https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31406
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Bug #: 31406
Summary: MathJax!
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: General/Unknown
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
Again, this is a feature request rather than a bug report.
A lot of work has gone into making it possible to use MathJax to view TeX on
Wikipedia. Probably more than 20,000 article use TeX (or whichever variant of
TeX Wikipedia uses). I have corresponded with Robert Miner, MathJax Project
Director and Vice President or Research and Development at Design Science, Inc.
about the fact that MathJax could now be used. I told him that possibly in
coming months MathJax would be adopted as the default means of viewing TeX on
Wikipedia. He wrote:
QUOTE:
First of all, congratulations on you and your fellow contributors' monumental
achievement with Wikipedia. As a mathematician by training, I have been blown
away on several occasions by the depth of your coverage.
On the subject at hand, we have been corresponding with nageh a fair amount on
the MathJax lists, but we will take a look at the page you cite in detail. I
just skimmed it and I see there are a number of issues, some of which we know
about but some that look new.
Supporting Wikipedia is very important to us, so we will definitely want to do
some triage and see what we can do. Is updating the page you referenced the
best way to communicate with you folks? Also, you said "in coming months" but
anything more specific you can tell us about the timing (or how the decision
about timing is made) will help. We will may have to rethink our release
schedule depending on your timing.
END OF QUOTE
I told him him I was just guessing when I said "in coming months" and I don't
work on software development. But it would be nice if we could tell him
something more specific. Brion Vibber has recently said this will happen
whenever someone gets to it.
Can anyone make it possible to say something more specific?
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