Re: Serving webfont via Toolforge by default

I'd really hope an alternative could be found here. Either let a new font
into ULS or allow the webfont to be uploaded to the local wiki as a file on
a one-off basis.

I personally think loading anything by default from toolforge is really bad
policy. (To be clear, im just a rando, this is just my personal opinion)

On Sunday, 2 November 2025, diskdance via Wikitech-l <
[email protected]> wrote:

> 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:
>
>    1. Is it acceptable to serve a webfont (conditionally or not
>    conditionally) via Toolforge by default, policy-wise?
>    2. 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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