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 to announce the recent updates in the Math (rendering) extension. For registered Wikipedia readers, we 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 preference in the appearance tab. You can append Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering to the URL of your wiki to navigate there. For example the URL for the English Wikipedia is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering

Based on your feedback, we consider making this new rending mode the default for all (even 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 equaivalence.

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.

From an organization point of view, we are now in the situation, that we have now 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).

Any feedback is welcome.

Best Physikerwelt (Moritz Schubotz)