Kaixo!
On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 09:16:07PM +0200, Magnus Manske wrote:
but if the fonts are free as in GPL/GFDL, did anyone
of the bickering
crowd actually consider building TTFs from the files, upload these at
wikipedia, and offering them for convenient download there, with proper
credits?
It's just that it isn't the goal of wikipedia to be a font distributor
(nor a software distributor, etc).
Having a page on meta namespace referencing places where to get fonts
for a given script is ok; but actually hosting the files on wikipedia
I don't see the point (and wikimedia software isn't designed to be an
optimal solution for file serving either)
We could also upload a free OGG player or the like.
[[Wikipedia:Software
resources]] or something.
Distributing software is an even worst idea imho.
What next, upload CDROM/DVD images of free operating systems?
All that can be easily downloaded from the right place, from places
that aim to be repositories of free software/free fonts.
Using wikipedia servers for that will be a waste of bandwidth and server
resources, diverted from their goal of serving encyclopedic pages.
Having a list of links from where to get those files/programs may
be a good idea; but actually hosting them is not.
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