Hello,
On Tuesday, May 31 we have deployed a change to the production cluster that sets MathML with SVG fall-back as the default rendering mode for mathematical formulae for all Wikimedia projects~[1]. This change brings scaleable and selectable formulae to the whole Wikimedia community, not just logged-in users, thus opening new perspectives for better rendering, accessibility, search, equation sharing, font and unicode support, styling, line breaking…
We are very excited about this feature seeing the light of day, not only because of the visible improved experience for our reader and editors, but also because this project has been carried out in collaboration with the community. In particular, this achievement would not have been possible without Moritz Schubotz (aka User:Physikerwelt), who has been the lead developer of Mathoid, the rendering service responsible for producing the MathML and SVG code that the end-users see on the web-site.
You can read more about this awesome feature on the MathML Association’s web-site~[2].
Best, The WMF Services Team
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131177 [2] http://mathml-association.org/announcement/2016/05/31/wikipedia.html
Awesome work, Physikerwelt and all involved!
On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 9:46 AM, Marko Obrovac mobrovac@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello,
On Tuesday, May 31 we have deployed a change to the production cluster that sets MathML with SVG fall-back as the default rendering mode for mathematical formulae for all Wikimedia projects~[1]. This change brings scaleable and selectable formulae to the whole Wikimedia community, not just logged-in users, thus opening new perspectives for better rendering, accessibility, search, equation sharing, font and unicode support, styling, line breaking…
We are very excited about this feature seeing the light of day, not only because of the visible improved experience for our reader and editors, but also because this project has been carried out in collaboration with the community. In particular, this achievement would not have been possible without Moritz Schubotz (aka User:Physikerwelt), who has been the lead developer of Mathoid, the rendering service responsible for producing the MathML and SVG code that the end-users see on the web-site.
You can read more about this awesome feature on the MathML Association’s web-site~[2].
Best, The WMF Services Team
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131177 [2] http://mathml-association.org/announcement/2016/05/31/wikipedia.html
-- Marko Obrovac, PhD Senior Services Engineer Wikimedia Foundation
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