Wikipedia:About essay searching

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This page in a nutshell: Essays can be searched in several ways. This essay lists over 800 other essays, to allow searching the titles and added keywords. New essays auto-index in group "W".
Wikipedia essays
About essays
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There are over 1000 Wikipedia essays (Feb 2010), with over a dozen categories to separate them for searching. The titles are listed below, to allow searching for particular words/syllables in titles. After many titles, some keywords have been added in parentheses "( )" such as "(verifiability)" to help find that topic.

So, to search essays, use:

  • See essays in a nutshell for a summary of the gist of each essay, as sorted by topic; or
  • press Ctrl+F or ⌘+F to search topics on this page.
  • text-search of the titles (below) for a match; or
  • text-search of keywords (added below) for a match; or
  • perhaps use wiki-search Special:Search, including words "Wikipedia essays" (with your other search-words) to hunt a topic inside an essay (but it matches many non-essays).
  • see essays in Category:Wikipedia essays (currently 1,449 pages).
  • look for new essays auto-indexed under "Wikipedia:...".

By default, new essays indexed into the "W" group, as the default category placement by "{{essay}}" (during 2008). Also, many essays are merely half-page initial thoughts.

The age-old concept of "associative retrieval"[clarification needed] has led to search engines that can scan page contents for multi-word matches. Some text editors, decades ago, could search for multiple words within a bracket of lines, but today, most people just use a search engine to find multiple words on a local webpage (that has been submitted to a world search-engine for indexing). Perhaps, some decade, many computers will search for a multi-word bracket on any selected pages. Fortunately, the wiki-search option (in the Wikipedia leftside menu), allows multiword search of pages, but it takes a lot of experience to pinpoint a search.

List of Wikipedia essays [edit]

The following list came from Category:Wikipedia_essays (10-Dec-2008), sorted into alpha order. Some entries might be bogus, incorrectly linked to the category. Other essays might still be stubs that have not been moved back to the particular user-space for improvement. (Essays here are intended to be readable & valuable for general Wikipedians.)

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  1. Wikipedia:Vandalism types
  2. Wikipedia:Vandalism won by 2009
  3. Wikipedia:Vandals versus Trolls
  4. Wikipedia:Vanispamcruftisement
  5. Wikipedia:Veganism parable

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Duplicates [edit]

X [edit]

  • (there were no essays with "X...")

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See also [edit]

 
Essays about Wikipedia
 
Essays on building Wikipedia
Philosophy
Construction
Deletion
 
Essays on Wikipedia civility
The basics
Philosophy
Dos
Don'ts
Wiki relations
 
Essays on Notability
Notability
 
Humorous essays
Humorous material
Inactive historical references
 
About essays
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