As discussed on IRC with @mobrovac the changing of the default mode is scheduled in the following phases:

1. tuesday 2016-05-17 dewikibooks, mediawikiwiki, wikidata, and test
2. thursday 2016-05-19 all wikibooks
3. tuesday 2016-05-26 the rest

@Lydia_Pintscher is that OK for wikidata (we did not get feedback on IRC)

@Physikerwelt I am not able to say as I don't understand the implications of the change. Can you elaborate here or on IRC?

Just talked on IRC with @Physikerwelt. It seems for Wikidata this is a cosmetic change and outside of item pages we likely don't have a lot of formulas anyway so I think it is good to go.

In T131177#2289480, @Physikerwelt wrote:

1. tuesday 2016-05-17 dewikibooks, mediawikiwiki, wikidata, and test

I ended up putting it up for SWAT for today.

@mobrovac Why did you remove those projects?

In T131177#2296921, @Danny_B wrote:

@mobrovac Why did you remove those projects?

Ups, wanted to remove only Wikimedia-Site-requests , sorry for the confusion.

In T131177#2297056, @mobrovac wrote:

In T131177#2296921, @Danny_B wrote:

@mobrovac Why did you remove those projects?

Ups, wanted to remove only Wikimedia-Site-requests , sorry for the confusion.

Doesn't it need any changes to InitialiseSettings.php or any other config file?

Resurrected that too. Its definition has changed since I last checked it.

Thanks. Consider also adding Mathoid (most of Math tasks have overlap with it...).

Change 286180 merged by jenkins-bot:
Enable MathML rendering by default on test, wikidata and dewikibooks

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/286180

In T131177#2297464, @Danny_B wrote:

Thanks. Consider also adding Mathoid (most of Math tasks have overlap with it...).

Yup, indeed, but that's not the case here. The Math extension is already actively using Mathoid behind the scenes when the MathML mode is selected, this task is about enabling that in the extension.

And thanks for pointing out my phab-project mistakes.

As of now, MathML is the default rendering mode on:

• https://test.wikipedia.org
• https://test2.wikipedia.org
• https://de.wikibooks.org
• https://www.mediawiki.org
• https://www.wikidata.org

Is there anything left blocking this or can we go ahead and make the change for en.wikipedia.org as the original RFC was?

@mobrovac will take care of this task.

Our time schedule was

1  tuesday  2016-05-17 dewikibooks, mediawikiwiki, wikidata, and test
2  thursday 2016-05-19 all wikibooks
3  tuesday  2016-05-26 the rest

My feeling is that T135955 should be closed before 3.

Thanks!

@Urbanecm I think it would be much better to wait for @mobrovac so
that this process works smoothly and is coordinated by a single person
keeping track of everything that needs to be done.

Ok.

@Physikerwelt is said "3 tuesday 2016-05-26 the rest" but today is the 24th, not the 26th and it is tuesday. Also, is it done now then?

Change 290644 had a related patch set uploaded (by Mobrovac):
Math: Enable MathML on all wikibooks

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/290644

Moving all wikibooks projects to MathML by default has been scheduled for today, May 25. If all goes according to plan, moving all of the projects to use MathML by default will happen early next week (Monday or Tuesday at the latest).

The delay in schedule has been due to some setbacks with the MW deploy train and some extra bugs we've uncovered in Mathoid, the MathML rendering service.

Thanks, @mobrovac. I hope that everything goes on schedule.

Change 290644 merged by jenkins-bot:
Math: Enable MathML on all wikibooks

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/290644

Just wondering how this works with VE. Currently when editing with VE on mediawiki.org (which I beleive has the new system). The VE displays existing equations in PNG mode, but if you edit them it seems to switch to SVG mode. After a save re-editing seems to all be in SVG mode. I'm also seeing more space than I'd like around display equations in VE

Compare editing
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=User:Salix_alba&oldid=1879446&veaction=edit
displays using PNG

with
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=User:Salix_alba&oldid=2148821&veaction=edit
displays using SVG. If I use <math display="block"> around an equation VE is displaying much too much space around the equation.

I've also managed to cause a situation where the equations didn't display at all. Start editing in source mode, then switch to VE and the equations don't display. I'll file a separate bug for this.

Change 291766 had a related patch set uploaded (by Mobrovac):
Math: Enable MathML everywhere but private wikis

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/291766

MathML has been scheduled to become the default on all wikis on Tuesday, May 31st.

Almost there! I hope we don't have any more delays!

Change 291766 merged by jenkins-bot:
Math: Enable MathML everywhere but private wikis

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/291766

It very very broken at the moment. On en.wikipedia.org

I'm getting messages like

Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "/mathoid/local/v1/":): {\displaystyle A \frac{\pi}{2}}

Further to the above. My preference was set to "MathML with SVG or PNG fallback" before the rollout. When I started editing in the source editor the preview was full of red error messages. These persisted when saving.

