Search KwikiEH

KwikiEH has a pretty fast, flexible search. The blank box on the left-hand side is the search box. In brief, you can use complex Boolean searches. Searches don’t distinguish between upper and lower case letters.

Boolean Search

• To find SOME of a set of words (an OR search), just enter into the box:
  • milk cookies plate
• To find documents with ALL of a set of words, put the list in quotes:
  • “milk cookies plate”
• You can also use “OR”, “or”, or “

milk OR cookies

” to indicate an OR search.

plate which gives the same as milk cookies plate

• You can use “AND”, “and”, or “&” for AND searches. You can also use NOT (or !, or not).
• To find two words on the same line, use
  • word1 = word2
  • (‘is’ can be used instead of ’=’).
• You can combine any of the terms. It’s best to use parentheses to group terms.
  • ((vodka or milk) & cookies) and !bedtime
• If you don’t, precedence order is NOT, = , AND, OR. So,
  • !article proceedings is (NOT article) OR proceedings

Wildcards

• cook*s matches any words with arbitrary text where the (*) appears.
• cook?s matches any word with one or zero characters between cook and s
• cook+s matches any word with one or more characters between cook and s
• You can use these wildcards in combination with all the logical structure above.

Keywords

• KwikiEH indexes ‘keywords’ specially.
  • These are hidden words on your page, written as [. key1 key2].
  • These can be searched using .key1
  • (Notice the leading period. You need it for every keyword.)
• This is particularly handy when used with the ’=’ search. Hence you can do searches like
  • .author=((Tall

This will work if you take care to put your keywords on the same line as their intended value. This means putting a return in the wikitext; don’t worry, only two returns in a row can cause a line break, so your formatting won’t change. If you use your imagination, you can use this kwiki as a freeform database.

Dubinsky) & Vinner) & piaget & .year=1995

• A page named Pagename automatically is found by .pageid = Pagename.

Parameters

• There are some parameters you can set by editing the URL. To get search results 20 at a time, you would add&atatime=20 to the search URL. To start the result at item 70, add &start=70. To get 500 characters of found word context, add &context=500. You can use these all together as in:
  • index.cgi?search=vinner&atatime=20&start=70&context=500