For now I've decided to fork Extension:SimpleMathJax and fix some issues I had with it, but ultimately I'd prefer to use Extension:Math with Mathoid since that seems to be the direction Wikipedia is going. But while moving in the same direction as WMF wikis is good for stability, bug fixes, feature additions, etc, I'm concerned about the complexity and lack of documentation for setting this up. Furthermore, I'm concerned how introducing RESTBase would negatively impact the rest of my setup, particularly Parsoid. I also don't understand (and this is probably just my ignorance) why RESTBase is required as an intermediary. Shouldn't it be possible to configure Extension:Math to talk directly to Mathoid like VisualEditor can talk directly to Parsoid?
Is RESTBase likely to give me any performance improvement, or is the overhead likely to hurt my performance? Approximately 5-10k hits per day with a pretty high edit:view ratio.
Thanks, James
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 12:32 PM, Moritz Schubotz physik@physikerwelt.de wrote:
Hi James,
unfortunately it's currently a hard requirement. While it improved the performance significantly for large content providers like Wikipedia it made setting up mathoid on small privately hosted instances more difficult. Setting up a simpler way to enable math on private wikis is on my todo list. However, this guide is the best pointer I can give at the moment:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Math/Restbase
Please let me know if you encouter difficulties following the instructions provided at this page.
Best
physikerwelt
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 6:48 PM, James Montalvo jamesmontalvo3@gmail.com wrote:
Extension:Math removed client side MathJax support after MW 1.25. This makes setup of the Math extension considerably more difficult. Mathoid
was
fairly straightforward, but RESTBase seems like it is much more complicated. Is RESTBase a hard requirement? Is there any way to connect
to
Mathoid directly, the way VE can connect to Parsoid directly?
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