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Enabling WebFonts Extension

  • Voting on: Requesting of those with the ability to do so that they enable the WebFonts extension here on English Wiktionary.


  • Vote starts: 00:01, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
  • Vote ends: 23:59, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

Support

  1. Support It is not an ideal solution, and it has its share of problems, but I guess something is better than nothing at all. -- Liliana • 18:32, 11 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Support --WikiTiki89 18:37, 11 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Support Yair rand (talk) 18:51, 11 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Support. — Ungoliant (Falai) 19:20, 11 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Support Right ho, Jeeves. —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 02:35, 12 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose

  1. I didn't look into this, and am opposing based only on Ruakh's comment, below.​—msh210℠ (talk) 06:16, 3 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Oppose Dan Polansky (talk) 10:46, 6 January 2013 (UTC) What is the problem that the extension solves? How have the issues raised in the failed Wiktionary:Votes/2012-06/Enabling WebFonts Extension been addressed? Does it hurt that http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WebFonts says that "Development on this extension is discontinued. Please use Universal Language Selector instead and WebFonts is integrated in it."? Neither this page nor the talk page of this vote contains a summarized rationale for supporting this vote. --Dan Polansky (talk) 10:46, 6 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    The main problem during the previous vote was Bug 38122, which has indeed been fixed. The problem that this extension solves is that certain scripts don't get displayed on computers without the correct fonts installed. Before I started this vote, I asked on the extension's talk page whether the extension was still available, and the answer was yes. Universal Language Selector, which will eventually include WebFonts, is still in beta and not yet finished. --Yair rand (talk) 17:22, 6 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    Example of the problem: On some computers, အားလုံး has the Burmese content showing up as meaningless boxes, whereas the equivalent entry on the Burmese Wiktionary, which has WebFonts enabled, has all of the content visible. --Yair rand (talk) 20:14, 6 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Abstain

  1. Abstain - -sche (discuss) 07:41, 16 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Abstain. This extension supersedes/obviates the fonts we specify in our site CSS, so I think it would have been better to examine those fonts first and make sure that we're O.K. with such supersession/obviation, before voting on the extension itself. Note that our use-cases differ from those of other sites using this extension; for example, this extension uses different fonts for Modern Hebrew and Ancient Hebrew, which distinction doesn't make sense in a dictionary. (Actually, I'm not sure that distinction really makes sense anywhere, but especially here.) —RuakhTALK 21:46, 1 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    Wouldn't we be able to change things like that? --WikiTiki89 14:08, 2 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    Nope. Not without filing another bugzilla ticket. —RuakhTALK 21:32, 11 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Abstain Warddr (talk) 14:14, 6 January 2013 (UTC) I'm a bit worried about bugs like this https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32775. Also the fact that it is discontinued doesn't sound that positive. - Warddr (talk) 14:14, 6 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Decision

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