https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2361


Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #12 from Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]>  2009-07-16 
20:21:40 UTC ---
This should be available not just on Tamil Wikipedia. I can easily imagine it
being useful on every WMF project and MediaWiki in general.

A very generic example: articles about languages and alphabets in every
Wikipedia.

A less generic example: Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar on the English Wikisource has
passages in Biblical Hebrew on every page and it needs a font which isn't
installed on most people's computers. Fortunately, this font, called "Ezra SIL
SR", is Free Software, released under the Open Font License, but few people who
would be interested in reading this book have the technical knowledge or
patience to download and install a new font.

Ideally, font files would be uploaded to Commons, but since they may have very
intricate copyright problems, the developers may upload a limited number of
Free license-checked fonts to a server which is not too open. I don't imagine
that a huge number of font files would be needed anyway and there aren't a lot
of Free Software fonts to begin with.


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