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Usage

A box for searching the subpages, basically excluding the tagged page itself from the scope. If there are subpages besides talk archives you might want to change the search button label by using the searchbuttonlabel parameter (see below). You can see what this will search by putting the template on a page and doing a blank search. A list of all the subpages will come up.

Basic usage: {{search archives}}. For example, if you put it at Wikipedia talk:Talk pages, it will search the subpages of Wikipedia talk:Talk pages, excluding that page.

If you want to search different page's subpages, specify it as the parameter root like this:
{{search archives|prefix=Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation}}.

Use the parameter prefix instead of root to include the page itself to the search scope. (But if you pass prefix=HTML, it will search not only HTML, but also all pages beginning with "HTML", such as HTML element etc.)

Other parameters:

searchbuttonlabel: The button label.
search-width: The search box width. Defaults to 30.

Example: {{search archives|searchbuttonlabel=Search Wikipedia|search-width=80}}
produces:

Various outer boxes can be used. This way one can combine the search bar with an archive list:

{{Archive list}} - linked archive numbers.
{{Archive list long}} - column of linked archive names.
{{Archive list long inline}} - inline archive names.

Template:Tmbox:

List of archives: no archives yet (create). ~ See Help: Archiving.

Template:Ombox:

List of archives: no archives yet (create). ~ See Help: Archiving.

As previously mentioned the search button text can be modified too. See above examples.

Templates to search Wikipedia

Fulltext search links

{{search link}} – Make a link for Wikipedia's search page. Example: {{search link|tosa diary|pages with the phrase "tosa diary"}} creates a link to find pages with the phrase "tosa diary".
{{shortSearch}} · {{wpsearch}} – Create links also to Google

Search boxes

{{search box}} – Simple search box with choice of button below or to the right
{{search prefixes}} – Multiple pages' subpages are searched at once
{{search archives}} and {{archive banner}} – For searching archives. The latter, {{archive banner}} is of banner-style, like many other archive templates.

Search boxes are made by <inputbox> tags. See mw:Extension:InputBox.

Page title searches

{{in title}} – Search for pages whose name contains given words
{{look from}} – Search for pages whose name begins with a given word

For searches with exact matches, exact in upper and lower cases, or in punctuation marks, see Help:Searching#grep.

Other Wikipedia editor helper

{{linksearch}} – Search for external links matching for a URL
{{search deletion discussions}} – Search box for all kinds of deletion discussions
{{dabsearch}} – Find page titles containing (any word), including the parentheses. Useful for Wikipedia:disambiguation study.
{{help desk searches}} – Navbox with list of links to google pages, specialized to search for example user pages, village pump, etc. Useful for the Wikipedia:Help desk task.
{{spamsearch}} – Searches user pages for common spams, e.g. "we service", "leading manufacturer" etc.