Hey all,
I wanted to give people an extra notice that we're updating the default
typography across all Wikimedia sites, for users of the Vector skin. This
was also mentioned in the last Tech News edition, and announced by Greg as
part of the deployment roadmap.
This will happen in the following order:
1. Test wikis and
mediawiki.org tomorrow. That's Thursday, March 27th.
2. Non-Wikipedia projects on Tuesday, April 11th.
3. All Wikipedias on Thursday April 3rd.
If people have questions, there is a summary of the changes and an
extensive FAQ at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_refresh. There
will also be a post at
blog.wikimedia.org tomorrow morning, and we have
other messages to go out on-wiki.
Wikitech-l subscribers: you may remember an extensive recent thread that
mostly debated the use of non-free fonts like Helvetica Neue and Georgia as
the primary fonts in the new font-family settings. We took this feedback to
heart. Thanks to patches/testing led by Ryan Kaldari and Vibha Bamba, we
released a new version a couple weeks ago, which puts a set of fine FOSS
fonts first (say that ten times fast). For the curious, the relevant patch
is gerrit 120978.
--
Steven Walling,
Product Manager
https://wikimediafoundation.org/