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I randomly late at night wanted to look up topics related to school principals/administrators. So I just typed in “principal” and nothing came up for some reason. I’m confused. (I very, very rarely use wikiHow search so I don’t know a lot about it.) If I go to public logs or any text field where I enter an article title and type in “principal” I get articles with the word “principal” in it.

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Maybe there’s no articles about or named principals…?

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I’ve noticed this too, with topics like writing a book or printing on a t-shirt (which there are articles on). I’ve also noticed that in NAB (this may or may not be related), no articles are showing up as potential duplicates for any article.

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Try using Special:Search instead of the main search bar. It’s more comprehensive and looks for keywords site-wide. It’ll also include tagged and de-indexed articles.

https://www.wikihow.com/Special:Search

https://www.wikihow.com/index.php?search=Principal

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ok so I’m trying to search on wikihow but like it keeps saying
It looks like your search - " manga" - did not match any content so here’s what to try next:

  • Make sure all words are spelled correctly.
  • Try different keywords.
  • Try more general keywords.

And like then I tried search up clean up article to test and nothing came up execpt for that stupid thing. How do I fix it? And Another thing how do you embabed a link in a wikihow article?

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Yes, there apparently has no articles about wikiHow itself.
It looks like your search - " wikiHow" - did not match any content so here’s what to try next:

  • Make sure all words are spelled correctly.
  • Try different keywords.
  • Try more general keywords.
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That’s probably a bug. I really wish typing into the search bar would be Special:Search as that seemed to work for me.

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Yeah, we’re having some issues with the search feature this week. The team is working on getting it sorted out asap!

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This has been fixed!:slight_smile:

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