These external help pages are probably most up to date:
Further help below.
You can collect articles, generate and download a document in one of several formats from article collections or from single articles, order books from a print-on-demand partner and save article collections for later use or to share them.
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When you are on an article page, you see a small box titled "collection" on the left. Here you can add the current article (in the currently shown revision) to your collection. If the article has pre\ viously been added to the collection you can remove it instead.
Click "Show collection" to go to the Special:Collection. Here you can manage your collection:
To download a document in PDF, ODF or DocBook format of a single article, just go to the article page and click on the "Download as ..." inside the toolbox.
To download an entire collection as a document, go to the Special:Collection page, choose the desired format and click the "Download" button.
Some articles use wikitext that is not ideal for producing PDFs. One important special case is the use of templates that should look different or be omitted in PDF output.
For example all navigational templates should be excluded from PDFs by adding them to the Exclude in print category (see below). As a rule of thumb, all templates containing content which is not useful in an offline version of the document should be marked for exclusion in PDF exports.
There are two ways to utilize templates for a better PDF output:
One can override a template with another by creating a alternative template with name "PrintSOMETEMPLATE" where SOMETEMPLATE is the name of the original template.
* [[Template:Templatename]] * [[Template:SomeOtherTemplatename]]
You can easily order a book made from your collection. Just click on the links of a print-on-demand partner at the right of the Special:Collection page.
You have to be logged-in to save a collection. Go to the Special:Collection page, choose whether you want to save the collection as a subpage of your userpage or as a subpag\ e of Wikipedia:Collections, enter a title and click the save button. Collections are automatically added to the Collections category.
If you are on a collection page, the "collection" portlet on the left contains a "Load collection" link to load the shown collection.
A collection with title "My Collection" and subtitle "Just an Example" consisting of two chapters "Foo" and "Bar" each containing three articles will be saved as a page with the following [[wikitext]\ ]:
== My Collection == === Just an Example === ;Foo :[[First_article]] :[[Second_article]] :[[Third_article]] ;Bar :[[Fourth_article]] :[[Fifth_article]] :[[Sixth_article]] [[Category:Collections]]