[Mediawiki-i18n] beta testing mobile webfonts

[Ryan Kaldari]

Erg, I think I sent this to the wrong mailing list. I should have sent it
to localisation-team at lists.wikimedia.org, not
mediawiki-i18n at lists.wikimedia.org. Sorry!

Ryan Kaldari


On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari at wikimedia.org>wrote:

> Yes, the email was mostly intended for the language team, but anyone is
> welcome to add their thoughts. Everything has been deployed at this point
> and it is only a question of changing a config variable. I have no specific
> timeline for it (since it's just a side project), but I would love to start
> beta testing it before the end of the year.
>
> Ryan Kaldari
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Arthur Richards <arichards at wikimedia.org>wrote:
>
>> I suspect this is something the language team will best be able to answer.
>>
>> Beyond this, do you need any other support in order to get webfonts out
>> to one of these wikis? And out of curiosity, what is your timeline for this?
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari at wikimedia.org>wrote:
>>
>>> Per conversations with Amir, Santhosh, Siebrand, and Jon, I would like
>>> to beta test mobile webfonts on 1 wiki and then possibly add more wikis
>>> later if the beta test does not cause any adverse effects. To this end, I
>>> have identified seven candidate wikis that I would like your help to narrow
>>> down further. These seven wikis meet the following criteria:
>>> 1. The language of the wiki would benefit from loading a webfont by
>>> default
>>> 2. The default font would be less than 50K in size
>>> 3. The wiki has at least 50 active users (i.e. a community)
>>>
>>>  Language Code Articles Users Active Users Font Size  Punjabi pa 8,069
>>> 6,818 61 12.6K  Gujarati gu 24,623 17,696 59 28K  Marathi mr 39,621
>>> 39,114 135 36.4K  Nepali ne 24,944 14,379 73 36.5K  Hindi hi 109,045
>>> 101,837 274 37.3K  Oriya or 4,535 5,937 76 47.8K  Kannada kn 14,384
>>> 17,455 177 48K
>>>
>>> The main variables that I don't know are:
>>> 1. How bad is the experience on each of these wikis without webfonts?
>>> 2. Do we already have a working relationship with the communities on any
>>> of these wikis?
>>>
>>> If you guys could help me narrow down this list to one or two choices,
>>> it would be greatly appreciated!
>>>
>>> Ryan Kaldari
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>> --
>> Arthur Richards
>> Software Engineer, Mobile
>> [[User:Awjrichards]]
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