Hi Bala and Srikanth,

Thank you for the informative report.

I appreciate your role in coordinating, communicating lot of tech issues on behalf of Tamil Wikipedia community and many other budding Indic language communities which don't have face and voice yet.

I hate that you are called "critics" when you are taking every effort to guide, bug test and fix the issues.

From

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-i18n/2011-December/000361.html

"In order to force them, "if you don't test this it may break horribly
for you when deployed" seems way more convincing than "no new goodies
for you"."

This attitude of i18n is not only very dangerous for the communities and languages but also very unprofessional. 

Ravi

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik.lak@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,

Pardon for a long mail, just unavoidable.

We have seen the WebFonts roll out[0] last night to most Indic wikis except Malayalam and Tamil. We in Tamil Community felt WebFonts extension is just not ready for us. We would like to share on why we in Tamil community didnt chose webfonts and also what could work better in future for Indic communities during technology adoption.