finding things in the wiki?
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fanloreI have a question about searches in the wiki via the the "what links here" function.
As I mentioned in my last post, right now I'm putting fanzines that are being added or have been added in lists so that people using the wiki might have a chance to find them. The problem is that finding the fanzines that have pages is not always easy for me. The search engine is less than helpful, and I was trying to find a way around the lack of the fandom category. So I figured out (fanlore is really the first wiki I'm using a lot) that clicking on the "what links here" link in not too large fandoms works as a decent substitute as most pages that link to a fandom are related to it, because the zines usually link to all fandoms they belong to. However in large fandoms there are naturally a lot of pages that aren't fanzines, so what would be really awesome would be if you could somehow combine queries.
What I mean is that the wiki can tell me what pages link to say "The Sentinel" and it can tell me what pages are in the "Category:Zine", so is there some way I can get the wiki to tell me the overlap, i.e. what pages both link to "The Sentinel" AND belong to "Category:Zines"? I mean, surely the wiki must be able to tell me that somehow?
As I mentioned in my last post, right now I'm putting fanzines that are being added or have been added in lists so that people using the wiki might have a chance to find them. The problem is that finding the fanzines that have pages is not always easy for me. The search engine is less than helpful, and I was trying to find a way around the lack of the fandom category. So I figured out (fanlore is really the first wiki I'm using a lot) that clicking on the "what links here" link in not too large fandoms works as a decent substitute as most pages that link to a fandom are related to it, because the zines usually link to all fandoms they belong to. However in large fandoms there are naturally a lot of pages that aren't fanzines, so what would be really awesome would be if you could somehow combine queries.
What I mean is that the wiki can tell me what pages link to say "The Sentinel" and it can tell me what pages are in the "Category:Zine", so is there some way I can get the wiki to tell me the overlap, i.e. what pages both link to "The Sentinel" AND belong to "Category:Zines"? I mean, surely the wiki must be able to tell me that somehow?