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Mathoid: Robust, Scalable, Fast and Accessible Math Rendering for Wikipedia

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Wikipedia is the first address for scientists who want to recap basic mathematical and physical laws and concepts. Today, formulae in those pages are displayed as Portable Network Graphics images. Those images do not integrate well into the text, can not be edited after copying, are inaccessible to screen readers for people with special needs, do not support line breaks for small screens and do not scale for high resolution devices. Mathoid improves this situation and converts formulae specified by Wikipedia editors in a like input format to MathML, with Scalable Vector Graphics images as a fallback solution.

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  1. Database Systems and Information Management Group, Technische Universität Berlin, Einsteinufer 17, 10587, Berlin, Germany

    Moritz Schubotz

  2. Wikimedia Foundation, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.

    Gabriel Wicke

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  1. Computer Science Department, The University of Western Ontario, MC 375,, N6A 5B7, London, ON, Canada

    Stephen M. Watt

  2. Departments of Computer Science and Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath, Claverton Down, BA2 7AY, Bath, UK

    James H. Davenport

  3. School of Computer Science, Edgbaston, University of Birmingham, B15 2TT, Birmingham, UK

    Alan P. Sexton

  4. Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Botanicá 6a, 60200, Brno, Czech Republic

    Petr Sojka

  5. Institute for Computing Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen, Postbus 9010,, 6525, Nijmegen, GL, The Netherlands

    Josef Urban

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Schubotz, M., Wicke, G. (2014). Mathoid: Robust, Scalable, Fast and Accessible Math Rendering for Wikipedia. In: Watt, S.M., Davenport, J.H., Sexton, A.P., Sojka, P., Urban, J. (eds) Intelligent Computer Mathematics. CICM 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8543. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08434-3_17

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