Last modified: 2009-05-01 00:16:25 UTC
Click on "Printable Version". Looks okay, but will not print. Tried different printers, tried IE6 and Firefox. Tried different computers on my end. Same result. Even the "print preview" in FF or IE shows a blank page. Tried some other pages, at random, and they will print.
Printed successfully first time for me, Vista/FF3. No recent changes to pages or templates that could have affected it. No recent changes to JS or skins. No recent relevant code updates AFAIK.
This page will not print with commonly used software. I have FF2 (latest ver), IE6, Win XP Pro SP2. That should be good enough. Have now tried on 3 different computers. All with same result, ie, blank page. I just tried a couple of other articles randomly. They won't print either. Guess your 'templates' have changed for the worse somehow. Page on e (math constant) won't print. Page on Paul Bunyan won't print. Page on John Henry (mythical character) won't print But.. Page on "Argentina" will print.
As noted, there are no recent changes to either the page [[e (mathematical constant)]], the templates it transcludes, the CSS and JS files it is rendered with (either local or MediaWiki defaults) or the site interface that surrounds it, that should have affected printing. The page you note as printing correctly contains many of the same templates as those you note as not printing, and vice versa. This doesn't seem to be a widely-reported problem, although the browser/OS combination you have is quite common. Consequently I think it's very likely that this is a browser issue (that is, a problem with your own browser and the pages it's got cached) rather than a problem with MediaWiki. It *is* possible that you have an old, cached, copy of a stylesheet or page that is screwing up the print media. Try purging your cache (Ctrl+F5 on Firefox) and printing some pages again.
I cannot confirm this bug on: OSX - Firefox, Safari Windows Vista - Firefox, Chrome, IE7/8 Ubuntu - Firefox Closing as WORKSFORME.
