Help:Search namespace restrictions

By default results are selected from all namespaces matching the query condition. It is however also possible to only return pages located in a particular namespace. This is done by specifying the label of the namespace together with a wildcard, e.g. write  to return every page in the "Help" namespace. Since the main namespace has no prefix, just write  to select only pages in it, i.e. without specifying a label. To return pages in the "Category" namespace, a colon  needs to be added in front of the namespace label, e.g..

Disjunctions also work using the  operator. For example, to return pages in either the main or "User" namespace, write.