On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 18:03, Siebrand Mazeland (WMF) < smazel...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Dear all, > > As requested at the Wikimedia Hackathon in Mumbai last weekend by > Srikanth, and also in bug 32619[1], *Narayam* was just *enabled* on *Wikimedia > Commons*. I hope you find it useful. > Thank you!! :) It will be put to good use lot of Indic wiki users who are regular to commons. > During the hackathon we had a lot of help in adding more key mappings to > Narayam[2], and we are right now at the Red Hat offices in Pune working > together with their localisation team for Indic languages to verify and get > feedback for more Indic languages. The recent work may be deployed next > Monday (28/11), but it could also be delayed a week. The complete Wikimedia > Localisation team is travelling home this weekend, and we haven't reviewed > all the code yet, hence the possible delay. > Am particularly excited on the "*On screen keyboard*"[1] done by Abhijeet Pathak which will be of great help. Some UI changes / testing may be needed, but on-screen keyboard will be amazing especially for people who are new to the typing even phonetically. > Another *exciting feature* we are planning on deploying and enabling on > many Indic language projects to increase accessibility, and that we would > like to have your feedback[3] on is *WebFonts*[4]. Many languages do not > have proper fonts easily available to users. This may be because the > operating systems do not ship these fonts, the script has fonts but users > don't know from where they will get them from or how to install them in > their system. Another reason is because the user is reading the wiki from a > shared computer without these fonts. Sometimes it may be because the user > does not know how to configure the operating system for a language or the > user does not have enough permissions to do this. Because of all these > reasons, providing the content in certain languages is problematic. > WebFonts sends the fonts with the data and therefore we expect that > everybody can see the text correctly. > Webfonts is great thing in technology and its great that wikimedia wikis are geared to use it, thanks to the i18n team. I know a lot of font testing was done at hackathon, but before deploying webfonts, we must ensure that the selected fonts are usable / bug-free on all the languages. As for Tamil, until the Lohit-Tamil hinting issue is resolved / better free fonts emerge out, please do not deploy Webfonts for Tamil wiki projects since it affects readability to everyone and as decided and agreed there wont be any preferences. I would suggest all communities which plan to use Webfonts, do proper font-testing since its very important and iron out all the bugs before launch for a smooth experience. [1] http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2011/11/narayam-will-look-like-this.html -- Regards Srikanth.L
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