On Thu, Dec 07, 2023 at 11:44:53PM -0800, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> It would be great to work with collaborators who can help
> me upgrade that server to Debian Bookworm and the web
> pages to mediawiki.
MediaWiki - I'm stuck. The basic wiki behavior is working,
but the next step (before wikifarm) is learning how to add
math markup, and also how to make incremental backups of
the mariadb database.
Save the backup question for a subsequent email.
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Wikipedia's math markup resembles LaTeX at the user level;
TeX is I prefer and what I've used since the 1980s.
I want to duplicate that user interface and markup
format for my own mediawiki websites.
Wikipedia:Sandbox example LaTeX markup:
<math>\sqrt{x^2+y^2}</math>
That renders as an SVG in the Wikipedia Sandbox, using
Brave Browser and Firefox.
The second line of "view-source" of the SVG image is:
<title id="MathJax-SVG-1-Title">{\displaystyle {\sqrt {x^{2}+y^{2}}}}</title>
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QUESTIONS:
How does the Wikipedia server create that SVG image
"under the covers"?
How do I configure MediaWiki to use the same tool chain
on my own Debian 12 Bookworm server?
What IS that toolchain at this time, and how do I query
the Wikipedia site to learn what it is?
Which document(s) should I read? Which contradictory
documents should I ignore?
Which mailing list should I be asking instead?
Keith L.
P.S. I wouldn't mind paying a MediaWiki/Wikipedia guru
to show me how to do this, perhaps even teach a class
to show MANY of us how to do this.
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Keith Lofstrom [email protected]
