Finding the Right Term

There are several different ways in which you can browse terminology entries in TermWiki. If you're new to TermWiki, we suggest first taking a manual tour of the existing termbase to familiarize yourself with the terms that have already been uploaded to the system.

To browse a comprehensive list of terms, click on the Browse Terms link in the termwiki toolbox located on the left-hand side of your screen. This page provides a list of English terms in alphabetical order. Feel free to click on any term in the list to view its terminological entry.

To find a list of terms in any target language, you need to first click on the Language Home link in the termwiki toolbox. From there, click on any target language in the list to reveal a list of terms in that particular language.

Performing Searches

For users that are already familiar with their termbase, you can also search for a term directly instead of sifting through an exhaustive list of terms. TermWiki is equipped with an enhanced, Google-like search function that allows users to search directly for terms as well as terminological content, and can even proffer relevant results in spite of incomplete search strings.

The Search box is located above the termwiki toolbox on the left-hand side of every TermWiki page. All search-related functions can be handled with this one easy-to-use box.

You only need to type in the term that you're looking for in the Search box and then press Enter.
You will notice that there are two buttons beneath the search box: Go and Search:

• Go takes you directly to the term entry.
• Search returns a list of terms and related “fuzzy” results.

Language-Specific Searches

For the purposes of this tutorial, let's perform a search for a term that has already been added to TermWiki's database.

Go ahead and type "access" in the search box, and then click Go. You will notice that this search string only presented one result: the TermWiki home page, which happens to include the word access in its content.

The reason that this search string did not produce relevant, term-related results is because all terminology searches performed in TermWiki are language-specific. That is, in order to save you the hassle of sifting through the terminological entry for access in every single language as a result of a non-restricted search, we have restricted searches to be performed on a per-language basis.

To this end, TermWiki employs two-letter language codes that enable users to perform searches in a specific language. For a list of all language codes used in this version of TermWiki, check out the Language Codes page in TermWiki's Help menu.

In keeping with the example above, now perform a search for "EN:access" (EN being the language code for English, the source language in this version of TermWiki), with no spaces between the language code, colon, nor term.

As you can see, this time your search has produced relevant, terminology-related results.