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The Bitcoin SV network and the infamous Craig Wright have been publicly scrutinized by two well known individuals. Wikipedias Jimmy Wales criticized BSV technology and said he doesnt think recorded data from Wikipedia would be beneficial stored on a blockchain like BSV. Moreover, former Star Trek actor William Shatner tweeted about Craig Wrights claim of being the creator of Bitcoin and told the public Wrights bonded courier story is a scene right out of the film Back to the Future.

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On February 10, a few days after the Bitcoin SV Genesis hard fork, Arthur van Pelt tweeted about the number of nodes on the BSV network dropping like a rock. Six days after the BSV Genesis downgrade, it appears more and more to me that some 80-85 nodes have forked off and are creating a new chain after block 620538, van Pelt stressed. Another 30 nodes are left behind in the process [and] only 250 nodes are now left A year ago, BSV had 636 nodes.

In addition to the node issues this week, the public has been observing a conversation between BSV supporters and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. Prominent BSV supporters like Kevin Pham and Daniel Krawisz tweeted to Wales and said that it would be beneficial to Wikipedia if the company adopted the BSV chain. It would be so cheap to record enough information about all Wikipedia interactions on the BSV blockchain, Krawisz explained in a recent tweet. What the blockchain does though is record an immutable record of the history of a Wikipedia pages edits, Pham tweeted to Wales. The Wikipedia founder responded to Phams comment:

We have that. It is called a database.

When Wales responded to Krawisz, he noted that he didnt understand what was being proposed. I was just thinking about how you said you didnt like Bitcoin and imagining ways that it could be used to improve Wikipedia. More generally, Bitcoin can help any system to become more Byzantine fault-tolerant, Krawisz replied. The Wikipedia founder again said: But what specifically are you proposing? Following a few more remarks from Krawisz, Wales said that hes thought very deeply about it and stated: You cant even explain what you are proposing.

Wikipedias Jimmy Wales is not the only celebrity speaking about the controversies surrounding BSV. Star Trek star William Shatner gave his thoughts on Craig Wrights claim to being Satoshi Nakamoto as well. A BSV supporter tweeted to Shatner that Craig is Satoshi and BSV is bitcoin. The former actor who played the famous role of Captain Kirk responded Why cant he prove it? From what Ive read is that some mysterious bonded courier would deliver the keys (which honestly is a scene right out of Back to the Future.) If he is, he should be able to prove it. Shatner continued:

This is like the modern-day search for Anastasia.

The Shatner tweet about CSW and the bonded courier got the crypto community all fired up and theres plenty of responses to Shatners tweet. Coingeek owner and BSV advocate Calvin Ayre disagreed with Shatners opinion. He can prove everythingHe had all the evidence in with his lawyers preparing for trial with McClown [podcast host Peter McCormack] which is real proof. He owes us all nothing in this and having keys is not proof like what he is doing in court. Plus to me the proof is out there already if [you are] smart, Ayre tweeted.

Former Bitcoin Foundation director Bruce Fenton replied to Ayres claim. No one asked for proof until he volunteered, Fenton wrote. Shatner again took to Twitter and responded to the BSV communitys statements about his tweet.

Its really amusing to watch these crypto kiddies frothing because I question a statement made by some guy, Shatner detailed. Its almost as bad as the Outlander trolls who have created a fantasy of lies while ignoring everything that has been said [and are] making excuses for it.

A number of people wondered why the Star Trek star was commenting on a cryptocurrency subject, not realizing that Shatner has been involved in the space for quite some time now. Shatner has tweeted about bitcoin, cryptocurrency and blockchain technology on many occasions. Shatner is also involved with a blockchain project called Mattereum, which claims to help prevent collectibles fraud by leveraging a distributed ledger.

What do you think about the recent comments regarding the Bitcoin SV chain? What do you think about Jimmy Wales opinion? Do you agree with William Shatner that CSW has not yet proven anything? Let us know what you think about this topic in the comments section below.

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Two of the UKs most prominent financial technology start-ups have been accused of doctoring their entries on Wikipedia in order to removecriticism.

A Wikipedia user who claimed to be an employee of Curve, theall-in-one card app,deleted the entire Controversy section of the companys Wikipedia entryin December.

Curve's Wikipedia page previously mentioned a report which alleged that only 14pc of the apps users returned every month.

Last month,Curve chief executive Shachar Bialick told the Sunday Telegraphthat a more accurate figure is 80pc and accused the media of publishing lies and untruths.

