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Make error messages for Math use wikitext
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The error messages for <math> are currently treated only as plain text. This means we can't add wikilinks or tracking categories to them. It would be nice if the Mediawiki messages for Math were processed as true wikitext, like we do for Cite errors, for example.

This makes it harder to find and correct errors.

In the context of Bug 31442, which has resulted in a very large number of math rendering errors, it would be much easier to know the extent of the problem (and deploy work arounds, if necessary) if we could track which pages were suffering from the bug.

Even if 31442 gets fixed soon, it would still be nice to have an easy way of finding malformed math output in the future.

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Severity: enhancement

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 21 2014, 11:47 PM
• bzimport added projects: Future-Release, Math.
• bzimport set Reference to bz31546.
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Dragons_flight created this task.Oct 9 2011, 12:51 AM
• bzimport added a comment.Feb 8 2014, 4:32 PM

physik wrote:

I would say that's after Math 2.0. Maybe target 2.1

Schnark added a comment.Sep 25 2014, 7:40 AM

Additionally the error messages math_notexvc and math_notexvccheck currently use HTML, which is shown as plain text, i.e. the <code> tags are visible, instead of rendering their content as code.

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Physikerwelt added a parent task: T106414: Release Math 3.0.
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Physikerwelt added a subtask: T117307: Release Mathoid 0.2.9.
Physikerwelt closed subtask T117307: Release Mathoid 0.2.9 as Resolved.Nov 11 2015, 8:53 PM
Physikerwelt added a parent task: T120396: Release Math 3.1.Dec 4 2015, 6:23 PM
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• Phabricator_maintenance removed a project: Future-Release.Aug 12 2016, 4:54 PM
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Golopotw added a parent task: T134872: Improve Math rendering errors.Jul 17 2017, 5:37 PM
IKhitron awarded a token.Jul 17 2017, 5:38 PM
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Golopotw subscribed.Jul 17 2017, 9:07 PM

The main complaint is solved by T134872. Close.

Golopotw closed this task as Resolved.Jul 17 2017, 9:07 PM
IKhitron added a comment.Jul 17 2017, 9:14 PM

@Golopotw, could you explain, please, what do you mean in "resolved"? Can I add a tracking category to the error message?

Golopotw added a comment.Jul 18 2017, 3:14 AM

You cannot manually add tracking category but Mathoid will do it for you now.
You can try to insert invalid math in you user sandbox and see it appear here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Pages_with_math_errors

IKhitron added a comment.Jul 18 2017, 9:01 AM

I see. Well, I know this category, I was the one that wrote about it in tech news. I misunderstood you that there is a way for the users to add wikitext to errors. Thank you.

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