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 <[email protected]>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 <[email protected]>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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