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<math> tag not working
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Author: rmilson

Description:
Instead of displaying math tags the system shows a message

Failed to parse (Can't write to or create math output directory):

Currently this affects a numerous minority of mathematics-related entries. Examples:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilinear_operator
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cramer%27s_rule

Here is an example of a <math> tag behaving normally
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_contraction


Version: unspecified
Severity: major
OS: Windows XP
Platform: PC
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_operations

Details

Reference
bz5657

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 9:11 PM
bzimport set Reference to bz5657.
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robchur wrote:

Purging seems to clear this up. Append action=purge to the URL of affected
pages, which forces them to be re-rendered.