Good question, Charles - I would like to know the answer, too.
It has to be said that this particular post only reached an organic
reach of only 38 people (after two weeks). I think it's worth
experimenting further - e.g. it might be different when sharing a new
geolocated post, rather than re-sharing one as in this case - but if
the numbers are always that low, it's probably not worth it.
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Charles Gregory <wmau.lists(a)chuq.net> wrote:
Does anyone with prior experience know if city-level
(or
country/state-level) targetted posts are more likely to be seen by those in
the targetted area, as compared to a non-targetted post?
eg. a post may only show up for 200 out of 1200 fans; if targetted to a city
where 120 of those fans live, will it only appear for approx. 20 of them or
closer to all 120?
Charles (User:Chuq)
WMAU
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 7:28 AM, Jay Walsh <jwalsh(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Seems like a good idea to me.
On Mar 26, 2014 11:24 AM, "Tilman Bayer" <tbayer(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Creative Commons asked if we could help to promote this free culture
event they are holding tomorrow in San Francisco:
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/42332 .
It's not directly directly about Wikimedia-related topics, more about
free culture in general, but e.g. Kat Walsh already sent a notice about it
to the Wikimedia-SF list a while ago, and previous editions of this series
saw quite a bit of Wikimedia involvement. Jay and I discussed it and we
think it's OK to re-share the event page on Facebook with the Wikipedia
account if it's locally targeted (Facebook does offer city-level targeting
in the US). I'm going to do this now targeted with San Francisco, Oakland
and Berkeley, and also see it a bit as an experiment - eventually we could
offer to do city- or state-targeted posts to organizers of Wikipedia meetups
(at least in the US), in addition to the existing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Geonotice .
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