On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Bence Damokos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > About the amounts: should they be just converted to the local currency > (where available: I believe PayPal accepts 18 different currencies all in > all) or be adjusted to the local conditions. > For example, Couchsurfing uses a scale based on purchasing power parity and > HDI on their donation pages, where the original 25$ donation adjusted to > French conditions would be the equivalent of 21$, to Hungarian conditions > ~16$. [1] > An another obvious consideration is that the given numbers should sound > good, so with the above example's France: 20$ , Hungary: 15$, USA: 25$. > [1] - http://www.couchsurfing.com/verification.html?sliding_scale=1 > > I don't know how accurately would the Couchsurfing scale represent the > differences in default donations to WMF by country/currency; it might be > useful to know what are the commons amounts in a given group of donors (e.g. > those who give little, medium, large amount of money). > Best regards, > Bence Damokos >
I've always thought that you should try to localize the donation pages and amounts. So do whatever makes sense for your country. It can be a direct conversion, but it doesn't need to be. For example if we're talking about a poor country (or one that doesn't like to donate much), we'd want to use smaller default amounts. If we're talking about a rich country, we would use larger default amounts. I leave it up to you, the people who know best. :-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 --- Note: This e-mail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails sent to this address will probably get lost. _______________________________________________ Translators-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l
