Hi and thanks!

Choosing from the counties, I would select largest countries of ex-USSR,
where we still have large part of Russian-speaking people - for top5 that
would be:
- Russia
- Ukraine
- Uzbekistan
- Belarus
- Kazakhstan

best regards,
Linar


2014-04-13 12:24 GMT+04:00 Tilman Bayer <[email protected]>:

> Hi Rubin,
>
> yes - Facebook offers targeting both per language and per location
> (i.e. per country; and in some countries also on a sub-country level).
> I have re-shared it targeted to Russian language users; for the
> geotargeting, which countries do you mean aside from Russia?
>
> (We usually find that a geotargeted post reaches more users than a
> language-targeted one, even when a country consists almost entirely of
> speakers of that language. One can also select both at the same time,
> but unfortunately it seems that FB interprets this as "AND" - i.e.
> showing the post only to users who are both located in that country
> and have that language selected. Therefore we normally post twice,
> once geotargeted and once language-targeted.)
>
> On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 11:23 PM, rubin.happy <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Hello to everybody!
> >
> > We started a large contest of article writing on Russian Wikipedia with
> > prizes and other bonuses from Wikimedia RU.
> >
> > I just wanted to ask, is it possible to share our post [1] in Facebook
> via
> > Wikipedia page but targeted only to some countries where most of Russian
> > Wikipedia's editors mostly come from?
> >
> > I've seen some conversation about geo-targetting in this list before,
> so, I
> > just want to know whether it's possible.
> >
> > Linar
> >
> > [1] -
> > https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaRU/posts/691557960882789?stream_ref=10
> >
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