On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Bence Damokos bdamokos@gmail.com 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. :-)