Even though we ARE Nikon lovers,we are NOT affiliated with Nikon Corp. in any way.



Sign up Login
Home Forums Articles Galleries Members Galleries Master Your Vision Galleries 5Contest Categories 5Winners Galleries 5ANPAT Galleries 5 The Winners Editor's Choice Portfolios Recent Photos Search Contest Info Help News Newsletter Join us Renew Membership About us Retrieve password Contact us Contests Vouchers Wiki Apps THE NIKONIAN™ For the press Fundraising Search Help!
More5

NikoScope Help

From Nikonians Wiki - FAQs, Photo Glossary, Good Photo Locations, Help

Jump to: navigation, search

NikoScope is our powerful search engine. It indexes (searches) all of our forums, articles, blogs, galleries, The Nikonian eZine, membership and even other high quality photography sites. You can only search membership if you are a Nikonians member and are logged in.

Two Major Modes

'less options' (default, Single Search) Mode: You can do a criterion search on: Forum messages, Members, Galleries, Articles, Resources, eZine issues, Photo sites (other than nikonians.org, selected), and Everywhere (within the mentioned list)

nikoscope-1-search-where.gif

You can currently make the above searches in each of three languages; English, German and French, or on all three.

nikoscope-2-search-language.gif


"more options" (Advanced Search) Mode: By clicking on the "more options" button, you can make searches by forum, by date range posted, by member (username), sorted by several criteria. This is a good tool to track your own posts.

nikoscope-3-advanced-search-forums.gif

Definitions

A search criterion is broken up into terms and operators. There are two types of terms: Single Terms and Phrases. A Single Term is a single word such as "adirondak" or "d4". A Phrase is a group of words surrounded by double quotes such as "adirondak landscape". Multiple terms can be combined together with boolean operators to form a more complex query (see below).

nikoscope-4-search-and.gif

When looking for specific topics (for example: "tripod maintenance"), if you don't know the username of the member who posted it, you can leave that blank and still use it for searching in any (all) forums indexed, or an specific one and add a selection of the time frame you want to use, and listed by date in the sequence order of your choice.

If you are looking for posts by a member (yourself, for example) just enter the username in the 'posted by' window, choosing a time frame (anytime, last three days, past week, past month, past three months, past year, past 5 years)

Examples

To perform a single character wildcard search use the "?" symbol. To perform a multiple character wildcard search use the "*" symbol. The single character wildcard search looks for terms that match that with the single character replaced. For example, to search for "test" or "text" you can use the query: te?t

Multiple character wildcard searches look for 0 or more characters. For example, to search for test, tests or tester, you can use the search: test*

You can also use the wildcard searches in the middle of a term. Note: You cannot use a * or ? symbol as the first character of a search.

To search for a term similar in spelling to "roam" use the fuzzy search: roam~ This search will find terms like foam and roams.

The OR operator is the default conjunction operator. This means that if there is no boolean operator between two terms, the OR operator is used. The OR operator links two terms and finds a matching document if either of the terms exist in a document. This is equivalent to a union using sets. The symbol || can be used in place of OR. To search for documents that contain either "beautiful day" or just "beautiful" use the search criteria: "beautiful day" OR beautiful

The AND operator matches documents where both terms exist anywhere in the text of a single document. The symbol && can be used in place of the word AND. To search for documents that contain "beautiful day" and "beautiful summer" use the search criteria: "beautiful day" AND "beautiful summer"

The "+" or required operator requires that the term after the "+" symbol exist somewhere in a the field of a single document.

To search for documents that must contain "nikonians" and may contain "member" use the search criteria: +nikonians nikon The "-" or prohibit operator excludes documents that contain the term after the "-" symbol. To search for documents that contain "beautiful day" but not "beautiful summer" use the search criteria: "beautiful day" -"beautiful summer"

The NOT operator excludes documents that contain the term after NOT. The symbol ! can be used in place of the word NOT.

To search for documents that contain "beautiful day" but not "beautiful summer" use the search criteria: "beautiful day" NOT "beautiful summer" Note: The NOT operator cannot be used with just one term. For example, the following search will return no results: NOT "beautiful summer"

The search engine supports using parentheses to group clauses to form sub search criteria. This can be very useful if you want to control the boolean logic for a separate phrase or term.

To search for either "beautiful" or "boring" and "summer" use the search criteria: (beautiful OR boring) AND summer

The search engine supports escaping special characters that are part of the search criteria. The current list of special characters contains: + - && || ! ( ) { } [ ] ^ " ~ * ? : \

To escape any of these characters use the backslash \ before the character. For example to search for (1+1):2 use the search criteria: \(1\+1\)\:2

  • This page was last modified on 30 January 2017, at 13:30.
  • This page has been accessed 29,996 times.

G
https://wiki.nikonians.org/NikoScope_Help
wiki.nikonians.org
crawl=CC-MAIN-2018-51
64854
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:HSLT2PM2ZNDZC5QMAAPAY74Z3CUKLBWG
<urn:uuid:1d06207f-6920-42fb-ae17-0d365d2659e7>
2018-12-12T03:21:24Z
104.25.245.98
text/html
sha1:RHYDWM6GAYHCU2G2BTRHFFUCGIMHW26P
<urn:uuid:002caf08-a6e7-42fc-9a63-fd0316fdd08b>
https://wiki.nikonians.org/NikoScope_Help
response
<urn:uuid:ec58d9a2-57b0-4ebc-bc13-2c68922a65ee>
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-51
publisher: Common Crawl
description: Wide crawl of the web for December 2018
operator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)
hostname: ip-10-145-10-101.ec2.internal
software: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)
robots: checked via crawler-commons 0.11-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)
format: WARC File Format 1.1
conformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/