Serving webfont via Toolforge by default

Hello everyone,

The Chinese Wikipedia is holding a discussion [1][2] about wiping out tofus when displaying rare Chinese characters. During the discussion, one option turned out to be serving a webfont covering all CJK planes, which was the practice on Chinese Wikipedia more than a decade ago before it was disabled for security reasons. Since the reasons are still valid and ULS is no longer accepting new font additions, so the only feasible way to achieve this is to serve the webfont via a Toolforge domain.

Due to potential impacts of this proposal, I'm writing to ask:

- Is it acceptable to serve a webfont (conditionally or not conditionally) via Toolforge by default, policy-wise?
- And is it acceptable in terms of performance (since Toolforge is not using Wikimedia's CDN)?

[1] https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%E4%BA%92%E5%8A%A9%E5%AE%A2%E6%A0%88/%E6%8A%80%E6%9C%AF#%E7%94%9F%E5%83%BB%E5%AD%97webfont
[2] https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%E4%BA%92%E5%8A%A9%E5%AE%A2%E6%A0%88/%E6%8A%80%E6%9C%AF#%E4%BB%8B%E7%BB%8D%EF%BC%9AWebFont-ZH%E6%9C%8D%E5%8A%A1%E5%8F%8A%E5%B0%8F%E5%B7%A5%E5%85%B7

Best regards,
diskdance

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