On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Greg Grossmeier <greg(a)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.
--
Steven Walling,
Product Manager
https://wikimediafoundation.org/