Dear MediaWiki developers,
I have written a LaTeX to MathML converter designed specifically for Wikipedia.
More information is available at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Blahtex.
There is also a download page at http://abel.math.harvard.edu/~dmharvey/blahtex/index.php where you will find: * source code (C++, GNU GPL license) * interactive online demo * every equation in (English) Wikipedia filtered through texvc and blahtex, side by side for visual comparison
I am hoping that this will spur some action towards getting MediaWiki to actually spit out real MathML. I am aware that there are some very complicated issues involved and that this is not an easy problem to solve. Nevertheless, I hope that having a working converter (at least at some kind of decent alpha stage) will inspire some effort in this direction.
I have cross-posted a similar message at Village Pump:technical and on the mathematics wikiproject talk page.
If you have ideas about how to make this happen, I want to hear about it! Thanks in advance for your help.
David Harvey (User:Dmharvey on en.wikipedia.org and at meta.wikimedia.org)