I've been checking the last donation campaigns, and since 2013 or so the amount asked in the banner seems to be the equivalent of $3 (I seem to recall that in initial campaigns it was higher).
At the current exchange rates, $3 is about 4 regular coffee cups in Portugal, and 3 coffee cups in Brazil. This year we (WMPT) suggested Thea to drop the coffee bit for Portugal, and she did. I am curious to see if it had any effect. Paulo Peter Southwood <[email protected]> escreveu no dia sexta, 5/10/2018 à(s) 21:03: > That would be appalling > Cheers, > Peter > > -----Original Message----- > From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of James Salsman > Sent: 05 October 2018 20:09 > To: Wikimedia Mailing List > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] when is the last time a one-line fundraising > banner was A/B tested > > 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> > > _______________________________________________ > 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> > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. > https://www.avg.com > > > _______________________________________________ > 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>
