Yes, the email was mostly intended for the language team, but anyone is welcome to add their thoughts. Everything has been deployed at this point and it is only a question of changing a config variable. I have no specific timeline for it (since it's just a side project), but I would love to start beta testing it before the end of the year.

Ryan Kaldari

On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Arthur Richards <arichards@wikimedia.org> wrote:

I suspect this is something the language team will best be able to answer.

Beyond this, do you need any other support in order to get webfonts out to one of these wikis? And out of curiosity, what is your timeline for this?

On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Per conversations with Amir, Santhosh, Siebrand, and Jon, I would like to beta test mobile webfonts on 1 wiki and then possibly add more wikis later if the beta test does not cause any adverse effects. To this end, I have identified seven candidate wikis that I would like your help to narrow down further. These seven wikis meet the following criteria:

1. The language of the wiki would benefit from loading a webfont by default
2. The default font would be less than 50K in size

3. The wiki has at least 50 active users (i.e. a community)

Language	Code	Articles	Users	Active Users	Font Size
Punjabi	pa	8,069	6,818	61	12.6K
Gujarati	gu	24,623	17,696	59	28K
Marathi	mr	39,621	39,114	135	36.4K
Nepali	ne	24,944	14,379	73	36.5K
Hindi	hi	109,045	101,837	274	37.3K
Oriya	or	4,535	5,937	76	47.8K
Kannada	kn	14,384	17,455	177	48K

The main variables that I don't know are:
1. How bad is the experience on each of these wikis without webfonts?

2. Do we already have a working relationship with the communities on any of these wikis?

If you guys could help me narrow down this list to one or two choices, it would be greatly appreciated!

Ryan Kaldari

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