Messaje de Usador:Universal Life/Rashi

I'd just like to point out a couple of issues:

1. As things currently stand, nobody will see Rashi script unless s/he has this particular font already available in his/her browser locally. As far as I know, no open-source (or otherwise free-license) Rashi font has been installed on any Wikimedia wiki so far. If you are aware of one, we can certainly put in a phabricator request to have it installed here.
2. I think it's not at all clear whether a Rashi font should be the default Hebrew-script font on this project. There's certainly an argument to be made for it, and I don't have to recite that for you. At the same time there are some arguments to made against it, too.
   • There are two categories of people who can read Rashi script: (1) JS speakers (especially those of a certain age) and (2) people with enough Torah scholarship to be familiar with it (from Torah and Talmud commentaries, etc.). I imagine that most people who would use the Hebr-script pages here fall into one of those categories, but probably not everyone does. And I'm particularly concerned about not making things harder on younger JS speakers, of the type you and Maor are trying to recruit, who may be fluent Hebrew speakers and even fluent JS speakers, but are used to seeing written JS in Latn script (AY, perhaps). Square Hebrew letters are more familiar to a wider group of people than Rashi letters are.
   • We'd have to deal with the fact that page and section titles should probably remain in square letters, not Rashi, as was the common practice even JS literature.

So I'd be happy to have Rashi script available here, and even have a version of Main Page in it. But we really need to think carefully about how such a font would be used here. StevenJ81 (discusión) • 23 Av 5777 • 15:53 15 Ago 2017 (UTC)