[Engineering] [ANNOUNCEMENT] MathML/SVG as the default rendering mode on all projects

Mon Jun 6 14:10:00 UTC 2016

Awesome work, Physikerwelt and all involved!

On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 9:46 AM, Marko Obrovac <mobrovac at 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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