A Curve spokesman said: "Curve has always maintained transparency when updating items on Wikipedia and adheres to Wikipedias strict conflict of interest guidelines."

Starling Bank, which has signed up more than 1m customers, has also been accused by Wikipedia users of editing its own entryalong with the page for Anne Boden, its chief executive.

One Wikipedia user published a screenshot of a document which they claimed showed Starling Bank employees planning to rewrite the banks entryto make it more positive.

A spokesman for the business confirmedthat adocument had been created to discuss Starling Bank articles being flagged as"too promotional"and "written like an advertisement" and said the pageshad not been written by anyone connected to Starling Bank.

Ms Bodens Wikipedia page was updated this week to include a banner which reads: a major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject.

A similar warning displayed on the page for Starling Bank since December says that parts of the page are written like an advertisement.

One Wikipedia account which has almost exclusively been used to edit Starling Bank pages deleted a section of the banks article which mentioned that it had failed to meet its deadline for launching in Ireland.

The sentence was deleted with the explanation: Too much detail.

A Starling Bank spokesman denied that the business had any connection with the account. He said an employee made edits to the article in 2018 largely to correct inaccuracies"and added that the business had nothing to do with any more recent changes and was baffled as to who was making the changes and why.

A number of Wikipedia articles about prominent technology investors in the UK were deleted in 2018 as users of the website claimed they were not notable enough. Articles about investors including Saul Klein and Deliveroo backer Rob Kniaz were removed from the site.

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E&T staff pick the news from the past week that caught their eye and reflect on what these latest developments in engineering and technology mean to them. For the full story, just click on the headline.

Call me overcautious, but I am somewhat wary of the prospect of Wikipedia articles getting automatic rewrites, even if theyre backed up by some amazing MIT algorithms. Let me explain.

My personal Wikipedia page appeared early in the online encyclopaedias existence, yet I had nothing to do with it. As I found out later, the page was started by Andrew Ball, a young British professor of astronomy, and his colleagues. I didnt know him then.

I discovered the page accidentally while browsing the internet inside the UN headquarters in New York, where I was researching a newspaper column and simultaneously visiting my old university mate Slava, who worked at the UN as an interpreter. There were several PCs for public use in the corridors of the UN skyscraper facing the East River a novelty and a welcome perk in those days.

The article was succinct and simply recounted my bio and career, with only a couple of small inaccuracies. I remember Slava being very impressed by it all and so was I, but as a writer and editor myself, I could not rest until the boo boos were corrected.

It took me several months to track Andrew Ball down. We met for a coffee in Greenwich and he promised to amend the mistakes and expand the article, which he did. Since then, a large number of other people have helped maintain its accuracy, adding a new award or a new book every now and then, and trying to make sure that every new entry is properly referenced.

Wikipedia is a great institution, one of best offshoots of the Internet, I believe. Having spent half of my life in the USSR where dictionaries and other reference books were among the hardest to find (in true Orwellian fashion, the Soviet authorities had a firm monopoly on information), having access to that spectacular treasure trove of facts at a click of a keyboard key is still nothing short of a miracle. I rejoice every time I have to consult Wikipedia and have been trying to support it with small donations. After each, I normally receive a very warm thank you not a computer-generated reply, but a nice and considerate email, written (and signed) by a Wikipedia staffer. This is precisely what worries me aboutthe possibility of automated rewrites: the loss of human touch.

With its immeasurable database and technological prowess, one thing that attracts me about Wikipedia is that is has always been put together, maintained and proof-read by ordinary humans: scientists, writers, engineers, computer programmers. Indeed, I often say to my wife and children, If in doubt, go and ask Wikipedia", as if indeed talking of a flesh-and-blood family member, like some polymath of an auntie or uncle.

Research suggesting that flying at lower altitudes could help reduce the impact of carbon emissions is timely. National leaders are still struggling to agree on a unified effort to qualify carbon-reduction objectives. This years COP26 meeting, to be held in Glasgow, will be critical to achieving progress.

What our coverage on the study fails to mention is a caveat. While it is true that by flying at lower altitudes the effects described are to be expected, the researchers also found that flying during the summer months reduces the contrail energy forcing (EF) more efficiently. Importantly, the algorithm advises flying at higher altitudes during the winter months.

