[Wikipedia-l] Day 2 Fund Drive Report

[Andrew Lih]

On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 18:50:28 -0700, Mark Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com> 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)

This is an issue of the hard realities of international banking, and
not of political correctness.

Also, the yuan/RMB of the PRC is not a fully convertible currency. 

-Andrew (User:Fuzheado)