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Line 7: [[File:System-search.svg\|120px\|right\|link=]] The '''search box''' is one of the most useful features of Wikipedia. It can be found in the top right of the screen. Start typing in it and it will begin to suggest pages you might be looking for — you can click on one to go directly to that page. Alternatively, if you type in an page title and hit Enter, you will also be taken straight to that page. If you type a word or phrase which isn't an article title and hit Enter, then it will take you to the full [[Special:Search\|search page]], which lists articles where your search term occurs. You can also reach this page by typing something into the search box, then clicking the "containing..." link at the bottom of the list of suggestions. For example you might do this if you wanted to search for occurrences of the word "Fish" across Wikipedia, rather than be taken straight to the article [[Fish]]. The search page also allows you to search the different namespaces which we learnt about earlier. You can choose one of the preset options (Content pages, Multimedia, Help and Project pages, Everything) or you can choose Advanced which allows you to check the individual namespaces you wish to search in. Line 17 ⟶ 19: Some pages on Wikipedia are '''redirects''', they don't have any content of their own but just send you on to another page. For example [[UK]] is a redirect to [[United Kingdom]]. So if you type <code>UK</code> in the search box and press Enter, it will take you directly to the article on the United Kingdom. (There will also be a small note below the article title saying "Redirected from UK", just so you know what happened.) To make a redirect, first create a new page. You can then either use the VisualEditor {{menu icon\|[[File:VisualEditor - Icon - Menu.svg\|22px\|link=]]}} menu and then click {{menu icon\|[[File:VisualEditor - Icon - Settings.svg\|22px\|link=]] Page settings\|non}} to choose a destination page, or you can insert the Wiki Markup code: <code><nowiki>#REDIRECT [[Destination]]</nowiki></code>. (Note: it's usually a bad idea to create redirects from one namespace to another)

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