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Conversion direction: correctness and consistency
I stumbled across this template at Swedish krona § Exchange rate as I was researching the Nobel Peace Prize. That award comes with about 9 million SEK, but how much is that "in real money", I wondered. Happily, there's a table with a few Forex site links, so I could click in the row for OANDA (my usual site) on the "USD" link and see how many dollars in a krona. Or really: how many dollars in 9 million Krona?
That's fine (and what I expected), but if I click on the links for other sites, like the XE USD link, I go to a page telling me how many krona in a dollar. In other words, backwards. The Yahoo and fxtop links are wired this way, too (in my view, backwards), and the Google similarly displays the currencies "backwards", but allows entering "9000000" in either field for an immediate conversion in whichever direction I want.
So:
- Shouldn't these links be going from the first parameter's currency to the other currencies?
- Shouldn't all of these links be built to convert in the same direction (even if it's the direction I call "backwards")?
Thanks. — JohnFromPinckney (talk) 04:10, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 23 August 2020: https for fxtop
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Please change all instances of "http://fxtop.com" in the template to "https://fxtop.com".
The fxtop pages, hideous in appearance though they are, appear to be served as https now, so our links should point that way. (Furthermore, in my current WP skin , there's a padlock icon next to all https links, and something smaller next to http links. As a result, the table doesn't line up nicely, because the fxtop links are each a little narrower.) Thanks,— JohnFromPinckney (talk) 04:19, 23 August 2020 (UTC) — JohnFromPinckney (talk) 04:19, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
- To editor JohnFromPinckney:
done. P.I. Ellsworth ed. 09:07, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
- Nice, thanks. — JohnFromPinckney (talk) 09:16, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 7 April 2021: Google Finance links
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The current format of Google Finance links from this template is https://www.google.com/finance?q=XXXYYY (where XXX is the first currency and YYY is the second. However, those links no longer work and don't redirect to anything useful, they just go straight to the Google Finance home page. The new Google Finance currency exchange link format is https://www.google.com/finance/quote/XXX-YYY. Since I can't edit this template, I would appreciate it if someone with the necessary permissions could.
5225C (talk • contributions) 09:27, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
- To editor 5225c: done, and thank you, good catch! P.I. Ellsworth ed. 12:56, 7 April 2021 (UTC)