Brion Vibber wrote:
It might be helpful for some language wikis to link in a free font this way, when standard fonts supporting their script are often unavailable. Right now on such sites there tends to be a little English link at the top such as 'font help' leading to a page like this telling you how to download and install a font: http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project:Font_help
Even more helpful: MediaWiki could determine if a page uses a rare character upon save and link to appropriate fonts.