[Wikipedia-l] Day 2 Fund Drive Report

[Delirium]

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