I'll reply about the technical part without getting into the copyright
issues. (I'll only say that a non-free font like Wingdings will
definitely not be added to the official Wikimedia version.)

And yes, it's certainly possible to add a font, though a bit
complicated. That is, to add a custom font you have to edit code.
Maybe it would be more robust if it could be done through a
configuration file.

In short, to add a font you have to do two things:
1. Add the font files to the fonts directory.

2. Add a few lines of code to the js/webfonts.fontlist.js file.

To make it work in all browsers, you must also convert the TTF file to
a WOFF file and to an EOT file. Instructions about that can be found
at the. You must also think about the language to which you'll assign
this font. Picking a dummy language code like 'en-x-wingdings' might
work, even though it's not standard (or it might not work because some
browsers won't like a non-standard code). This extension was not built
for improving the design of webpages, but for supporting languages, so
you'll need a hack to make it work as you wish.

The full instructions for editing the code and for adding the font
files appear in
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WebFonts#Adding_a_new_language_support

Hope it helps!

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2012/6/12 Isabell Alcott <[email protected]>:
> Hi and Hello,
>
> may I again ask about this Wingdings.ttf font style. I know that it is
> possible to install additional fonts into mediawiki.
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WebFonts
>
> So my question is if it isnt also possible for Wingdings.
>
> Itried to alter the WebFonts extension but it seems not to have an effect.
>
> Some Helps and Tipps are highly appreciated.
> Isa
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