The documentation is useless. I spent the entire morning and a good bit of the afternoon trying to replicate these steps on multiple virtual machines as a test to see if this is possible. This page is utter total shit. Not one, not a single one of these paths resulted in the goal being met. Is this really what MediaWiki is?
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@Whatamidoing (WMF)I think this user is dissatisfied with the mathoid documentation as many other users that comment on this page. I am maintaining https://github.com/wikimedia/mathoid/ (even though it might not be good enough as well). If something does not work I can also take care of bugs filed on Phabricator with the tag mathoid. Does WMF has a user support system for users that have difficulties with products offered by WMF? Can we also use the same pipeline for mathoid?
No, unfortunately, there is no official support from the WMF for any third-party wiki. However, people with questions are welcome to ask other volunteers for help at the Project:Support desk or to join one of the off-wiki groups, such as the MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group. @MarkAHershberger probably knows about more groups that might be relevant.
@Physikerwelt https://discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org/ is the planned support system (although as Whatamidoing says there isn't really such a thing as "products offered by WMF"), still in beta (see Discourse), but so far not a lot of effort went into making sure that users find it. Then again I don't think we should waste time on people who are unable to show some minimal respect to those whose hard work they are trying to use for free, so all a support system would do in such a case is moving the comments to the trash can.