Help:Contents
Using the Grand Prix Legends Wiki should be simple.
You may find a direct link at the bottom of the main page. Or the much easier way is to use the search/go option. Should work very well which is a reason why we have used a wiki to store all the important articles here.
Contents
Some Tips
Maybe the Categories might help too
You can try this: Special:Categories to see what categories exist as well as to navigate to the pages.
Avoid short and common words
This is the most likely cause of an unexpected failed search. If your search terms include a common "stop word" (such as "the", "one", "your", "more", "right", "while", "when", "who", "which", "such", "every", "about", "onto"), then your search will fail without any results. Short numbers, and words that appear in half of all pages, will also not be found. In this case, drop those words and rerun the search.
Search is case-insensitive
The searches for "fortran", "Fortran" and "FORTRAN" all return the same results.
Words with special characters
In a search for a word with a [diaeresis], such as Sint Odiliënberg, it depends whether this ë is stored as one character or as "ë". In the first case one can simply search for Odilienberg (or Odiliënberg); in the second case it can only be found by searching for Odili, euml and/or nberg. This is actually a bug that should be fixed -- the entities should be folded into their raw character equivalents so all searches on them are equivalent. See also [Help:Special characters].
Phrase
Search for a phrase by enclosing it in double quotation marks.
Wildcard
You can use a wildcard *, at the end of a search term only. To search for pages with the words "boat" or "boats" search like this: "boat*". You cannot use "*boat" to find Riverboat, etc.
Searching limitations and Gotchas
No regular expressions
You cannot use [regular expression]s.
Words in single quotes
If a word appears in a page with single quotes, you can only find it if you search for the word with quotes. Since this is rarely desirable it is better to use double quotes in pages, for which this problem does not arise.
An apostrophe is identical to a single quote, therefore Mu'ammar can be found searching for exactly that (and not otherwise). A word with apostrophe s is an exception in that it can be found also searching for the word without the apostrophe and the s.
Delay in updating the search index
For reasons of efficiency and priority, very recent changes to pages are not always immediately taken into account in searches.
Search options
Namespaces searched
The search only applies to the [namespaces] selected in the Preferences. To search the other namespaces check or uncheck the tickboxes in "Search in namespaces" box found at the bottom of a search results page. Depending on the browser, a box may still be checked from a previous search, but may no longer be effective. To be sure the box is in effect, uncheck and recheck it.
Searching the image namespace means searching the image descriptions, i.e. the first parts of the image pages. For searching the titles, use Special:Imagelist.
Searching in single namespaces can also be achieved by typing the namespace, a colon, then the search term in the search box. For example, typing "Talk:Foo" will give all pages containing "foo" in the talk namespace.
The URL for searching a particular namespace is
where "qqq" is used as example for the search term, and the namespaces to be searched are specified.
Thus, e.g.
searches the Template and Template talk namespaces for "test", and
http://wiki.grandprixlegends.info/index.php?title=Special:Search?ns6=1&fulltext=Search&search=jpg
searches the image description pages for "jpg".
To search the Help pages use http://wiki.grandprixlegends.info/index.php?title=Special:Search?ns12=1&fulltext=Search&search=x and replace the x in the URL by the search term. Replacing it in the search box does not work the same: the search is then in the namespaces specified in the preferences, instead of just in the help namespace.
Other possibilities
list of all pages
- Special:Allpages - Alphabetic index for the main namespace
Please note that a-z come after A-Z.
Go button
See also Help:Go button.
Search field
Pressing the [Enter] key while the search field is active is equivalent to clicking on the [Go] button. While this is obvious when using Internet Explorer (tested on version 6), Mozilla (version 1.6 at least) provides no such indication.
Some help from the Wikimedia FAQ
MediaWiki:Mainpage
Allows you to set where the main page is — the page that the user is taken to when they go to the Wikis URL without specifying which page, or when they click on the logo (such as on Wikia Help, Help:Main Page is the main page — http://help.wikia.com/ will take you there since the content of MediaWiki:Mainpage is currently Help:Main Page). The default main page is "Main Page". So, for example, if you wanted the main page of your wiki to be Foobar Rhinoceros, then you would create a MediaWiki:Mainpage on your wiki with only the content: Foobar Rhinoceros
MediaWiki:Description
Allows you to change the text that is inserted into the <meta name="description"... in the header of the page. This text is used by search engines to display a description about the site, rather than random text found on the page. There is a limit of 150 characters (including spaces).
How can I change what the <title> of each page is? Where do I make changes?
Most of the text that you want to change, can be found in the namespace of MediaWiki.
In order to change titles, texts, announcements and the such, go to Special:Allmessages, where you will see the text associated with the pages you wish to change. You need to log in as an administrator (like the one you made when you installed) to edit the protected entries in the MediaWiki namespace.
If you want to change the title in your browser, you need to edit MediaWiki:Pagetitle. Go there and edit it just like you would any other page in your wiki.
In recent versions of MediaWiki, MediaWiki:Pagetitle is $1 - Grand Prix Legends Wiki by default. If Grand Prix Legends Wiki is producing the wrong text for you, you need to set $wgSitename in your LocalSettings.php.
If $wgSitename is correct in LocalSettings.php but Grand Prix Legends Wiki is still wrong, it may be that you're using a user-contributed language file which incorrectly sets $wgSitename to a transliteration of "Wikipedia". Edit the language file to correct this. For example, the Hebrew language file is at languages/LanguageHe.php in your wiki directory.
Don't forget to clear your browser cache after you fix it.
Suggestions or ideas?
If you have ideas/suggestions please contact us. You will find an address later here when we go online.
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