I have not done extensive test of Kannada, Hindi and & other Indian languages Wikipedias on mobiles. But what I can say is that it will be beneficial to have webfonts for mobiles. I am ready to help in any way needed
Regards,
Pavanaja
From: mediawiki-i18n-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-i18n-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Dhaval S. Vyas Sent: 19 December 2013 15:50 To: MediaWiki internationalisation Cc: mobile-tech Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-i18n] beta testing mobile webfonts
Hi Ryan,
I am admin on Gujarati wiki and use mobile wiki as well, I would say it is a problem today not to have webfonts.
I am happy to be tester.
Regards, Dhaval User:Dsvyas
On 19 Dec 2013 09:26, "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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