FYI:
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Mediawiki-i18n] beta testing mobile webfonts
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 13:03:45 -0800
From: Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari(a)wikimedia.org>
Reply-To: MediaWiki internationalisation
<mediawiki-i18n(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
To: mediawiki-i18n(a)lists.wikimedia.org, mobile-tech
<mobile-tech(a)wikimedia.org>
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