Editing Help:Searching (section)

=== Searching for a specific person's contributions ===
Due to the way the wikimedia database is indexed, there's no direct way to search for something like {{kbd|insource:foo author:person}}.   But, you can come close in some situations.  If you're looking for something on a talk (or, sometimes, project) page, people tend to leave a signature after each edit, and such pages are usually set up so old edits roll off onto archive pages.  In this case, the [[:mw:Help:CirrusSearch#Words,_phrases,_and_modifiers|proximity search]] operator can find instances of your search term near the user's name.  Something like {{kbd|foo person ~50}} might find what you are looking for.