The reason, the authors infer, is seasonal variation of the tropopause height, which tends to be higher during the summer months. They suspect that aircraft might not be able to reach the lower and drier stratosphere even when cruising altitude is increased. In winter, a "lower tropopause height implies that an increase in cruising altitude by 2,000 feet could be sufficient for the aircraft to reach the stratosphere.

Peer-reviewed studies usually come with caveats. Id welcome it if more journalists were more persistent in pointing out any shortcomings, even if they are complicated (its also healthy to try reading the whole study). Manydont, but hey, I get it. Who can blame them? Theyre usually on a tight deadline.

I came across a blogpost recently thatintrigued me, about how to read scientific papers quickly and effectively. I promptly (and shamefully) skim-read the post.

In short, it suggests youskim the abstract first. Then read the conclusion. After that, read the results. Then check the methods section. If there are caveats or limitations by now, you should have stumbled across them. If not, try a cmd+F (word search) on the document and search for limitations. Some of it might also be mentioned in the discussion section, as was the case for this study.

Machine learning (ML) in publishing is becoming ever more popular, though not without backlash from within and outside the sector. Criticism of automation is not confined to publishing, of course.

Examples of how ML adds something include AP's attempts to use MLand natural language models to write news. ML working alongside humans to help with fact-checking and editing stories is one possibility. For me, as an investigative journalist, MLhas played a slightly different but no less important role over the past years: to create journalistic stories with MLmodels and data.

Yesterday, I was cheerfully surprised that some of my experiences and insights in the area could fill a whole room of ambitious journalists - some from major newspapers including the Financial Times, the Times and the Economist. I produced a programming tutorial on how to use ML in investigative journalism.

Despite being great fun, the feedback I received told me that many journalists were surprised by its practical usefulness to pitch stories and investigate bias. Scaring people off to learn about the practicalities of ML is one of the shortcomings. Especially within the engineering sector, I encourage people to give ML a shot. If you want to access the tutorial, feel free to email me at benheubl@theiet.org.

Cute! The Starlight Childrens Foundation, a national charity that aims to help preserve young patients' childhoods throughout serious illness, is using robots to help kids keep in touch with their friends, even if theyre treated in isolation. The 30cm-tall AV1 robot units allow children to communicate remotely with their family, friends and school, or other people in their wards.

Communication with loved ones can also improve on the young patients mental health and tackle the loneliness which children are likely to experience in isolation.

The tech works by putting a portable robot where the child would usually be. The child can then control the robot via a tablet to interact with the surrounding environment by listening, talking and moving it up and down. The robots camera is also controlled by the child and the user can control the units four programmed facial expressions happy, sad, confused or neutral.

Unlike conventional, two-way communication apps, the AV1 does not have a screen showing the child, avoiding the risk of the patient feeling self-conscious about their treatment. This is lovely.

Starlight is now piloting the robots at St Oswalds Hospice in Newcastle, the Royal Surrey Hospital and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Lewisham, London.

This story reminded me of distant schooldays, when a broken leg meant an individual effectively vanished from school life for weeks or even months on end. Children being very much the 'live in the moment' types, said individual could find themselves largely forgotten, not through any cruel intentions, just a case of how things are. The idea of a cute robot that can physically sit in for the poorly child amongst its friends - helping them remain involved and engaged with their social life in their temporary absence - is a very sweet and supportive idea. Trials have gone well so far, so here's hoping these friendly robots will be standing in for many more absent young friends in the future.

What is it with tech companies and their obsession with flip phones? This Samsung story came out in the same week that Motorola was obliged to rigorously defend the longevity of its resurrected Razr phone, after a certain gadget test site estimated that it might not even survive a single year of real-world use. We thoroughly modern humans check our phones a lot - way more than when flip phones were first a thing, back in the late 90s/early 00s - so that hinge design is getting a lot more action than ever it did before. You don't have to be an engineering genius to see that it's a fairly obvious critical point of failure. Folding phones look cool, but by the sound of it you may need a good deal of the folding stuff just to keep up with the repair bills.

It's a big deal cancelling a trade show the size of MWC, but then the coronavirus is a very big threat. Wise decision.

Was there a chink of light in the news this week among all the environmental doom and gloom? It turns out world energy emissions were unexpectedly level last year, raising hopes that we've reached peak carbon levels. Let's hope so. Weve seen easing before, but due more to economics than engineering or politics. We might even expect to see an environmental silver lining to the cloud of coronavirus. Travel restrictions; extended holidays; suspended manufacturing; closed retailers, and cancelled international events such asMWC are regrettable, but better for the environment, albeittemporarily. Lets not forget that climate-related phenomena like Australias bush fires will probably more than compensate.

