[Translators-l] Appeals currencies (again)

[KIZU Naoko]

Hi,

2010/12/13 Philippe Beaudette <pbeaudette at wikimedia.org>:
> Aphaia,
> If you look at the English letters (meaning English-only), you'll see that
> it's an increasing ask string.

Persoally I'm fully aware that intent; genuine rhetorical demand and
pitch increasing, not decreasing.

But please remind it was *NOT criticism of MY OWN", but from the
external. And as an inquiry from a (supposedly) Japanese national
living in Australia, not every Japanese are living only on Japanese
soil. And even in Japan, there are a plenty of chance to land English
landing page; I landed the English page quite often specially I had
been on the English-default projects (perhaps partly because my
browsers are non translated, US-en build). While such people would be
a linguistic minority, but I am not sure if it is so small in a number
as to be ignored.

> We started with the currency most people would likely be familiar with
> (besides their own) and then selected others to fill in the string.
> Someone's had to be the highest ask.

Point taken, but imho more than twice is ridiculously a bad idea,
specially it is criticizing under the racism suspicion.
> pb
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> On Dec 12, 2010, at 5:37 AM, KIZU Naoko wrote:
>
> I support to list many currencies in general, but not buy this exact phrase.
> $20 is now equivarent 1600. Why do you recommend US donors $20 and
> Japanese donors more than the double? That has been criticized "US
> greed for Asians" in some Japanese net commuity ...
>
> On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 2:23 AM, Philippe Beaudette
> <pbeaudette at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> It's actually meant to suggest that we accept many currencies.
>
> However, we strongly encourage translators to replace that with an
>
> appropriate amount for the locales they're dealing with.  Just be sure to
>
> let us know that you did it. :)
>
> pb
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> Philippe Beaudette
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> On Dec 10, 2010, at 4:14 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
>
> I'm sorry if this has been already discussed but I don't remember.
>
> The appeals now read "a donation of $20,  EURO 30, ¥4,000, or whatever they
>
> can to keep Wikipedia free" (e.g.
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/?diff=2234129&oldid=2234128 ).
>
> Is this a way to encourage translators to localize currencies, or we
>
> really want to stress that we accept donations in many currencies, or is
>
> this meant only for the English text? Do we have stats on the effects of
>
> different currency proposals?
>
> Nemo
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