Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector/Fonts for Chinese wikis

UniversalLanguageSelector Fonts for Chinese wikis

 * Public URL: TODO
 * Bugzilla report: Bug 31791
 * Announcement: Proposal announcement at the wikitech-l mailing list.

Name and contact information

 * Name: Aaron Xiao
 * Email: xiaoxiangquan@gmail.com
 * IRC or IM networks/handle(s): aaron_xiao
 * Location: Beijing, China
 * Typical working hours: 1:00am~10:00am (UTC)

Synopsis
Chinese 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.


 * Possible mentors: User:Liangent User:DChan_(WMF)

Deliverables
Please describe the details and the timeline of the work you plan to accomplish on the project you are most interested in (discuss these first with the mentor of the project):

About you
M.S. in Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing, China
 * Education completed or in progress:

I searched in the organizations list with keyword "i18n", as it is one of my working fields. I'm always trying to introduce great open source projects to Chinese, as well as other non-English users.
 * How did you hear about this program?

Before June(included), I must spend some time on my thesis and graduation affairs. And then I can work as full time in July, August and September. ( I know the event schedule. I'll finish the main features on time. And then continue working to push it forward to be released finally, even after the GSoC event, of course. )
 * Will you have any other time commitments, such as school work, another job, planned vacation, etc., during the duration of the program?

Only SoC.
 * We advise all candidates eligible to Google Summer of Code and FOSS Outreach Program for Women to apply for both programs. Are you planning to apply to both programs and, if so, with what organization(s)?

Past experience

 * Please describe your experience with any other FOSS projects as a user and as a contributor:


 * Please describe any relevant projects that you have worked on previously and what knowledge you gained from working on them (include links):


 * What project(s) are you interested in (these can be in the same or different organizations)?