Kaixo!
On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 09:16:07PM +0200, Magnus Manske wrote:
but if the fonts are free as in GPL/GFDL, did anyone of the bickering crowd actually consider building TTFs from the files, upload these at wikipedia, and offering them for convenient download there, with proper credits?
It's just that it isn't the goal of wikipedia to be a font distributor (nor a software distributor, etc). Having a page on meta namespace referencing places where to get fonts for a given script is ok; but actually hosting the files on wikipedia I don't see the point (and wikimedia software isn't designed to be an optimal solution for file serving either)
We could also upload a free OGG player or the like. [[Wikipedia:Software resources]] or something.
Distributing software is an even worst idea imho.
What next, upload CDROM/DVD images of free operating systems?
All that can be easily downloaded from the right place, from places that aim to be repositories of free software/free fonts. Using wikipedia servers for that will be a waste of bandwidth and server resources, diverted from their goal of serving encyclopedic pages.
Having a list of links from where to get those files/programs may be a good idea; but actually hosting them is not.