The Extinction Rebellion camp have a mantra that the world has done nothing about global warming - especially the generation that most of our readers belong to. It may be true that it hasnt done enough, or too little too late, but it's simply not true it has done nothing. As our readers will testify, industry has for decades been developing and investing in renewables in the energy sector, for example, and the latest figures would indicate this long-term effort is now making a real difference. There's a long, long way to go, but there are now signs that other sectors of industry are starting to take the problem seriously, too, and applying engineering in new and imaginative ways and with greatervigour.

A lot of sensible ideas here about how to address the disproportionately small number of women working in engineering; sensible not least because theyre largely based on personal experience. Dr Rachael Ambury, a senior scientist with synthetic diamond manufacturer Element Six, contributed her thoughts to mark Tuesdays International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Not only has she navigated her way through the profession, shes also experienced the challenges of getting young women interested in it through outreach work in secondary schools that last year won her an award from the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining.

It comes as no surprise that shes convinced one of the biggest obstacles in this area is the need to dispel myths and stereotypes that encourage girls to make choices at school which gradually close off routes to a career in STEM.

Publishing her considered take on what the priorities should be to speed up the glacially slow pace at which change is occurring proved to be an education in itself. Click on any of the links in this selection of news stories published on the E&T website in the past week and youll see that each one is led by a relevant and hopefully eye-catching image. Where the subject isnt a specific engineering project or person, that means we often rely on libraries of royalty-free photography the professional equivalent of the clip art supplied with a package like Microsoft Office.

The knack is knowing what search terms will find the sort of picture that works with your story. Sometimes a good choice will turn up the perfect image immediately; with this story it was more a case of either trawling through hundreds or working through a gradual process of elimination.

Start with woman engineer and youll first need to wade throughseveral pages full ofphotos of women in hard hats. Then theres the sexy engineers (yes, sadly, sexy engineer is a valid search term for some photo libraries and will return a host of pictures) or geeky engineers with cartoonishly big glasses.

Eventually, with no little patience, a persistent user can find a picture that comes close to resembling a real-life woman doing real engineering, which we hope is what weve achieved. No wonder, though, that myths about hard hats are proving so hard to shake off. A picture really does achieve as much as a thousand words in some contexts and not everyones going to be as conscientious as E&T about finding an appropriate one.

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In an effort to develop its consumer base, the Epic Video games Retailer has been gifting away free video games every week kind of because it launched. Whereas these weekly giveaways have been initially set to finish as 2019 wrapped, Epic kicked off the 12 months by saying that it could proceed to supply free weekly video games all through all of 2020. This weeks free recreation is a giant one, because its a title that RPG followers can actually sink their enamel into.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance is now free on the Epic Video games Retailer and can stay free till February 20th. Kingdom Come: Deliverance obtained numerous consideration at launch attributable to its give attention to historic accuracy. Set within the Kingdom of Bohemia within the 12 months 1403, youll play as Henry, who begins the sport because the son of a blacksmith and units out on a quest of vengeance when his city is invaded and his household is murdered.

These seeking to dive into Kingdom Come: Deliverance can anticipate a troublesome time at first. Skills and expertise get higher as you employ them, and since Henry begins the sport with out a lot information within the methods of fight, combating with a sword or bow might be tough at first. The fight system is pretty complicated too, so anticipate to spend a while studying its ins and outs.

Becoming a member of Kingdom Come: Deliverance is a recreation referred to as Aztez, which is billed as a distinctive hybrid of beat em up and turn-based technique, set on the earth of the Aztec Empire. The sport includes a largely black and white colour palette, and if nothing else, it positively has fashion.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance and Aztez will each be free till February 20th, at which level theyll get replaced by Faeria, a card recreation the place the board modifications as you play. Were unsure if one other recreation might be becoming a member of Faeria subsequent week, however well preserve our eyes out for extra.

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This article provides a detailed overview of Wikipedia's search feature, and instructions on using external search engines, such as Google, to find information. For a short introduction to searching Wikipedia, see Look it up.

Enter your keywords in the search box.

The "go" function uses an algorithm to decide what page you're likely to be interested in, and this usually masks its case sensitivity - but not always. For more details about this please see Wikipedia:Go button.

