham|Abe) Lincoln/ insource searches the wikitext version of articles, and so, wikiformatting codes can be included in the search string. If any characters you wish to find are used as special characters within regex, they will need to be "escaped" by preceding each with a backslash. For a cheat sheet on writing regexes, see Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Regular expression. For case insensitive searches, include an "i" after the closing forward slash. Searching with regex offline To search all of Wikipedia offline using regex, you need to download the Wikipedia database and do the search offline with AutoWikiBrowser's Database Scanner. Activate it from the tools menu in AutoWikiBrowser (AWB). It returns the names of the pages that match your query, which you can have sent directly to AWB's list maker (then you can use AWB to view them all). The Database Scanner has many features, and each query can be easily configured to match, exclude, specify namespaces, ignore redirects, etc. as you see fit. Other methods of searching Wikipedia with regular expressions To search Wikipedia titles with regex, use Grep. To search within the current page use the edit window: If source editing, use the "Search and replace" dialog by clicking the magnifying glass icon at the far right of the "Advanced" toolbar. If visual editing, type Ctrl-F to get the search box, then click the "(.*)" icon for regular expressions. Regular expressions are also supported by the WikEd text editor gadget. AutoWikiBrowser can do regex search/replaces, on a list of articles that you provide it. Prior tip – Tips library – Next tip Read more: The insource: parameter Regular expression (regex)   AutoWikiBrowser (AWB)   WikEd help   Today's motto... → Virtute et armis ("by valor and arms")	Welcome My name is Leon. I've been a Wikipedian since the early noughties. I was a Wikipedia administrator for ten years, but now semi-retired.
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