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Investigate and update webfonts where possible
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With T135465 and T135464, we are reducing footprint of webfonts as most of languages are already supported by modern OSs. Investigate and update (or remove) webfonts accordingly.

Webfonts were introduced for Wikimedia projects in 2011 to solve problems for some scripts where fonts were not available for most commonly used devices/operating systems, or the fonts were not recent enough to support the script fully.
Read more about Webfonts and their use on Wikimedia projects.

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Remove non-default Saab font for Punjabimediawiki/extensions/UniversalLanguageSelectormaster+0 -14
Remove non-default Gubby font for Kannada and Tulumediawiki/extensions/UniversalLanguageSelectormaster+0 -18
Remove madan fonts for nemediawiki/extensions/UniversalLanguageSelectormaster+0 -32
Customize query in gerrit

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KartikMistry created this task.Nov 14 2017, 4:09 AM
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gerritbot subscribed.Nov 14 2017, 4:11 AM

Change 390974 had a related patch set uploaded (by KartikMistry; owner: Santhosh):
[mediawiki/extensions/UniversalLanguageSelector@master] Remove non-default Gubby font for Kannada and Tulu

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/390974

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Nov 14 2017, 4:11 AM
Arrbee moved this task from Backlog to In Progress on the Language-2017-Oct-Dec board.Nov 14 2017, 7:03 AM
gerritbot added a comment.Nov 14 2017, 7:25 AM

Change 391164 had a related patch set uploaded (by KartikMistry; owner: KartikMistry):
[mediawiki/extensions/UniversalLanguageSelector@master] Remove madan fonts for ne

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/391164

gerritbot added a comment.Nov 14 2017, 1:16 PM

Change 391164 abandoned by KartikMistry:
Remove madan fonts for ne

Reason:
Already has patch :)

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/391164

gerritbot added a comment.Nov 14 2017, 2:47 PM

Change 390974 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/UniversalLanguageSelector@master] Remove non-default Gubby font for Kannada and Tulu

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/390974

ReleaseTaggerBot added a project: MW-1.31-release-notes (WMF-deploy-2017-11-14 (1.31.0-wmf.8)).Nov 14 2017, 3:00 PM
Liuxinyu970226 subscribed.Nov 16 2017, 3:55 AM
Amire80 removed a project: ULS-CompactLinks.Nov 22 2017, 12:57 PM

Is this task supposed to have the Compact Language Links tag?

KartikMistry added a comment.Nov 22 2017, 1:00 PM
In T180422#3781103, @Amire80 wrote:

Is this task supposed to have the Compact Language Links tag?

No. It was mistake.

• Elitre subscribed.Dec 1 2017, 8:29 AM
Nikerabbit removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Dec 1 2017, 5:45 PM

Is there a list what fonts are still planned to be removed?

KartikMistry added a comment.Dec 2 2017, 11:02 AM
In T180422#3803481, @Nikerabbit wrote:

Is there a list what fonts are still planned to be removed?

Yes. I'm making one.

• santhosh added a comment.Dec 4 2017, 5:30 AM

The list of fonts which are default for one or more languages is given as a table in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector/WebFonts

• santhosh added a comment.Dec 4 2017, 5:34 AM

You may also take a look at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T55015 and close the tickets for adding new fonts.

gerritbot added a comment.Dec 5 2017, 6:00 AM

Change 395179 had a related patch set uploaded (by KartikMistry; owner: KartikMistry):
[mediawiki/extensions/UniversalLanguageSelector@master] Remove non-default Saab font for Punjabi

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/395179

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Dec 5 2017, 6:00 AM
gerritbot added a comment.Dec 5 2017, 6:35 AM

Change 395179 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/UniversalLanguageSelector@master] Remove non-default Saab font for Punjabi

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/395179

ReleaseTaggerBot edited projects, added MW-1.31-release-notes (WMF-deploy-2017-12-05 (1.31.0-wmf.11)); removed MW-1.31-release-notes (WMF-deploy-2017-11-14 (1.31.0-wmf.8)).Dec 5 2017, 7:00 AM
Arrbee updated the task description. (Show Details)Dec 5 2017, 6:27 PM
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Liuxinyu970226 added a project: User-notice.Dec 9 2017, 10:25 AM
Liuxinyu970226 moved this task from To Triage to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Johan moved this task from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.Dec 14 2017, 10:54 AM
KartikMistry closed this task as Resolved.Dec 18 2017, 7:11 AM

First round of removal is done as of now. We will review other fonts and based on feedback, update will happen when needed.

KartikMistry moved this task from In Progress to Done on the Language-2017-Oct-Dec board.Dec 18 2017, 7:11 AM
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