Extension:Math/Announcement

See http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-math/2014Oct/0003.html for the announcement on the MathML mailing list. On this page, we want to create a user centric announcement of the new features.

Dear Wikipedians,

I'd like to announce a major update of the Math (rendering) extension.

For registered Wikipedia users, we have introduced a new math rendering mode, called MathML that improves the layout of mathematical formulae. We encourage you to enable this new rendering mode in your preferences; you can  access the Appearance preferences by visiting user preferences on your wiki:

For example the URL for the English Wikipedia is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering

We are looking for your feedback so we can decide whether this new rendering mode can become the default for all (incl. unregistered) Wikipedia visitors.

For editors, there are two new optional features:

1) You can set the "id" attribute to create math tags that can be referenced. For example, the following math tag

E=mc^2

can be referenced by the wikitext mass energy equivalence. This is true irrespective of the rendering mode used.

2) In addition, there is the attribute "display" with the possible values "block" or "inline". This attribute can be used to control the layout of the math tag with regard to centering and size of the operators. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Math/Displaystyle for a full description, of this feature.

We now have a fixed team with support from the Wikimedia Foundation to maintain and improve the Math extension. This team consists of, Gabriel Wicke (WMF), Frédéric Wang (volunteer) and myself (Moritz Schubotz, volunteer).

Your feedback is very welcome. Please report bugs in Bugzilla against the Math extension, or post on the talk page here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:Math

Best Physikerwelt (Moritz Schubotz)