I've managed to fix things by switching my preference to PNG mode, saving. Then switching my preference back to ""MathML with SVG or PNG fallback". Things seem to be working OK now.

This has also been discussed on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#MathML_glitch
it seems like some edits are corrupting the mathematics in some pages, and the pages needed to be purged. It seems to be articles which were edited at around 22:22 on 31 May 2016

This change means that it is no longer possible to copy and paste math (from Chrome at least). It might help to make the SVG fallback an actual inline image, but I can't even seem to get that to copy and paste.

I know a lot of people that copy and paste equations from Wikimedia sites (WP and WB) as a quick and easy way of displaying them in presentations and the like, and this is going to break that.

Is that a result of enabeling MathML?

Seems like its the optional parameter

\begin{arrray}{rcl} ...

works fine but

\begin{arrray}[h]{rcl} ...

fails. I'm not sure what the parameter did and can see any difference or any documentation for the syntax.

In T131177#2344087, @Rillke wrote:

Is that a result of enabeling MathML?

Tracked in T136685

Hey @mobrovac and @Physikerwelt, do you think a banner should be put up (for all users or just logged in ones?) that MathML is now the default and if you are logged in that it is recommended to enable it? I have already put up an RFC for T136685#2345546 at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#RFC:_Replace_all_instances_of_.5Bh.5D_in_TeX.2FLaTeX_.28and_in_MathJax.29_with_.5Btcb.5D so I could easily add that banner as part of the RFC for en-wiki at least. I think there is some global version on meta, but I would recommend someone else add that as I am very active in that community.

I'm not sure about a banner but It should probably go in the Tech news https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News
which appear in the Signpost and elsewhere.

I also think the name of the preference option should be changed. It's misleading to say it is MathML when MathML is never actually served. Its probably simpler just to call it the SVG option.

As to the sporadic errors. This might be a stability issue. How often do the servers fall over?

In T131177#2345969, @SalixAlba wrote:

I'm still getting sporadic

"Math extension cannot connect to Restbase."

and

Failed to parse (Conversion error. Server ("https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_") reported: "Cannot get mml. Server problem."): R_{2}

errors. I get a different set of errors each time I press "Show preview" without changing the text.

Tracked in T136812, let's continue this discussion there.

In T131177#2251400, @Physikerwelt wrote:

Update with regard to 3: It took a while but we got plenty of feedback now. As a result we reconsidered to decision to delver MathML as default for firefox users. Now they get SVG's as well and need to install a add on which provides really good MathML support.

A firefox user who has been using MathML has asked about loosing this at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help_talk:Displaying_a_formula#MathML_broken_again.3F
is there a way people who want MathML can get that?

@SalixAlba I wrote a reply on that page. There is a new section on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Math "Viewing math" that describes method to get optimal rendering results with various browsers.

I'm going to go ahead and put up an RFC for a banner on en-wiki later today. If people think it is a bad idea there, then it won't go up. If not you might see a banner advertising MathML with SVG or PNG fallback soon!

Does anyone know of an extension for native MathML display on Chrome? I have tried a couple of extensions, but they don't seem to work.

No, Chrome is not supported at all. There is a plugin, which works over http but not over https https://github.com/andrusha/mathml-chrome/issues/7

@Hungryce You could vote for https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=152430 if using chrome is important to you.

Chrome is what I usually use, and it has all the extensions I use. I should just use another browser as I have every browser available for my computer (except Chromium as I don't feel like compiling it).

In T131177#2343273, @TTO wrote:

This change means that it is no longer possible to copy and paste math (from Chrome at least). It might help to make the SVG fallback an actual inline image, but I can't even seem to get that to copy and paste.

I know a lot of people that copy and paste equations from Wikimedia sites (WP and WB) as a quick and easy way of displaying them in presentations and the like, and this is going to break that.

This little bit of javascript in your vector.js makes it so that when you double click on a maths equation an alert box pops up with latex in it.

$(".mwe-math-mathml-a11y").each(function(ind,ele) {
		$(ele.parentElement).dblclick(function(ev) {
			var root = ev.delegateTarget;
			var latex = $(root).find("annotation").text();
			alert(latex);
		});
	});

You can then copy and paste that. There might be an easier implement this, say a right click menu. At one point the latex was in the title/alt text of the image.

In T131177#2355219, @SalixAlba wrote:

This little bit of javascript in your vector.js makes it so that when you double click on a maths equation an alert box pops up with latex in it.

Sure, but I wasn't really talking about myself. I was referring to a loss of functionality to a wider, non-technical audience, who just want to copy the mathematical equations as graphics for display.

@TTO, @SalixAlba: @Physikerwelt is also re-adding the alt text attribute to the SVG in T136915. This has been merged today, so should go out this week.