Introduction
Some time ago I wanted to find out what are the non-English language communities on Steem. And I created this post: Analysis of non-English communities on Steem. It turned out that the #deutsch community is one of the largest non-English community on Steem (in terms of number of posts added)! I thought that it's time to get to know each other better :) Especially that this year SteemFest is taking place in Poland, so maybe some people would like to ask questions to Polish people. This post will be entirely written in English so that both sides can understand it :)
This article will be divided into two parts:
- the first with our questions to #deutsch community
- the second with our answers to these questions
Before we get to the main part, let's look at some statistics (from 01.01.2018 to 31.08.2018).
Posts
| . | Tag | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | spanish | 336734 |
| 2 | indonesia | 330718 |
| 3 | kr | 290668 |
| 4 | aceh | 277963 |
| 5 | cervantes | 178478 |
| 6 | #deutsch | 87641 |
| 7 | cn | 86387 |
| 8 | castellano | 73389 |
| 9 | venezuela | 68159 |
| 10 | tr | 65606 |
| 11 | polish | 37163 |
| 12 | fr | 24096 |
| 13 | japanese | 23914 |
| 14 | myanmar | 23003 |
| 15 | pt | 21500 |
| 16 | ru | 20898 |
| 17 | thai | 19599 |
| 18 | ua | 17512 |
| 19 | morocco | 9849 |
| 20 | steemit-austria | 8494 |
Rewards
| . | Tag | Rewards (STEEM) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | kr | 447382 |
| 2 | spanish | 224177 |
| 3 | cn | 196510 |
| 4 | cervantes | 132190 |
| 5 | #deutsch | 115402 |
| 6 | indonesia | 105563 |
| 7 | tr | 85591 |
| 8 | aceh | 50145 |
| 9 | castellano | 49239 |
| 10 | fr | 48192 |
| 11 | japanese | 44782 |
| 12 | pt | 31832 |
| 13 | polish | 28646 |
| 14 | venezuela | 25083 |
| 15 | myanmar | 23503 |
| 16 | ru | 20005 |
| 17 | steemit-austria | 18475 |
| 18 | thai | 16231 |
| 19 | ua | 16192 |
| 20 | mexico | 12699 |
Authors
| . | Tag | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | spanish | 24864 |
| 2 | indonesia | 21528 |
| 3 | aceh | 20639 |
| 4 | cervantes | 15219 |
| 5 | kr | 14976 |
| 6 | venezuela | 11786 |
| 7 | castellano | 7755 |
| 8 | cn | 5944 |
| 9 | #deutsch | 4856 |
| 10 | tr | 3827 |
| 11 | polish | 2751 |
| 12 | japanese | 2283 |
| 13 | mexico | 1693 |
| 14 | fr | 1584 |
| 15 | myanmar | 1549 |
| 16 | thai | 1186 |
| 17 | ru | 1157 |
| 18 | pt | 913 |
| 19 | russian | 740 |
| 20 | arab | 699 |
Questions
- How would you describe the #deutsch community in a few sentences?
- Which #deutsch users are most recognized on Steem?
- What Steem projects have been created by people from your community?
- Which witnesses come from the #deutsch community
- Does the #deutsch community stick together or is it divided into many groups?
- What initiatives / principles / conventions have you developed?
- What are the biggest problems of the #deutsch community?
- What is the most popular German dish? :)
Extra questions:
a. Is the #deutsch tag mainly used by the German community or by all German-speaking countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland)?
All answers will be appreciated, even if you only know the answer to one or a few questions! :)
Our answers
1: How would you describe the #polish community in a few sentences?
The #polish community may not be too big, but it is well organized. Our main channel of communication is https://steem.chat/channel/polish. Every month we have statistics that present the current state of the community: Przekrój społeczności #polish - Wrzesień 2018.
2: Which #polish users are most recognized on Steem?
- @gtg - top Steem witness, IT Wizard
- @noisy - creator of SteemProjects, WISE, witness
- @the.foodini - wants to open the world's first STEEMtruck
- @highonthehog - fantastic blogger, travels around the world
3: What Steem projects have been created by people from your community?
- SteemProjects by @noisy
- WISE by @noisy
- SteemFounders by @santarius & @nicniezgrublem
- Engrave by @nicniezgrublem
- SteemWeb by @rafalski
- SteemNova by @mys & @fervi
- Steeditor by @jakipatryk
- DGameShop & DGameLand by @fervi
- glodniwiedzy.pl by @nicniezgrublem
- gameeit by @rolsonpatison & @barbarossastudio & @nervi
4: Which witnesses come from the #polish community
- @gtg(1)
- @wise-team(48)
- @jamzed (166)
5: Does the #polish community stick together or is it divided into many groups?
Despite the fact that we often argue, create different subgroups and have some dramas, as a community we rather stick together.
6: What principles / conventions / initiative have you developed?
- We have a pretty well-organized system of tags with the prefix
pl-, thanks to which Polish-language posts do not reach English-speaking recipients (it would happen if the tag is a word in both languages). The tree of tags can be seen here: https://steemweb.pl/categories. - Each week we organize a contest in which we write posts on one of the 3 topics (which were drawn on Wikipedia): TemaTYgodnia. The initiative has been running for 49 weeks now.
- A summary of the best articles of the week is posted by a dozen or so editors in the Tygodnik Kuratorski.
