I'm trying to search for a keyword within a specific category on Wikimedia Commons. For example, like to search for "red flowers" within "Category:Flowers" so that I can categorize the images accordingly.
If this can't be done on Wikimedia Commons, is it possible to do this on other MediaWiki websites?
This is possible on Wikimedia Commons.
Can I specify categories when searching?
[...] To do this, just add +incategory:"CategoryName" to the search string. [...]
For example, if you wanted to look for the purple things in the "Flowers" category, you'd use this:
purple +incategory:"Flowers"
Be warned that if you're trying this on a default or fresh install of a MediaWiki site, it may not work since it's a Lucene search specific function that needs setting up.
incategory keyword produces only a subset of the articles in a category. It works only for articles that directly include a category tag ([[Category:Whatever]]). It fails for any article that transcludes the category tag. This unfortunate behavior occurs because Lucene is not designed to notice transcluded category tags.
As far as I know, MediaWiki's standard installation does its search on the page syntax. So you may simply combine your key word with the category definition in parantheses:
keyword "[[Category:keycategory]]"
purple +incategory:"Flowers" didn't work though, indicating that the wiki I'm searching probably doesn't have lucene set up.
If neither of those works for you, and the category name is relatively unique on the site, you can try Google: site:wiki.example.com "name of category" <keywords>.
For example, to find Beck lyrics, you can do site:lyrics.wikia.com "songs by beck" <keywords>.
