Communicate font stack changes to communities
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Background
We'll need to let people know that this change is coming in advance and give time for feedback.

Proposed Plan (contents may settle during shipping)

Update is made to Wikipedia.org portal for testing
Jan's notes are moved to main namespace - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:JDrewniak_(WMF)/notes/System_font_stack
Write up a post letting folks know of the change - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CKoerner_(WMF)/Font_stack_update
- Send to wikitech-l, wikitech-ambassadors, and Tech News
- Direct folks to the talk page for centralized discussion (feedback, bugs, etc)
  - Triage feedback with bug reports where the change is causing problems
If things go well and when the team is ready to deploy, send a reminder to the change to the same venues as above.

Success criteria
Community feedback received and where appropriate bugs resolved followed by a successful deployment

Timeline
TBD

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		Status	Assigned	Task
		Resolved	Volker_E	T175877 Update sans-serif font stack on mobile web to use system typefaces
		Duplicate	None	T186762 Communicate font stack changes to communities

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CKoerner_WMF triaged this task as Low priority.Feb 7 2018, 10:54 PM

CKoerner_WMF created this task.

CKoerner_WMF added a project: Readers-Community-Engagement.

CKoerner_WMF moved this task from ToDo to Web on the Readers-Community-Engagement board.

Thought: should we provide a user script/gadget/CSS snippet that contributors could use to test this font stack change? Reading Jan's notes make me think this is pretty straightforward and could easily be induced in the communication plan. In addition to the Wikipedia.org portal, it would be great for folks to see it in their workflows and everyday experiences before we flip any big switches.

CKoerner_WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)Feb 8 2018, 8:16 PM

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ovasileva raised the priority of this task from Low to Normal.Feb 9 2018, 2:46 PM

ovasileva edited projects, added Readers-Web-Backlog (Tracking); removed Readers-Web-Backlog.