I'd really hope an alternative could be found here. Either let a new font into ULS or allow the webfont to be uploaded to the local wiki as a file on a one-off basis.
I personally think loading anything by default from toolforge is really bad policy. (To be clear, im just a rando, this is just my personal opinion) On Sunday, 2 November 2025, diskdance via Wikitech-l < [email protected]> wrote: > 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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