Add ability to use wildcarded tags in search

Question

It's possible to filter using a wildcard in a tag, for example stargate*, and to use this in the favourite and ignored tags.

However, you can't do this in search. Searching for [stargate*] gives the results for [stargate].

If this could be used in search (and if it was also listed in the search tips), perhaps more people would know that it can be done.

Answer 1

This is supposedly implemented but looks broken.

You can enter the URL manually:

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/stargate*

but there doesn't seem to be a way to reach this URL from the search box, and I can't seem to combine with other search criteria (say, posts tagged stargate* and not tagged stargate).

Answer 2

This appears to have been fixed at some point since being posted.

I just put [stargate*] into the search box, and after submitting it the search terms were expanded to:

[stargate] or [stargate-sg1] or [stargate-atlantis] or [stargate-universe] or [stargate-movie]

Likewise, [star-trek*] becomes:

[star-trek] or [star-trek-tng] or [star-trek-voyager] or [star-trek-ds9] or [star-trek-tos] or [star-trek-enterprise] or [star-trek-into-darkness] or [star-trek-2009] or [star-trek-data] or [star-trek-q] or [star-trek-tas] or [star-trek-the-doctor] or [star-trek-ph2] or [star-trek-judgment-rites] or [star-trek-iii] or [star-trek-countdown]

Answer 3

This seems to work, see for example this link.