If your search terms include a common "stop word" (such as "the", "your", "more", "right", "while", "when", "who", "which", "such", "every", "about"), you may see many irrelevant results. Historically, these words could not be searched at all, but as of February 2006, Wikipedia's Lucene index does not use "stop words", so any word can be successfully used in search queries.

Be careful about limited wildcards, as they take a toll on the server. See Boolean fulltext search for details on their use.

In a search for a word with a diaeresis, such as Sint Odilinberg, it depends whether this is stored as one character or as "ë". In the first case one can simply search for Odilienberg (or Odilinberg); 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 Wikipedia:Special characters.

If a word appears in an article 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 articles for which this problem does not arise. See the manual of style for more info.

An apostrophe is identical to a single quote, therefore the name Mu'ammar can be found only by searching for exactly that (and not otherwise). A word with 's is an exception in that it can be found also by searching for the word without the apostrophe and the s.

A phrase can easily be found by enclosing it in double quotes. For example, "holly dolly" returns six matches; holly dolly (two standalone words) returns 197.

The search only applies to the namespaces selected in the user's 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 without being effective any longer! To make sure, uncheck and recheck it.

Searching the image namespace means searching the image descriptions, i.e. the first parts of the image description pages.

The source text (what one sees in the edit box, also called wiki text) is searched. This distinction is relevant for piped links, for interlanguage links (to find links to Chinese articles, search for zh, not for Zhongwen), special characters (if is coded as ê it is found searching for ecirc), etc.

For reasons of efficiency and priority, very recent changes are not always immediately taken into account in searches.

Special:Linksearch is a tool for searching for links from Wikipedia articles to sites outside Wikipedia. For example, all Wikipedia pages linking to Yahoo.com.

Recently, new internal search engines were created. These search engines can search Wikipedia articles, meanwhile they are user-friendly and are integrated into Wikipedia for a good experience. They aren't as good as external search engines though.

Various search engines can provide domain-specific searches, which let you search Wikipedia specifically. Searches are based on the text as shown by the browser, so wiki markup is irrelevant. Depending on your browser, you may also be able to use tools that allow you to search Wikipedia using bookmarklets.

In general, external search engines are faster than a Wikipedia search. However, because the search engine's cache is based on when the site was indexed, the search may not return newly created pages. Similarly, the search engine's cached version of the page will not be as up-to-date as the link to Wikipedia itself. Also, when returning Wikipedia articles in a regular search, mirrors and forks of Wikipedia content frequently rank higher than the actual Wikipedia articles because of search engine optimization techniques.

These issues may be less of a problem when using certain search engines that process Wikipedia differently:

By following the link below, you can use the Clusty search engine to search and cluster Wikipedia in English only.

If you frequently search via Clusty, consider installing the Clusty Toolbar (beta). Selecting the "Encyclopedia" search source allows you to quickly search the English version of Wikipedia. The Clusty Toolbar is available for Windows with Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox (beta).

FUTEF is a site, currently in beta, limited to Wikipedia content. Besides basic keyword and full text search providing a list of relevant articles, it also lists related categories in a sidebar.

By following the links below, you can use the Google search engine to search Wikipedia - either all languages, or English-only. Google indexes all namespaces.

If you frequently search via Google, consider installing the Google Toolbar. Using the "search this site" button allows you to quickly search the English version of Wikipedia. The official Google Toolbar is available in versions for Firefox (Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows) and Internet Explorer (Microsoft Windows).

Wikipedia markup allows you to insert links to Google searches by including google: as the prefix for the link. This can sometimes be useful on talk pages. It is done like this:

Which looks like this:

Note: It is important not to use spaces in the search. To add more parameters to the search, separate them by a plus sign, +. For a phrase search, use a hyphen (minus sign), -, between each word. E.g. to search for "Tip of the day", use Tip-of-the-day.

To provide a link to a Wikipedia-specific search, include in the google-link +site:en.wikipedia.org (no spaces before or after), like this:

Which looks like this:

To clean up the link so that only the part you want to show is presented, use the pipe, like this:

Which makes it look like this:

LuMriX is a dynamic query tool which uses lookahead to predict search terms in a list, similar to Google Suggest.

By following the link below, you can use the LuMriX search engine to search different language versions of Wikipedia.

If you frequently search via LuMriX, consider installing the LuMriX Firefox Search Plugin (works on all operating system platforms for which Firefox is available, such as Windows, Linux and Mac OS X).

