How to search information on Wikipedia?
How to search information on Wikipedia?
To perform a search, just type ‘wiki’ in your browser’s address bar, then a space, then the name of the article you want. Live suggestions from Wikipedia are displayed as you type. You can also highlight any word or phrase on the web, and an option to search in Wikipedia will appear in the context menu.
How Wikipedia Works technically?
Wikipedia is written collaboratively by largely anonymous volunteers. Anyone with Internet access and in good standing can write and make changes to Wikipedia articles, except in limited cases where editing is restricted to prevent disruption or vandalism.
How does Wikipedia collect data?
We actively collect some types of information with a variety of commonly-used technologies. These generally include tracking pixels, JavaScript, and a variety of “locally stored data” technologies, such as cookies and local storage.
What does Wikipedia use for search?
Wikipedia uses a powerful search engine, with a search box on every page. The search box will navigate directly to a given page name upon an exact match. But, you can force it to show you other pages that include your search string by including a tilde character ~ anywhere in the query.
How does search field work?
Search Bar in HTML is a text field for searching the content if we know the keyword in between the actual sentence. Generally, the search box is always added within the navigation bar. We can also add buttons, drop-down lists, and anchors in the navigation bar as per client requirements, along with the search box.
What platform does Wikipedia use?
PHP
Wikipedia is powered by the MediaWiki software, which was originally written to run Wikipedia and is now an open source project. MediaWiki uses PHP running on a MySQL database.
What server does Wikipedia use?
Linux
The Wikipedia servers’ operating system is Linux, using the Debian distribution.
Where does Wikipedia store its data?
In an era when Google and Microsoft can spend a half-billion dollars on one of their global data center projects, Wikipedia runs on fewer than 300 servers from a single data center in Tampa, Fla. It also has servers in Amsterdam at the AMS-IX peering exchange.
Is Wikipedia reliable?
Wikipedia is not a reliable source for citations elsewhere on Wikipedia. As a user-generated source, it can be edited by anyone at any time, and any information it contains at a particular time could be vandalism, a work in progress, or simply incorrect.