I've been checking the last donation campaigns, and since 2013 or so the amount asked in the banner seems to be the equivalent of $3 (I seem to recall that in initial campaigns it was higher).
At the current exchange rates, $3 is about 4 regular coffee cups in Portugal, and 3 coffee cups in Brazil.
This year we (WMPT) suggested Thea to drop the coffee bit for Portugal, and she did. I am curious to see if it had any effect.
Paulo
Peter Southwood peter.southwood@telkomsa.net escreveu no dia sexta, 5/10/2018 à(s) 21:03:
That would be appalling Cheers, Peter
-----Original Message----- From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of James Salsman Sent: 05 October 2018 20:09 To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] when is the last time a one-line fundraising banner was A/B tested
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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