For example, when viewing this page on a mobile device:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Beland/math_bug
At first, <math>\sqrt{2}</math> in the image caption is rendered correctly as something like √2. Tapping on the image loads it for full-screen viewing, I think using the Media Viewer extension? The formula doesn't render properly, and is displayed as "2 {\displaystyle {\sqrt {2}}}".
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- T256528: Permit wikitext in captions
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The page https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Beland/math_bug renders correctly when viewed in a desktop browser. It seems to render fine on an android phone, in chrome and Samsung internet browser.
Image description pages like https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peano_intersection.png#/media/File:Peano_intersection.png do not render correctly in Firefox/Chrome running on windows 10, the equation is not displayed.
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Yes, you need to click on the image to see the bug, which takes you to e.g.: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Beland/math_bug#/media/File%3AWikipedia-logo-v2.svg (notice the broken square root in the description at the bottom of the page).
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That is because the MMV description is not a wiki page. You can also not put an image inside a caption for instance, or a graph, or a map.
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Right; images and graphs and stuff generally aren't needed in captions. But sometimes it is necessary to put complicated math expressions in captions to explain what is being visualized.