User:Liangent/webfonts-cjk
cat-redir | wb-lang (dev) | webfonts-cjk
Target: Improve mw:Extension:WebFonts for Chinese (or CJK) wikis.
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Introduction
editChinese uses too many characters, and many are rarely used so it's not often installed on readers' systems. However including all of them in the font file makes it huge, so we may want to tailor the font file for every page based on characters used on that page.
As of writing, there isn't any "good" enough free font which includes all Chinese characters in Unicode and the "wiki" concept itself encourages collaborative content creation, so it would be nice to invite user to create a glyph for it when the system sees a character without existing data (remember we need free contents). en:WenQuanYi and glyphwiki.org already have some online glyph creators which can be useful for us.
Maybe we can donate glyphs created by wiki users to other projects, but we have to make sure our data meet their quality standards...