Hey all, I wanted to give people an extra notice that we're updating the default typography across all Wikimedia sites, for users of the Vector skin. This was also mentioned in the last Tech News edition, and announced by Greg as part of the deployment roadmap.
This will happen in the following order: 1. Test wikis and mediawiki.org tomorrow. That's Thursday, March 27th. 2. Non-Wikipedia projects on Tuesday, April 11th. 3. All Wikipedias on Thursday April 3rd. If people have questions, there is a summary of the changes and an extensive FAQ at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_refresh. There will also be a post at blog.wikimedia.org tomorrow morning, and we have other messages to go out on-wiki. Wikitech-l subscribers: you may remember an extensive recent thread that mostly debated the use of non-free fonts like Helvetica Neue and Georgia as the primary fonts in the new font-family settings. We took this feedback to heart. Thanks to patches/testing led by Ryan Kaldari and Vibha Bamba, we released a new version a couple weeks ago, which puts a set of fine FOSS fonts first (say that ten times fast). For the curious, the relevant patch is gerrit 120978. -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/
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