2010/12/13 Gabriel Sandor gabi.t.sandor@gmail.com:
Is it possible to retrieve (preferably via the MediaWiki API) an image representing a mathematical formula given in the <math> tags that are frequently encountered in Wikipedia articles ?
There's no direct way to do this, although I guess it could be implemented. A workaround would be to do something like http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&text=<math>\gamma=\frac{1}{\sqrt{1-v^2}}</math>&format=yamlfm , which will give you the HTML generated for this <math> tag, which could be an image (like in this case), or HTML if the formula is sufficiently simple (try a^2+b^2=c^2 for instance).
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)