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Bug 48234 - Display "Printable version" links on sidebar on Special Pages
Display "Printable version" links on sidebar on Special Pages
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Special pages (Other open bugs)
1.22.0
All All
: Lowest enhancement (vote)
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Assigned To: Alex Monk
https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spec...
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Depends on:
Blocks:
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Reported: 2013-05-08 01:44 UTC by Sam Reed (reedy)
Modified: 2013-11-10 21:13 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---


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Description Sam Reed (reedy) 2013-05-08 01:44:20 UTC
https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Version?printable=yes

It works, it's just not displayed. I can use there being some use to printing certain special pages (lists of users etc), so we might aswell show the option.

The sidebar has generally less items on special pages anyway...
Comment 1 Gerrit Notification Bot 2013-05-08 18:18:08 UTC
Related URL: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/62844 (Gerrit Change Ib8864127621c5aaca1df22083a774f352984c7d3)
Comment 2 Gerrit Notification Bot 2013-06-30 17:14:15 UTC
Change 62844 merged by jenkins-bot:
Display "Printable version" links in toolbox on special pages

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/62844
Comment 3 Gadget850 2013-07-14 20:28:41 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Version?printable=yes
> 
> It works, it's just not displayed. I can use there being some use to printing
> certain special pages (lists of users etc), so we might aswell show the
> option.
> 
> The sidebar has generally less items on special pages anyway...

Adding it is fine, but 'printable version' is not very useful. It is really only needed by ancient browsers such as IE3 or FF5 that don't support print rules. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Printable.
Comment 4 Bartosz Dziewoński 2013-07-14 20:37:27 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> Adding it is fine, but 'printable version' is not very useful. It is really
> only needed by ancient browsers such as IE3 or FF5 that don't support print
> rules. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Printable.

True. But random non-technical people got used to "Printable version" links, so MediaWiki has one, even if it's essentially a no-op. :)
Comment 5 MZMcBride 2013-11-10 21:13:20 UTC
Bah, bug 56786.

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