Many users and readers might be unaware of the great improvements to
the standard Commons search.

As an example, if you type "Dentistry
incategory:Files_from_Wellcome_Images" in the search bar, this returns
a list of 267 thumbnail images of where "Dentistry" appears in the
file name or as text on the image page.[1] If we use
insource:/dentist/ this includes dentist, dentistry, dentiste, etc.
which then reports back 359 possible images.[2]

There are a number of other possible search options beyond searching
within a category, including searching by similar words or fuzzy
matches or limiting to words in the title.[3] It is definitely worth
spending a couple of minutes reading up on the special CirrusSearch
options and having a good play around with it, if you have not tried
it before.

Links
1. 
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=Dentistry+incategory%3AFiles_from_Wellcome_Images&title=Special%3ASearch
2. 
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=default&search=insource%3A%2Fdentist%2F+incategory%3AFiles_from_Wellcome_Images&fulltext=Search
3. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch

On 23 January 2015 at 12:17, Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hm.
> <http://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/glamorous.php?doit=1&category=Files_from_Wellcome_Images&use_globalusage=1&show_details=0&show_details_limited=0#details>
>
> I often think we need a reverse FIST, i.e. a tool to produce suggestions of
> usage for files in a category. Didn't we have something like that at some
> point? https://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/fist.php
>
> Nemo
>
>
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