Hi! Toolforge is way less reliable than Wikimedia production wikis. Since 2019, I have been using TF for serving a stylesheet for my own custom dark mode and it occured many times that the connection to TF hanged, resulting in unacceptable loading times when trying to load Wikipedia page.
I'm not sure how the case is policy-wise, but I would recommend against loading content from Toolforge by default for all users, because it will happen that the service will break and be unavailable for even a few hours (eg., during some maintenance or outages). Regards, Marcin Msz2001 ________________________________ From: diskdance via Wikitech-l <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, November 2, 2025 12:54:08 PM To: Wikitech-l <[email protected]> Cc: diskdance <[email protected]> Subject: [Wikitech-l] Serving webfont via Toolforge by default Hello everyone, The Chinese Wikipedia is holding a discussion [1][2] about wiping out tofus when displaying rare Chinese characters. During the discussion, one option turned out to be serving a webfont covering all CJK planes, which was the practice on Chinese Wikipedia more than a decade ago before it was disabled for security reasons. Since the reasons are still valid and ULS is no longer accepting new font additions, so the only feasible way to achieve this is to serve the webfont via a Toolforge domain. Due to potential impacts of this proposal, I'm writing to ask: 1. Is it acceptable to serve a webfont (conditionally or not conditionally) via Toolforge by default, policy-wise? 2. And is it acceptable in terms of performance (since Toolforge is not using Wikimedia's CDN)? [1] https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%E4%BA%92%E5%8A%A9%E5%AE%A2%E6%A0%88/%E6%8A%80%E6%9C%AF#%E7%94%9F%E5%83%BB%E5%AD%97webfont [2] https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%E4%BA%92%E5%8A%A9%E5%AE%A2%E6%A0%88/%E6%8A%80%E6%9C%AF#%E4%BB%8B%E7%BB%8D%EF%BC%9AWebFont-ZH%E6%9C%8D%E5%8A%A1%E5%8F%8A%E5%B0%8F%E5%B7%A5%E5%85%B7 Best regards, diskdance
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