Help:Browsing

The official MediaWiki instance of the ArchWiki can be accessed online at https://wiki.archlinux.org with any web browser.

Note that some translations are hosted externally under different domain names, see Help:I18n#Languages.

Searching

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Reason: Describe the internal search engine, including searching for exact phrases. (Discuss in Help talk:Browsing)

MediaWiki supports full text search. The limitations of this feature is that it indexes only words longer than 3 characters. If you want to search for shorter words (1 to 3 characters) then a known workaround is to use Google's sitesearch feature. Enter your search items in the form and it will automatically search within ArchWiki.

Of course, you can do the same manually by appending site:wiki.archlinux.org to Google searches:

your search items site:wiki.archlinux.org

This works fine, but it is not live. Google is indexing the ArchWiki every 1 to 3 days.

DuckDuckGo Bangs

You can also use DuckDuckGo's bangs feature to directly search the Arch Wiki. After adding DuckDuckGo as the default search engine of your web browser, you can directly type something like the following in the omnibox / URL bar:

!archwiki <your_search_term>

or, shorter

!aw <your_search_term>

ArchWiki browsing

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Reason: Use Template:App, split in offline packages & online viewers. (Discuss in Help talk:Browsing)

They offer you some different methods to visit ArchWiki.

arch-wiki-docs: Pages from Arch Wiki optimized for offline browsing. Package: arch-wiki-docs.

arch-wiki-lite: Arch-wiki-lite is designed to offer the smoothest possible experience for the poor person stuck without internet access or any way of starting a graphical web browser. Package: arch-wiki-lite.

arch-wiki-man: The Arch Wiki easily accessible and searchable as man pages. Works offline. Package: arch-wiki-man^AUR.

ArchWiki Viewer for Android: A simple viewer for the ArchLinux Wiki online. Page content is formatted for optimal mobile viewing.

Wikicurses: A simple curses interface for MediaWiki sites such as ArchWiki or Wikipedia. Packages: wikicurses, wikicurses-git^AUR.