Forum:Can "intitle" searches be activated on my wiki?

Can "intitle:" searches be activated on my wiki?

For example; in Wikipedia here is an intitle search of the template namespace:

searching for "UK" in the text of templates with "Wales" in the title.

Please go to the bottom of the search results page to see that the template namespace has a checkmark in the box.

I intend to put some basic yearly city lists (one city per line or paragraph) on separate pages. I need the intitle function activated in order to be able to search all pages with "city list" in the title.

This way people can search for a particular city, and see right away which year pages the city is on, and thus which years that city signed up for that event.

I don't necessarily need the intitle search to only search one particular namespace, but it needs to only search on one wikia wiki.

I tried to figure out a way to do this with Google search, but with no luck.

Google's "allintitle:" search combined with its "site:" search pulls up pages on a site that have the search words in the title. It does not also allow the text on those pages to be searched at the same time.

For example; here are some Google allintitle searches below of the wiki I mainly work on. They search for the title words listed here:
 * city list
 * graphics
 * GMM

Note that when one tries to add search terms to try to search the text, then there are no search results.

With hundreds of cities per year lately for this particular event it would take far too long to make a 12-year participation table with around 600 cities down the left side of the table, and the years listed across the top.

So instead I can put the Wikia intitle search links in the existing templates on the around 600 existing city pages. This is better than just referring them to a table someday (probably never) on a separate page. --Timeshifter 03:00, 22 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Here are some examples of site searches elsewhere similar to what I am trying to do:
 * Search for Toronto
 * Search for Kiev or Kyiv
 * Search for Missoula


 * Note that the years in the search results indicate which years the city signed up for the event.


 * That site only has city lists back to 2005 though. I intend to put all basic (one city per line or paragraph) city lists since 1999 on this wiki. By year. But I will have to separate the multi-year city lists from the single-year city lists by using specific words in the titles. Thus the need for a title search. --Timeshifter 08:43, 22 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Why not use "intitle" instead of "allintitle"?--AB 09:46, 22 June 2009 (UTC)


 * I thought I had tried that, and with quotes around the phrase "city list". I don't remember it working before. But now I see that it works!


 * For example; this Google intitle search for "city list" (with and without quotes):
 * city list - it does not pull up those 2 words in the title.


 * "city list" - this pulls up those 2 words in the title.


 * And I can add search terms (unlike with allintitle):
 * Search for "city list" in title, and "curly" in the text


 * I would still like intitle searching activated so I can search specific namespaces. Google may be stopped by "nofollow" tags in some of the namespaces.


 * But if I create the single-year city lists in article space I shouldn't have a problem. Thanks.


 * Even better, maybe if I could figure out one word or acronym to put in the page title to indicate a single-year city list. That may be the least complicated search, and the easiest to explain. --Timeshifter 10:29, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
 * You could have also used "intitle" twice, for "city" as well as for "list". It appears that no namespace has the "nofollow" tag set.--AB 12:22, 22 June 2009 (UTC)