- #pl-publikacje - an initiative of writing articles promoting Steem to various newspapers
We also have many curation initiatives:
- @diosbot - bot that upvotes good articles
- WISE - system that delegates vote (not SP!) of one user to other users (experts)
- #perpetuummobile - curation system to support authors writing in some popular #polish tags
7: What are the biggest problems of the #polish community?
- decrease of activity in recent months
- there are smaller and larger dramas ;)
- people are discouraged by lower and lower rewards
8: Pierogi!
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Vielen Dank für die Antworten und ich ermutige Sie, mir weitere Fragen zu stellen!
Zachęcam do aktywnego udziału w dyskusji, zadawania pytań i udzielania odpowiedzi!
Previous posts from this series:
- MeetCommunity #1: Hello #spanish community! We are #polish community. We would like to know more about you!
- MeetCommunity #2: Hello #indonesia community! We are #polish community. We would like to know more about you!
- MeetCommunity #3: Hello #kr community! We are #polish community. We would like to know more about you! - unfortunately no answers yet :/
Yeahh :). Didn't expect this post to come so soon :).
How would you describe the #deutsch community in a few sentences?
I would say helpful if I had to choose one word. There are several weekly posts to engage in for the community, e.g. one by @nissla and @double-u. There are some local meet-ups from time to time and a discord server. Also several curation trails/camps. I engage in them rarely but I can see more often than not helpfulness by individuals. I do like to read in #deutsch from time to time.
Which #deutsch users are most recognized on Steem?
Oh that's too hard to say for me, there are too many of them and with some I am not familiar. @holger80 @theaustrianguy @limesoda @steemchiller @maxpatternman are probably among them.
What Steem projects have been created by people from your community?
steemworld and steemarity are among them, probably many others, I don't know if one should count the boot-camp and stuff among those too; 1UP with @flauwy you could count among those probably too.
Which witnesses come from the #deutsch community
several, again I only know a few @holger80 and @sempervideo (though maybe inactive recently) among them
Does the #deutsch community stick together or is it divided into many groups?
I mean there are the tags steemit-deutsch and steemit-austria but nearly everyone uses #deutsch I believe; so in that regard not; people are divided on political lines and maybe on steemit enthusiast vs. critic but I think that's normal somewhat and in that way there also is no need to stick together.
What initiatives / principles / conventions have you developed?
see 1. I don't really know of principles for the community as a whole, some groups or individuals may have some to welcome newbies or recommendations on how to publish; an underlying (un-named) principle is maybe: agree to disagree.
What are the biggest problems of the #deutsch community?
I think at the time it is probably HF20 like for everyone though it probably hit Venezuelans the hardest :(. some divisions on what is allowed to say on political lines I should add probably. Though I described the community as helpful sometimes rudeness or flagging on newbies without explanation can happen (usually see last sentence or because of copy+paste).
What is the most popular German dish? :)
There is no such thing! There are only regional most popular dishes. On the coast fish, e.g. Matjesbrötchen. Towards the large mountains in the South probably something with Knödeln, Rotkohl/Grünkohl/Sauerkraut + meat (pork, beef or venison), in the middle maybe Rostbratwurst+Sauerkraut or Eisbein, in the Mark Brandenburg maybe Kartoffeln mit Quark und Leinöl and Schmalzbrot with Spreewaldgurke, in Schwaben Spätzle, ...
Beer has similar regionals differences ;-) (e.g. Pils, Kölsch, Weißbier). What is most popular as a dish in Austria I can't tell. Maybe they are more sweetness and dessert oriented :D.
It honours me that you mentioned me - However there are far more "famous" people than me, especially some witnesses amongst the Top100:
@pharesim
@therealwolf (founder of @smartsteem)
@reggaemuffin (founder of @minnowbooster)
@felixxx
We also have some "non-witness" users that have been on the chain for a long period of time and by far more known:
@redpalestino
@twinner
@jaki01
@shaka
@pollux.one (@steembay founder)
@uwelang
@jedigeiss (@utopian-io member, popular for his weekly talkshow)
There are also many german users that are not active in the german community but also well known - like the guys and girls from @appics for example.
I definitely missed some names here, those were the one that came to my mind first :)
@point 8: Wiener Schnitzel is the most famous dish of course :)
Most of those names I do know (some I follow) but they didn't come to my mind immediately. So I do feel I did everything right because I found someone who could mention a lot more of them than me :D.
"Wiener Schnitzel is the most famous dish of course :)"
haha, of course. how could I not know that at that moment :D.
@andyjaypowell, @double-u
guck mal :)
Schöne Grüße für ganze Deutsche Steemit-Gemeinschaft 🇩🇪🇵🇱
Grüße aus Polen, Ich werde wieder zu dir kommen.. Pole und Deutsch - zwei Neffen! :))
In fact we have a lot of polish students right now at globalschool placed in vienna :) And today is a meetup, maybe some of them join
Hallo @jacekw, herzlich willkommen auf Steemit.
Wenn Du Fragen zu Steemit hast, oder Dich mit anderen „Steemians“ austauschen magst, schau einfach mal auf unserem Discord-Chat unter https://discord.gg/g6ktN45 vorbei. Mehr Informationen über den deutschsprachigen Discord-Chat findest Du in diesem Beitrag.
Wenn Du auf Deutsch schreibst, verwende immer #deutsch als einen der 5 Hashtags, um Deine Reichweite zu erhöhen.
Unter dem folgenden Link findest Du einige Anleitungen, die Dir den Einstieg in das Steem-Universum deutlich erleichtern werden: Deutschsprachige Tutorials für Steemit-Neulinge: Ein Überblick
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