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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.
No default – editors manually choose printability of redirects; N/A – non-applicable – rcat is not used in mainspace or it is deprecated; Exceptions may also be noted in the third column, such as alternative language redirects that only default to "printable" when the redirect title is in English and its target is in another language.
When viewing page information, the wiki software can show additional custom text at the start and end of the page. The top of the information page (before the first section for "Basic information") comes from MediaWiki:Pageinfo-header. It is blank by default, but individual wikis can add content here. For example, on English Wikipedia, the ...
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Once you save a red link there, and create the page, the link will turn blue and will be accessible anytime you visit it. Go to your user or user talk page (both permanently linked at the top of any Wikipedia page); Surround the page title you want to create in doubled brackets, e.g., [[Proposed Title]]; Click the Publish changes button;
Essays and information pages may be established by writing them and adding {}, {{Information page}}, {{Wikipedia how-to}}, or a similar template to the page. Current policy and guideline proposals can be found in Category:Wikipedia proposals, and failed ones at Category:Wikipedia failed proposals. All editors are welcome to comment.
See Wikipedia:Image use policy § Image galleries for further information on galleries. Use |upright=scaling factor to adjust the size of images; for example, |upright=1.3 displays an image 30% larger than the default, and |upright=0.60 displays it 40% smaller. Lead images should usually be no larger than |upright=1.35.
As noted in the lead, "Certain page elements that are self-references within Wikipedia normally do not print; these include section edit links, navigation boxes, message boxes and metadata." AS to who decided and why, you can dig through the archived discussions at MediaWiki talk:Common.css and Template talk:Navbox .