Forum:Searching for tags

Hello all. I am wondering if there is a way to search for tags. I know that there is the Tag Report Special Page, but it doesn't display the one for which I'm searching. It is the and tags. The reason that I'm trying to do this is because we have a few templates that add these tags and takes the guess work out of footnotes. Just wondering. Thanks! 11:15, January 31, 2012 (UTC)


 * You are following a pre thought through plan, which is not very clear to me. Can you please expand a little on what you like to achieve?


 * You want to search through the footnotes, or you want to add footnotes on many pages, or is it that you want to replace footnotes or find the templates adding the footnotes?

Sorry if I wasn't clear. When my wiki first started, we used the tags to surround our footnotes and the tag to display them at the bottom of the article. Since then, we had a user create some templates that make footnoting a lot easier. What I'm asking is for some way to search the code for the old tags so that I can update those articles with the templates. Let me know if you need anymore info! 20:11, January 31, 2012 (UTC)


 * Most commonly people are using bots to do such work. However you also can use AutoWikiBrowser if you aren't very familiair with coding or if it's only a small task. I am interested to know the template you used. Can you provide a link?

I'll take a look at those options. Thanks for the suggestions.

Here are the links. This one is our general one. It surrounds the info after a pipe in tags. Usage is This one is the one we use for our books. It has two piped parameters, the first for the book and the second for the chapter. Usage is which would give a link to the first book and a link to the second chapter of that book. This one is the last one. Put at the bottom of the page, it displays all of the footnotes and adds the "Notes" level-2 header. The great thing about these is that you don't have to worry about identical references taking up individual lines. Take a look at this link to see how they all get on the same line. Let me know if you have any other questions. 11:33, February 1, 2012 (UTC)

I've looked at both of the options suggested by WikiPim, but neither of them is a viable option I can explore. Does anyone else have any suggestions. 16:33, February 3, 2012 (UTC)


 * Although I can't think of a way to do this without bots, you could make it easier to find them. For example, you could add something like this to your personal CSS (so you don't ruin anyone else's experience):


 * not(.newref) .reference {font-size: 500px; color: green;}
 * ...with the new templates surrounding the reference with . That way, it'll be much easier to find them scrolling down the page, so all you have to do is visit all the pages and change the huge green references. 17:09, February 3, 2012 (UTC)