There is a full-featured advanced search engine at Lycos UK. It is more powerful than Wikipedia's search box, and you can limit searches to a specific URL, such as the Wikipedia website. Here's how. Click on the provided link above, and then enter your search term. Then scroll down to the domain section and add "wikipedia.org" in the box provided. Then click "Go".

Qwika is designed specifically to index wikis. Its main index is Wikipedia and includes:

This can assist editors contributing to non-English Wikipedias by being able to search in their own language across the entire English version and then view the machine-translated version in their language.

Wikiwax is a dynamic query like LuMriX. It only searches English Wikipedia, but shows more list entries.

By following the links below, you can use the Yahoo! search engine to search Wikipedia - either all languages or English-only.

If you frequently search via Yahoo!, consider installing the Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Using the "Search Only the Current Site" button allows you to quickly search the English version of Wikipedia. The official Yahoo! Companion Toolbar is only for Windows with Internet Explorer and Mozilla.

Here are more Wikipedia:Tools which make searching more convenient.

Listed below are ways to search Wikipedia with Mozilla-based browsers, including Mozilla Suite, Mozilla Firefox, and Netscape 6 and 7.

Works with: Mozilla Suite, Mozilla Firefox, Netscape 6/7.

Mozilla and Netscape 6 & 7 come with a sidebar that allows a user to search the Wikipedia site, and Firefox has a toolbar item to do the same. To install the search plugin that tells Mozilla how to search Wikipedia, do the following:

To make Wikipedia your default search engine in Mozilla, Beonex Communicator, and Netscape 6/7:

With Wikipedia selected as your default engine, searches can be conducted via the search sidebar tab, search box, or the web address bar.

Works with: Mozilla Suite, Mozilla Firefox, Netscape 6/7, Beonex Communicator, Camino.

Wikipedia can also be searched via a custom keyword.

To search, go to the web address bar (Ctrl-L), enter "w SEARCH_QUERY" (without the quotes), and press Enter.

Many versions of Firefox include this wikipedia quicksearch by default, but use "wp SEARCH_QUERY

Note: This can also be done with Opera and Internet Explorer, see below.

Javascript can bring additional functionality to your bookmark. The following javascript can be pasted in as the 'Location' of a new bookmark created manually, for example in the 'Manage Bookmarks' window of Firefox. If you highlight a word in a webpage then hit the new bookmark, javascript grabs the word you have selected and uses that to perform the search. If no word is highlighted, you will be prompted to enter one.

javascript:x=escape(getSelection());if(!x)%7Bvoid(x=prompt('Enter%20Word:',''))%7D;if(x)window.location='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search='+x

The whole thing should be pasted in as a single line without spaces for it to work.

To enable a quick search from the Windows and Internet Explorer Address bars, do the following

This will allow you to for example type "w french revolution" (without the quotes) into the Windows and Internet Explorer Address bars to immediately search Wikipedia for the search term you've specified.

Note: There are other URLs you can specify instead of the Default (@) key given above. For instance, the line

will search the German Wikipedia and

will use Google to search all language Wikipedias.

From version 9, Opera can automatically generate a custom search engine from any search box. To add a Wikipedia QuickSearch:

All Opera versions since v6 use a customizable text file called search.ini. This file should only be edited while Opera is not running.The following example replaces one of the existing pre-defined search engines. It is up to the user to avoid conflicts of shortcut key (key=). By default 'w' is taken by the download.com search, so either this or the Wikipedia one should be changed. Furthermore the 'Search Engine ##' should be replaced with a free number: '12' is free by default. The Search.ini editor (see link below, in the "More information" section) makes editing trivial.

K-Meleon has a search button that can be used to search Google. You can change it to search Wikipedia instead, by doing this:

user_pref("kmeleon.general.searchEngine", "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=");

Open up K-Meleon and press the search button to search Wikipedia. To go back to Google or to use another search service, edit prefs.js and delete the added line

Make sure K-Meleon is closed before editing prefs.js.

After downloading the Wikipedia:TomeRaider database one can search the Wikipedia version offline. One can also search for parts of words.

To search the text that appears only in the page history, you must export the text to XML format first.

If there is no appropriate page on Wikipedia, consider creating a page, since you can edit Wikipedia right now. Or consider adding what you were looking for to the Requested articles page. Or if you have a question, then see Where to ask questions, which is a list of departments where our volunteers answer questions, any question you can possibly imagine.

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