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texvc service

Hi, cook, it seems that the equation displaying soft, texvc, is not working properly? I am not getting any new equation displayed, and it has been since January. Would you check? Many thanks! Gamebm (talk)

I see it is fixed by now, thanks!Gamebm (talk) 13:59, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

SITENAME modification

Hi, I would like to know whether there is a way that I can modify the SITENAME of my wiki site? Gamebm (talk) 01:48, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

If you tell me what you want it changed to, I can change it in the settings file :)--Cook879 (talk) 09:30, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
 Thanks a lot! The current SITENAME of gamebm.shoutwiki.com is "Lecture Notes Series", I would like to change it to "LaTeX Notes Series". Gamebm (talk) 13:15, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
Changed.--Cook879 (talk) 23:25, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
Got it, thx!Gamebm (talk) 23:57, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

Question about page title

When I create a page by using internal link Research Paper Notes on Particle Correlation in Wigner Function Approach Sometime, it creates a page with extra "whitespace" before the first letter (thought they are not real whitespaces in the address) http://gamebm.shoutwiki.com/wiki/%EF%BB%BFResearch_Paper_Notes_on_Particle_Correlation_in_Wigner_Function_Approach However, when I check the address http://gamebm.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Research_Paper_Notes_on_Particle_Correlation_in_Wigner_Function_Approach It does not exist. Then I thought that I would prefer the page without those extra spaces and went on create a second page (with identical content). However, I cannot figure out a way to link to the second page. I tried things like Research Paper Notes on Particle Correlation in Wigner Function Approach and found out it still points to the first page. I tired to delete the second page and move the first page, it said the detestation page has the same title and refused the operation. I am quite confused at this point, since it only seems to happen to some of the pages but when and why does this happen and is there a way that I can "fix" the address. Thanks a lot! Gamebm (talk) 12:25, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

Edit: Sometimes I got it work... by mysterious reason. I was managed to fix the above example without knowing why and how I did it. Gamebm (talk) 12:49, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

Edit: I now am so confused, see the difference the following links, why some get an extra whitespace while others don't? The worst part is that I may be able to change some of these links by blindly moving, deleting and creating pages.

Gamebm (talk) 13:08, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

Hi Gamebm. It appears that, somehow, you're adding invisible unicode (%EF%BB%BF) in front of some of your titles. The best fix for this I have is to try deleting between the double brackets and the first letter of the page name. If there is the unicode here it should delete. For example using your titles above, pressing delete between the brackets and R got rid of the code in the second and third links. --Cook879 (talk) 13:26, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
Research Paper Notes on Particle Correlation in Wigner Function Approach got it, thank you so much!Gamebm (talk) 14:24, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Problem with LaTeX Equation Display

Hi, Cook. It seems there is a problem with the latex equation display recently. I got the error message " Failedtoparse(syntaxerror)" on all pages. (eg. <math>\alpha\frac{1}{2}{\cal F}</math>) Since it has been for a few days, I am asking just to make sure this is transient or you have adopted different equation display sistem? Thanks. Gamebm (talk) 13:39, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

Hi Gamebm,
It might be something to do with the recent MediaWiki 1.23.0 update - I'll enquire with the technical team and get back to you.
Best regards,
--Cook879 ShoutWiki Staff talk 17:36, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

Shoutwiki and Mediawiki

Hi, Cook, I have another question. I think shoutwiki basically uses MediaWiki, but I also noticed that the equation display of shoutwiki is different from that of wikipedia.com, and I think the former is better. What makes the difference and is it possible to install shoutwiki setup on a different server (for non-comercial use only)? Thanks a lot. Gamebm (talk) 12:05, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

Hi Gamebm,
ShoutWiki runs on MediaWiki, though yes we have a lot of extensions installed, most free to use on any site. For math, we use the same extension that Wikipedia uses. I'm not sure what settings Wikipedia uses, but here's our settings, found online here:
require_once("$IP/extensions/Math/Math.php");
$wgUseTeX = true;
$wgTexvc = "$IP/extensions/Math/math/texvc";
$wgUseMathJax = true; // enabeling MathJax as rendering option
$wgDefaultUserOptions['mathJax'] = true;
$wgMathJaxUrl = 'http://shoutwiki.com/w/extensions/Math/modules/MathJax/MathJax.js';
Hope this helps,
--Cook879 ShoutWiki Staff talk 23:53, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
Thanks a lot! Gamebm (talk) 01:39, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

Problem with LaTeX equation display (once more)

Hi, Cook. The LaTeX equation display has been back for a while. However, today I found out that there is a quite hidden issue as following.

The problem involves the typeset mathcal (and the like, as far as I noticed). When one uses \mathbf{ABC} it seems to work well. However, when one uses \mathcal{ABC}, it does display correctly for the moment, and then the page goes through some compiling process (which takes a while) and eventually display the normal typeset.

<math>\mathbf{ABC}</math>

<math>\mathcal{ABC}</math>

In fact, it takes the same amount of time for the wiki to interpret (sometimes, not really correctly) other LaTeX markup such as cal

<math>\cal{ABC}</math>

Thanks a lot! Gamebm (talk) 14:43, 10 September 2014 (UTC)