I seem to recall in the message displayed in Brazil it used to be $10 for a coffee. In Portugal, where we have very rooted habits of having a cup of coffee publicly, the cost generally is less than $1. In Brazil I seem to recall that habit is not that rooted (or is almost unused there). They seem to have replaced it this year by some pastry, which seems to makes more sense there.
More thoughts about the 2017 fundraising campaign in Brazil can be seen here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Seddon_(WMF)&diff...
Paulo
James Salsman jsalsman@gmail.com escreveu no dia sexta, 5/10/2018 à(s) 19:07:
Apparently it says $10 in Brazil?
On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 3:29 AM Paulo Santos Perneta paulosperneta@gmail.com wrote:
... Looking by the sample I know in Brazil (last year fundraising campaign,
in
August I believe) the Brazilian Portuguese Wikipedia readers often got enraged to the point of vandalizing articles stating their disgust for a campaign asking money to an impoverished country (even more saying 10$
was
the cost of a coffee there). Others "donated" money or attempted to
donate
it thinking it was a kind of a fee for being allowed to read Wikipédia (kind of a subscription).
On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 10:28 AM Peter Southwood peter.southwood@telkomsa.net wrote:
I thought this specific message was targeting North Americans for whom
$3 is a realistic price. If the message is for worldwide use I would also find it offensive in its US centric price claims. I am in Africa, where a cup of coffee would normally be less than $3 US, but is enormously variable depending on where you are, what coffee you drink, and who you buy it from. I don't drink coffee myself, so not particularly expert on the topic.
Cheers, Peter
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Someone recently complained that referring to the equivalent of USD $3 as the cost of a cup of coffee was incorrect and substantially offensive in Brazil. And then a few weeks later there was a discussion about how donations are so much smaller in the developing world.
Coincidence? I don't think so.
On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 10:11 AM Peter Southwood peter.southwood@telkomsa.net wrote:
It is a bit of a wall of text, but at first reading the message is
less offensive than many previous versions.
Cheers, Peter
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