Given you have WIkidataPageBanner installed (http://mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikidataPageBanner) and are viewing a page with a banner e.g. http://en.wikivoyage.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/WikidataPageBanner_example_2
Currently banners are not shown in the print view when the reader clicks the browser print (Ctrl + P) function in a modern browser.
The heading should be visible in the printable version
The banner image should not (although that may change in future).
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| Don't show WikidataPageBanner when printing | mediawiki/extensions/WikidataPageBanner | master | +30 -1 |
I'm fine with the banners not printing, as they're largely decorative and would be a waste of paper, we do need to at least print the article title and some sort of table of contents.
Oh I hadn't thought about the heading but yes we should definitely show that.
What is the reasoning behind printing the table of contents (curious)?
It just seems like something useful, following the precedent of printed books. But perhaps our articles are better analogized as chapters rather than as entire books, obviating the need for TOCs unless printing several articles.
I think that it would be useful for banners to print because:
I can see that we migh have wanted banners not to print when they were first introduced, as most pages would have the default grey banner, which would not be a good use of ink. Now a third of articles have custom banners, and I think most printouts will be of articles with custom banners.
If there are difficulties printing as a banner sized to fit the page, it could be printed at a fixed size (e.g 525 x 75 or 350 x 50)
I think at very least we have to make the headings show up in the noprint version and I'd say doing this is a high priority.
@Jdlrobson: For a potential GCI contributor, could you clarify which codebase this task is about and how to reproduce the problem? Is this MediaWiki core's "Printable version" functionality in the side bar? Is this code in the mediawiki/extensions/WikidataPageBanner Git repository only? Or both?
Change 260406 had a related patch set uploaded (by Scimonster):
Don't show WikidataPageBanner when printing