[Translators-l] Fwd: Help appreciated with language link templates

[Erik Moeller]

FYI


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From: Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org>
Date: Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 9:55 PM
Subject: Help appreciated with language link templates
To: Wikitech Ambassadors <wikitech-ambassadors at lists.wikimedia.org>


Hi folks,

this is a quick note that Universal Language Selector's automatic font
loading kicks in for any fonts required to render language name in
lists of languages which are _not_ standard interlanguage links in the
sidebar. So these are typically things like templates at the top or
bottom of pages. Sometimes these can be found on the Main Pages of
monolingual wikis, and often on pages in multilingual wikis.

The ULS team developed the autonym font, which only has a 50K payload,
to reduce font loading for these cases:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/10/28/the-autonym-font-for-language-names/

However, the CSS class "autonym" needs to be explicitly added to
relevant templates to enforce usage of the font. Community help is
appreciated in this process. Here's an example of a change to use the
autonym font for a list of language links on the English Wikipedia
Main Page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Wikipedia_languages/core&diff=prev&oldid=580505905

Changing language link templates to use the autonym font will make
pages load faster, so your help is much appreciated.

All best,
Erik

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Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation


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Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation