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This page in a nutshell: To print a Wikipedia page, select File → Print from your web browser, or click on the browser print icon. In general, printing a Wikipedia article is as simple as selecting Printable version from the tools menu on the sidebar or at the top-right.
You can use (free) images from Wikipedia on your own site, or anywhere you like. You can use images that are freely-licensed images, provided you comply with the individual image' s license terms. While all article text is licensed under the GFDL, free images have several free content licenses to choose from.
This is intended for the rare cases when the Wikipedia software that reduces images to thumbnails does a poor job, and you want to provide your own thumbnail. In the following example, the double-rectangle links to File:Anime stub 2.svg but the image displayed is File:Anime stub.png :
The mainspace of Wikipedia is the place where the encyclopedia articles are. In contrast, the user namespace is where your user page and sandbox live, and they don’t appear in normal Wikipedia searches. After you create the page in the article namespace, you can add categories and link to the page from other pages.
It also lets you replace non-free and placeholder images. Review the lists of places that have free or public domain images, to see if one seems like a good candidate for what you're looking for. See the pages Wikipedia:Free image resources (shortcut: WP:FIR) and Wikipedia:Public domain image resources (shortcut: WP:PDIR).
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Images; Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility § Images; Wikipedia:Image placeholders – former policy about placeholder images, especially for biographical pages, now deprecated; Wikipedia:File names – naming convention; Wikipedia:Image dos and don'ts – information page summarizing this page
All images used on Wikipedia must be uploaded to Wikipedia itself or Wikimedia Commons. That is, hotlinking is not supported. Images uploaded to Wikipedia are automatically placed into the File namespace (formerly known as the Image namespace), i.e., the names of image pages start with the prefix File:.
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