In the May/June issue of the Mathematics Association of America’s news magazine MAA Focus, you’ll find an article titled “Student Collaboration using a LaTeX wiki” [pdf].
The article demonstrates the usefulness of the LaTeX extension for MediaWiki by enabling this great syntax to be used online in a collaborative environment such as a wiki.
It just happens that the LaTeX extension referenced in the article was written by Austin Che, a member of OpenWetWare’s steering committee. Which means that we’ve had a LaTeX enabled wiki for quite a while now 
If you don’t know what LaTeX is, I’d first suggest a read at Wikipedia’s LaTeX page.
If you’ve got a grasp of what LaTeX is, I’d recommend you head over to OWW’s LaTeX page where you’ll find information on the advantages and disadvantages, software for writing LaTeX, PhD thesis LaTeX templates and more…
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Tags: Austin Che, collaboration, Extension, Features, LaTeX, MediaWiki, Syntax
Posted by Ricardo Vidal
Ricardo Vidal is a graduate student in Biological Engineering at University of Algarve (Portugal) and is also currently the Community Developer at OpenWetWare.
He also maintains a personal blog called My Biotech Life.
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