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You can use the search bar to the right to search AgeofWiki for articles that interest you. To learn more, see Help.

How To explore Age of Wiki

• Search for articles. Enter your search in the box in the sidebar.
• Follow the links from article to article.
• Go to a Click on Random Page in the sidebar
• Browse the various Games sections.
• View what changes have been made to the Age of Wiki articles recently. Click on Recent Changes in the sidebar.
• Use your watchlist to track changes made to a particular page (only when logged in). Click My watchlist on the top of the page.
• Find the pages that have a link to a given page: click What links here on the latter page. This works also for a page that does not exist (there may be links to it, which makes it extra useful to create it). The What links here button is also on the edit page on which one arrives when following a broken link.
• Use the special pages. Click on Special pages in the sidebar.

The location of the search box and other links described on this page only apply to the default skin.

The Go Button

The Go button appears on all MediaWiki pages in the standard skin, next to the search button. The function of the go button is to display an article directly, instead of first having to select it from the search result page. In other words, it allows a user to quickly navigate from page to page without following links.

To view a page, just enter its name and click "Go".

If the user uses the Go button wisely, it will allow the user to quickly jump to his/her most frequently used pages. It is also a good idea to use it for unambiguous searches -- if a direct match fails, it will always fall back to the normal search anyway, and if it succeeds, the user is immediately taken where the user wants to go. In general, the go button generates little server load, and therefore usually remains functional even if the fulltext search is deactivated for performance reasons.