Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector/Fonts for Chinese wikis

Introduction
Including all Chinese characters makes a webfont file too large. We may want to tailor the font file for every page based on characters used on that page. Once finished, this feature can be applied to other languages facing the same problem, such as Japanese.

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.


 * Proposal: Click Here
 * Mentors: DChan,  Liangent
 * Repository: Coming soon

Milestones

 * < - - - We are here
 * May 19: Start coding.
 * Warm up with code and development tool set
 * Clarify what to do next
 * June 27: Mid-term evaluation
 * Aug 11: Pencil down
 * Aug 22: Final evaluation

May 11

 * Done
 * Re-announce the project on wikizh-l and Distribution list/Global message delivery/zh in Chinese. Discuss with the people there.
 * Reading code: jquery.webfonts, ext.uls.webfonts.js
 * To do
 * Finish designing the font-tailor. Be ready to start coding on May 19

May 4

 * Done
 * Knowledge preparation: Git, JS, jQuery. I use Hg and script languages like Python a lot, so it's easy to get started.
 * Study the tech talk about Unit testing.
 * To do
 * Read ULS docs and code
 * Build up development environment