Mark Williamson wrote:
And I know there are currencies other than USD. What I
meant is, are
there currencies other than USD, JPY, EUR, and CAN? If not, why?
Having CAN among the four seems a bit strange to me if not
Anglocentric - we have two for primarily English-speaking countries,
but none for example for Chinese-speaking countries (ie, Yuan
Renminbi, Singapore dollar, New Taiwanese Dollar, Malaysia dollar,
etc), given that zh.wikipedia is currently the fastest-growing on the
growth curve of all the larger Wikipedias (ie, it may be growing
slower than en and de currently are, but it is growing faster than
they were when they were at a similar period) and has 20k articles
(most of the other top Wikipedias are languages spoken primarily in
Euro countries)
If you took 10 seconds to google for "paypal currencies", you would find
that the six currencies Mav is listing for the Paypal account are
precisely the six currencies Paypal accepts payment in. If you're aware
of any easy-to-set-up system that accepts donations denominated in other
currencies, I'm sure it'd be welcomed.
As it is, it's perfectly possible to donate other currencies, so long as
the donator has a way of converting. Only either the sender or
receipient has to do the conversion, so between us accepting payment in
six currencies, and many people having the ability to convert their
money into one of those six, a large proportion of potential donators
are covered. For example, we don't accept Icelandic Krona, but most
Icelanders have credit cards, and those credit cards can make payments
in Euros or US dollars.
(Accepting CNY may be a bit more of an issue, because China strictly
controls the foreign-exchange market for its currency.)
-Mark