<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Aphaia,<div><br></div><div>If you look at the English letters (meaning English-only), you'll see that it's an increasing ask string.</div><div><br></div><div>We started with the currency most people would likely be familiar with (besides their own) and then selected others to fill in the string.</div><div><br></div><div>Someone's had to be the highest ask.</div><div><br></div><div>pb<br><div>
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<br><div><div>On Dec 12, 2010, at 5:37 AM, KIZU Naoko wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>I support to list many currencies in general, but not buy this exact phrase.<br>$20 is now equivarent 1600. Why do you recommend US donors $20 and<br>Japanese donors more than the double? That has been criticized "US<br>greed for Asians" in some Japanese net commuity ...<br><br>On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 2:23 AM, Philippe Beaudette<br><<a href="mailto:pbeaudette@wikimedia.org">pbeaudette@wikimedia.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">It's actually meant to suggest that we accept many currencies.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">However, we strongly encourage translators to replace that with an<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">appropriate amount for the locales they're dealing with. Just be sure to<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">let us know that you did it. :)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">pb<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Philippe Beaudette<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Head of Reader Relations<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">ofc: +1 415 839 6885 x6643<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">mobile: +1 918 200 WIKI (9454)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:pbeaudette@wikimedia.org">pbeaudette@wikimedia.org</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://donate.wikimedia.org">http://donate.wikimedia.org</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On Dec 10, 2010, at 4:14 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I'm sorry if this has been already discussed but I don't remember.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The appeals now read "a donation of $20, EURO 30, (J\(B4,000, or whatever they<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">can to keep Wikipedia free" (e.g.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/?diff=2234129&oldid=2234128">http://meta.wikimedia.org/?diff=2234129&oldid=2234128</a> ).<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Is this a way to encourage translators to localize currencies, or we<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">really want to stress that we accept donations in many currencies, or is<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">this meant only for the English text? Do we have stats on the effects of<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> different currency proposals?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Nemo<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Translators-l mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:Translators-l@lists.wikimedia.org">Translators-l@lists.wikimedia.org</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l">https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Translators-l mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:Translators-l@lists.wikimedia.org">Translators-l@lists.wikimedia.org</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l">https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br><br><br>-- <br>KIZU Naoko / $BLZDE>0;R(B<br>member of Wikimedians in Kansai / $B4X@>%&%#%-%a%G%#%"%f!<%62q(B <a href="http://kansai.wikimedia.jp">http://kansai.wikimedia.jp</a><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Translators-l mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Translators-l@lists.wikimedia.org">Translators-l@lists.wikimedia.org</a><br>https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>