Hi folks,
this is a quick note that Universal Language Selector's automatic font loading kicks in for any fonts required to render language name in lists of languages which are _not_ standard interlanguage links in the sidebar. So these are typically things like templates at the top or bottom of pages. Sometimes these can be found on the Main Pages of monolingual wikis, and often on pages in multilingual wikis.
The ULS team developed the autonym font, which only has a 50K payload, to reduce font loading for these cases: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/10/28/the-autonym-font-for-language-names/
However, the CSS class "autonym" needs to be explicitly added to relevant templates to enforce usage of the font. Community help is appreciated in this process. Here's an example of a change to use the autonym font for a list of language links on the English Wikipedia Main Page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Wikipedia_languages/core...
Changing language link templates to use the autonym font will make pages load faster, so your help is much appreciated.
All best, Erik
2013/11/8 Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org:
Hi folks,
this is a quick note that Universal Language Selector's automatic font loading kicks in for any fonts required to render language name in lists of languages which are _not_ standard interlanguage links in the sidebar. So these are typically things like templates at the top or bottom of pages. Sometimes these can be found on the Main Pages of monolingual wikis, and often on pages in multilingual wikis.
The ULS team developed the autonym font, which only has a 50K payload, to reduce font loading for these cases: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/10/28/the-autonym-font-for-language-names/
However, the CSS class "autonym" needs to be explicitly added to relevant templates to enforce usage of the font. Community help is appreciated in this process. Here's an example of a change to use the autonym font for a list of language links on the English Wikipedia Main Page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Wikipedia_languages/core...
Changing language link templates to use the autonym font will make pages load faster, so your help is much appreciated.
Hi,
Actually I've seen some pretty negative feedback on ro.wp regarding this font (it bothers some contributors) and some "fixes" have already been created. Are we the only with such a problem?
Strainu
All best, Erik
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Strainu, 08/11/2013 11:12:
Actually I've seen some pretty negative feedback on ro.wp regarding this font (it bothers some contributors) and some "fixes" have already been created. Are we the only with such a problem?
No (TL;DR: don't use Windows ;-) ). https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56346
Nemo
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