In Persian Wikipedia, people who want to use a different font (e.g. Vazir) that are free, they just load them through a gadget: For example https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%A9%DB%8C:Gadget-Vazir.css (See the full list of font gadgets https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/ویژه:ابزارها in fonts section)
If you're working to allow better rendering of rare characters, my suggestion would be to load the font only conditionally on pages that use the rare characters, for example using categories (you can now load a gadget if a category exists: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Gadgets#Options) or alternatively a js detecting the issue and loading the gadget (which might cause FOUC so not really recommended). In Persian Wikipedia, we wanted to load poems with a different look (Nastaliq) and the idea we came up with was to basically, if Template:Poem is used, then load a font gadget to show the poems differently. HTH Am So., 2. Nov. 2025 um 21:14 Uhr schrieb Brian Wolff <[email protected]>: > 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikitech-l.lists.wikimedia.org/ -- Amir (he/him)
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