[Mediawiki-i18n] beta testing mobile webfonts

[Pavanaja U B]

I have not done extensive test of Kannada, Hindi and & other Indian languages Wikipedias on mobiles. But what I can say is that it will be beneficial to have webfonts for mobiles. I am ready to help in any way needed

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

 

 

From: mediawiki-i18n-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-i18n-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Dhaval S. Vyas
Sent: 19 December 2013 15:50
To: MediaWiki internationalisation
Cc: mobile-tech
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-i18n] beta testing mobile webfonts

 

Hi Ryan,

I am admin on Gujarati wiki and use mobile wiki as well, I would say it is a problem today not to have webfonts.

I am happy to be tester.

Regards,
Dhaval
User:Dsvyas

On 19 Dec 2013 09:26, "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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