Wikimedia Community User Group Math

This group represents the mathematicians worldwide that use Wikimedia products (such as MediaWiki, Wikibase) on WMF-hosted and privately hosted servers. While our long-term objective is to make mathematical knowledge better accessible to every human being in close collaboration with the Wikimedia 2030 movement, our short-term objective is to coordinate the global activities to improve the display and retrieval of mathematical expressions, such as Failed to parse (Conversion error. Server ("https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_") reported: "Class "Wikibase\Client\WikibaseClient" not found"): {\displaystyle e^{i\pi }+1=0} . More specifically, until Thursday, May 24, 2018, the syntax of the input for mathematical formulae in MediaWiki, i.e., Wikipedia and Wikibase, i.e., Wikidata was fixed. Now, we are in a position that we can change the input syntax and implement new features. To do so we need to reach a global consensus on how to design the details of the new syntax and which new features would be most beneficial towards the success of our vision.

Objectives

Founding of the Wiki Math Community Group

• agree on (realistic) goals how to change the syntax
• improve math rendering quality
• make math more accessible (to machines and APIs)
• improve editing of math formulae
• improve the accessibility of mathematical formulae

Activities

2024-07 to 2025-12

• Enable MathJax rendering in all wikis Template:Done
• Enable native MathML rendering phab:T271001

2023-07 to 2024-06

• Implement native MathML rendering ticket Template:Done
• Add support for MathJax ticket (status security review passed)
• Native MathML enabled on all wikis Template:Done
• Disable MathImages
• Support for \overarc ticket Template:Done

2023-01 to 2023-06

• Convert texvcjs to PHP Template:Done
• integral symbol with short horizontal bar in the middle (⨍,⨎) ticketTemplate:Done

2022

• Switch to MathJax 3? Ticket Not possible
• Remove PNG rendering mode announcement ticket Template:Done
• Move mailing list to Wikimedia Ticket Template:Done
• Allow for TeX command phantom Ticket Template:Done
• Fixing several bugs (list of completed tasks)

2021

• Join the W3C Math WG Ticket Template:Done

2020

• Italic rendering of greek o Ticket DiscussionTemplate:Done
• Spacing around \xrightarrow Ticket Template:Done
• Improve SVG rendering of \oinit Ticket Template:Done
• Italic rendering of greek o Ticket Discussion
• Spacing around \xrightarrow Ticket Template:Done
• Improve SVG rendering of \oinit Ticket Template:Done

2019

• Close collaboration with the GDML initative and reports on the progress in the each Friday Template:Done
• Meetup at the CICM in Prague (Session OM5) on July 10th, 12:00. See also announcement in czech.Template:Done
• Meetup at the annual meeting of the German Mathematical Society on Sep. 23 Template:Done
• Establishmet of a mailing listTemplate:Done
• Meetup at the Symmetry conference in Benasque on Sep. 02 Template:Done
• Decide on support for Capital Greek letters see Test 94-103 Discussion Template:Done
• Math at the Wikimedia Technical Conference 2019 Template:Done
• Hyperlinks in formulae Template:Done

2024

• A major project is underway to Transition to MathML rendering as default
• This will eventually result in the removal of the Server-Side SVG rendered, client side MathJax rendering will still be a long term option
• Other than the Phabricator main task and umbrella task for MathML bugs Template:Phab the page mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Math/Native_MathML_rollout_(2024) can be used for discussion.

History

2018-06-21 Resolution 1: Deprecate texvc commands conflicting with LaTeX commands used in common packages https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Math/Roadmap#Step_1_Part_A:_Remove_problematic_texvc_redefinitions

Contact information

• Moritz Schubotz (Physikerwelt)
• André Greiner-Petter (AndreG-P)

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Participants

Please add your name here:

1. --Salix alba (talk) 05:53, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
2. --Debenben (talk) 18:43, 21 December 2018 (UTC)
3. --Physikerwelt (talk) 06:48, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
4. --Michael Hardy (talk) 21:29, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
5. --David Eppstein (talk) 13:43, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
6. --GastelEtzwane (talk) 23:00, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
7. --Alexmar983 (talk) 10:31, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
8. --B20180 (talk) 12:32, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
9. Viztor (talk) 23:22, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
10. →Spiritia 12:42, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
11. --D.Lazard (talk) 08:05, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
12. —M@sssly^✉ 16:47, 14 January 2020 (UTC)
13. --Danfilatov (talk) 22:53, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
14. Template:U
15. SHISHIR DUA (talk) 17:50, 27 November 2020 (UTC)
16. «»JesusMCarrasco ^✉ 22:51, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
17. Yomomo (talk) 09:11, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
18. Ralffralff (talk) 15:58, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
19. Stegmujo (talk) 18:45, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
20. AHEJJ908WILEMAMALIDGED (talk) 03:43, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
21. Vikas Rajpoot
22. Daniel Mietchen (talk) 22:47, 22 November 2022 (UTC)
23. --AyourAchtouk (talk) 16:50, 23 December 2022 (UTC)
24. Sir Amugi (talk) 21:09, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
25. 787IYO (talk) 20:18, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
26. Jacobolus (talk) 16:54, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
27. Egezort (talk) 23:41, 27 September 2023 (UTC)
28. Katja Berčič (talk) 12:16, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
29. Alphaechoromeo, 8 August 2024(UTC)
30. TienMinh-mun6xnching (talk) 10:19, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
31. --Ishtiak Abdullah (talk) 20:12, 23 January 2025 (UTC)

See also

• 1 Minute introduction to math rendering improvement (from joint conference of digital libraries 2020)
• https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2019/Reading/Functional_and_beautiful_math_for_everyone
• https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2017/Reading/Functional_and_beautiful_math_for_everyone
• https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Technische_W%C3%BCnsche/Topw%C3%BCnsche/Schriftgr%C3%B6%C3%9Fe_mathematischer_Formeln_vereinheitlichen
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T195861 (First attempt to get the people involved via Phabricator)

Literature

• https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-62075-6_5
• http://metameso.org/~joe/papers/corneli2017math.pdf

Affiliations Committee Resolutions

• Wikimedia Community User Group Math