MediaWiki math support stopped working

[axtimwalde]

MediaWiki used to support math rendering in blocks until recently. This has stopped working. Are there any plans to recover this extremely useful feature?

[gjtorikian]

The math tag leaks information out to the Google Charts API. We considered it a low-severity security issue while looking for a replacement. We don't like leaking any information to third-parties.

[axtimwalde]

@gjtorikian Thanks for the explanation. That is, however, not a very user-friendly approach. I personally do not mind sharing information with Google Charts, in particular when sharing information on GitHub. I assume that there is a significant fraction of users that would prefer sharing information with Google Charts over not having math typesetting. It would have been better to make math parsing optional, with default off.