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
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Casey Brown <cbrown1023.ml(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Huji
<huji.huji(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks Casey, and I have a question for you:
In the Special section, I see "left quote" and "right quote". I
assume
that
the software that is using these messages laters,
knows that a "left
quote"
appears first in LTR languages, but appears last
RTL ones. If it doesn't,
either it should be considered in the software, or the "left/right quote"
pair should be changed to "starting quote" and "ending quote".
That's a good point, feel free to change it for the rtl languages to
make it a lot clearer. :-)
--
Casey Brown
Cbrown1023
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