Last modified: 2013-11-10 21:13:20 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...
Related URL: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/62844 (Gerrit Change Ib8864127621c5aaca1df22083a774f352984c7d3)
Change 62844 merged by jenkins-bot: Display "Printable version" links in toolbox on special pages https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/62844
(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.
(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. :)
Bah, bug 56786.
