WikiSexGuide:Search help

The Mediawiki software we use for making WikiSexGuide provides a nice full-text search engine system. To search for any name or term used in articles on WikiSexGuide, type the word or words into the Find box on any Wikisexguide page and hit the OK button.

Articles that match the search terms in the title of the article will be listed, followed by articles that match the search term in the article text. The first 50 or so articles that match will be shown on the search results page; you can use the View links to change the number and order of result article links.

When you enter more than one word into the Find box, articles that match any one of those words will be used. You can modify this behavior as follows:

• Use a plus sign (+) to indicate that a word must be in the results. Searching for +Amsterdam +Prostitutes will give results that must have both the words Amsterdam and Prostitutes in them.
• Use a minus sign (-) to indicate that a word must not be in the results. For example, searching for Prostitutes -Amsterdam will find articles that mention the word Prostitutes but not the word Amsterdam.
• Use double quotes (") to indicate a phrase that should be considered as a whole. For example, searching for "Amsterdam Prostitutes" will find only articles that contain the words Amsterdam and Prostitutes right next to each other in that order.

You can modify the way full-text searching works using the user preferences page.

When there are no search results

First, double-check that you've spelled everything right, and you used the correct search syntax above.

IF the word you searched for only has 1, 2 or 3 letters, then you may not get a result. This is because common words like an and the appear too often, and are eliminated by the 3 letter limit.

If you are looking for an article name with 1, 2 or 3 letters in it, or one of the words in the title only has 3 letters in it, try the Go search, rather than the Search search. Or if you are certain the article exists, try the Special:Allpages index.

But if your search really did come up empty, it probably means we don't have an article about your subject. We're sorry about that; our goal is to be a complete and world-wide sex guide, and apparently we haven't covered something you're interested in.