Universal Language Selector/Upcoming development plan

Universal Language Selector re-enablement: next steps.

February-March 2014

Date	Status/Progress
Week of January 20 2014	2014-01-20: Patch to detect tofu in content before applying default fonts. 2014-01-21: ULS disabled. 2014-01-22: First patch for re-enabling uploaded.[1]
Week of February 10 2014	Code review by Ori done and addressed Deploy [2] [3] [4] restores the enableWebfonts preference that displays a checkbox in the ULS Language Panel to toggle availability of webfonts new global variable $wgULSWebfontsEnabled can be used to configure if fonts will be loaded by default in the wiki. Default value is true, to load fonts. (set to false for Wikimedia wikis) removed the uls-enable preference that was introduced recently to disable ULS across Wikimedia wikis (on 2014-01-21) ext.uls.webfonts.js initialization was changed to load a minimal possible JS Library code for webfonts; remaining code is loaded when user makes additional requests Update: Universal_Language_Selector/WebFonts#Font_detection for related UI changes Analytics data collection: Get count of uls-enable preference values from 2014-01-21 to the day the above patch goes in production Analytics assessment: Work with analytics team on impact assessment metrics and output requirements review
Week of February 17 2014	Deployment is completed as part of 1.23wmf14 Analytics data collection
Week of February 24 2014	Analytics data collection: 2 week period from re-enablement of ULS completed for data collection for impact assessment Event-logging for the tofu detection feature [5]
Week of March 3 2014	Analytics data collection
Week of March 10 2014	Analytics data collection
Week of March 17 2014	Analytics data collection
Week of March 24 2014	Analytics data collection Analytics assessment