TeX should be working again on the English Wikipedia.
There were two problems:
* the code assumed that the rendered PNG files would be available if there was an entry for an equation in the math table, but this assumption is false when two web servers try to access one database. Some equations therefore were rendered only on one server and missing on the other.
* the alias for the '/math' directory on pliny's www/en.wikipedia.org was pointing towards the common math directory for the UTF-8 wikis, but it was configured to dump rendered images into the Latin-1 common dir. So, new equations that were rendered weren't being served out unless they were also present on another non-Latin1 wiki.
I haven't checked in the code that checks for the image files to CVS just yet, as I've got a couple of separate copies of the code to merge. It's nothing real radical.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Brion Vibber wrote:
TeX should be working again on the English Wikipedia.
I should note a caveat: where images were missing due to the server split, they won't be rerendered on a cached page view. You have to force a page re-render. If not logged in, log in and reload the page. If logged in, see http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Clear_your_cache (or edit the page, or look at it as a diff, or edit/preview, or several other things that can force it to render.)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)