Apparently it says $10 in Brazil? On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 3:29 AM Paulo Santos Perneta <[email protected]> wrote: >... > Looking by the sample I know in Brazil (last year fundraising campaign, in > August I believe) the Brazilian Portuguese Wikipedia readers often got > enraged to the point of vandalizing articles stating their disgust for a > campaign asking money to an impoverished country (even more saying 10$ was > the cost of a coffee there). Others "donated" money or attempted to donate > it thinking it was a kind of a fee for being allowed to read Wikipédia > (kind of a subscription). On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 10:28 AM Peter Southwood <[email protected]> wrote: > > I thought this specific message was targeting North Americans for whom $3 is > a realistic price. If the message is for worldwide use I would also find it > offensive in its US centric price claims. I am in Africa, where a cup of > coffee would normally be less than $3 US, but is enormously variable > depending on where you are, what coffee you drink, and who you buy it from. I > don't drink coffee myself, so not particularly expert on the topic. > Cheers, > Peter > > -----Original Message----- > From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of James Salsman > Sent: Friday, October 5, 2018 7:17 PM > To: Wikimedia Mailing List > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] when is the last time a one-line fundraising > banner was A/B tested > > Someone recently complained that referring to the equivalent of USD $3 > as the cost of a cup of coffee was incorrect and substantially > offensive in Brazil. And then a few weeks later there was a discussion > about how donations are so much smaller in the developing world. > > Coincidence? I don't think so. > > On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 10:11 AM Peter Southwood > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > It is a bit of a wall of text, but at first reading the message is less > > offensive than many previous versions. > > Cheers, > > Peter > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
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