On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Greg Grossmeier <greg@wikimedia.org> wrote:
* As a part of the MediaWiki rollout the Typography Refresh beta feature
  will move from VectorBeta extension/Beta Feature to the Vector skin in
  MediaWiki core. This effectively updates the default skin for all
  users with improved readability.
** See the summary of changes:
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_refresh#Summary_of_changes>
** This will roll out with the 1.23wmf20 branch mentioned above, which
   means it will gradually roll out to all wikis following the normal
   progression (testwikis & mediawiki.org on Thursday -> non-wikipedias
   (eg Commons etc) on Tuesday -> All wikis following Thursday).

So folks know, other than publishing on Wikitech Deployments page, in Tech News, and these mailing lists, our communication plans include the following:

1. A MassMessage before the fact to Village Pumps, separate from Tech News and pointing to the translated FAQ
2. An article in the English Wikipedia Signpost
3. A short blog post on blog.wikimedia.org

If there are other things you think we should be doing, please speak up. The overkill message of last resort is to use a CentralNotice banner, though that seems a little silly to me just to update fonts. 

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Steven Walling,
Product Manager