About the amounts: should they be just converted to the local currency (where available: I believe PayPal accepts 18 different currencies all in all) or be adjusted to the local conditions.

For example, Couchsurfing uses a scale based on purchasing power parity and HDI on their donation pages, where the original 25$ donation adjusted to French conditions would be the equivalent of 21$, to Hungarian conditions ~16$. [1]

An another obvious consideration is that the given numbers should sound good, so with the above example's France: 20$ , Hungary: 15$, USA: 25$.

[1] - http://www.couchsurfing.com/verification.html?sliding_scale=1


I don't know how accurately would the Couchsurfing scale represent the differences in default donations to WMF by country/currency; it might be useful to know what are the commons amounts in a given group of donors (e.g. those who give little, medium, large amount of money).

Best regards,
Bence Damokos

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Casey Brown <cbrown1023.ml@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Huji <huji.huji@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Casey, and I have a question for you:
>
> In the Special section, I see "left quote" and "right quote". I assume that
> the software that is using these messages laters, knows that a "left quote"
> appears first in LTR languages, but appears last RTL ones. If it doesn't,
> either it should be considered in the software, or the "left/right quote"
> pair should be changed to "starting quote" and "ending quote".
>

That's a good point, feel free to change it for the rtl languages to
make it a lot clearer. :-)

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Casey Brown
Cbrown1023

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