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Worthy of consideration

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Tip of the moment...
Searching Wikipedia with regular expressions (regex)
Searching with regex online

To search Wikipedia live with regular expressions, use the insource: parameter, followed by your regex search string enclosed in forward slashes, like this: /regular expression/. Here is an example:

insource:/(Abraham|Abe) Lincoln/

insource searches the wikitext version of articles, and so, wikiformatting codes can be included in the search string. If any characters you wish to find are used as special characters within regex, they will need to be "escaped" by preceding each with a backslash. For a cheat sheet on writing regexes, see Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Regular expression.

For case insensitive searches, include an "i" after the closing forward slash.

Searching with regex offline

To search all of Wikipedia offline using regex, you need to download the Wikipedia database and do the search offline with AutoWikiBrowser's Database Scanner. Activate it from the tools menu in AutoWikiBrowser (AWB). It returns the names of the pages that match your query, which you can have sent directly to AWB's list maker (then you can use AWB to view them all). The Database Scanner has many features, and each query can be easily configured to match, exclude, specify namespaces, ignore redirects, etc. as you see fit.

Other methods of searching Wikipedia with regular expressions
  • To search Wikipedia titles with regex, use Grep.
  • To search within the current page use the edit window:
    • If source editing, use the "Search and replace" dialog by clicking the magnifying glass icon at the far right of the "Advanced" toolbar.
    • If visual editing, type Ctrl-F to get the search box, then click the "(.*)" icon for regular expressions.
    • Regular expressions are also supported by the WikEd text editor gadget.
  • AutoWikiBrowser can do regex search/replaces, on a list of articles that you provide it.
Read more:
The insource: parameter
Regular expression (regex)  
AutoWikiBrowser (AWB)  
WikEd help  
To add this auto-randomizing template to your user page, use {{totd-random}}

Questions to which I would like answers

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Data duplication

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How can I avoid data duplication in a table such as the one here? Is there a way to store/use a value into/from a variable? In the example cited, I am duplicating data three times in each row. There must be a better way!

How to hide entire rows of a table?

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I hid individual cells of a table here. How can I hide entire rows?

Pages holding interest for me

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Pages I watch and to which I occasionally contribute

Page Last modification Last modified by Views this year
Draft:List of contributors to Project 2025 2025-05-20 16:52 ToadetteEdit 122
List of birds of Vermont 2025-04-29 02:15 Ser Amantio di Nicolao 4,362
List of mammals of Vermont 2025-10-03 16:49 Monkbot 1,785
List of amphibians of Vermont 2025-03-04 17:34 Andy02124 381
List of reptiles of Vermont 2025-08-14 18:45 Trackerwannabe 198
List of fishes of Vermont 2025-06-23 22:10 Plantdrew 110
List of birds of New Hampshire 2025-11-26 23:11 Waterfaux 5,748
List of mammals of New Hampshire 2025-10-03 10:20 Monkbot 287
User:Trackerwannabe/Draft:List of trees of Vermont 2025-01-09 10:15 Fayenatic london 34
User:Trackerwannabe/Draft:List of amphibians of New Hampshire 2024-08-28 15:04 Trackerwannabe 110
User:Trackerwannabe/Draft:Thomas F. Tyning 2024-09-01 21:04 Trackerwannabe 216

Pages at which I occasionally glance and to which I may contribute at some point.
(Someday, I may also use one or more of these as the basis for a new page.)

Page Last modification Last modified by Views this year
List of birds of New York (state) 2025-11-15 23:39 Waterfaux 22,026
List of mammals of New York 2025-06-28 06:28 GreenC bot 7,476
List of birds of Massachusetts 2025-11-25 00:33 SchreiberBike 9,051
List of mammals of Massachusetts 2025-10-04 11:58 Monkbot 5,804
List of amphibians of Massachusetts 2025-04-29 02:04 Ser Amantio di Nicolao 670
List of reptiles of Massachusetts 2025-04-29 02:24 Ser Amantio di Nicolao 2,181
List of birds of Maine 2025-07-30 20:15 172.101.51.227 6,752
List of mammals of New England 2026-01-02 06:01 CaribDigita 6,216
List of trees of Georgia (U.S. state) 2025-12-21 23:54 Mitch Ames 4,540

of limited import

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