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Nutshell.png 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".

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:

  • text-search of the titles (below) for a match; or
  • text-search of keywords (added below) for a match; or
  • perhaps use wiki-search web, 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 1,292 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.

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The age-old concept of "associative retrieval"[device database] 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

The following list came from website parsing (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.)

0–9

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

  • iOS (quoting sources)

R

S

T

U

V

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

W

Duplicates

X

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

Y

Z

See also

  • iOS, hundreds more essays in the User namespace
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