Introduction

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By my mistake, I addressed this post to the #fr community instead of #ita at the beginning. Sorry for the confusion.

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Some time ago I wanted to find out what are the non-English language communities on Steem. And I created the post Analysis of non-English communities on Steem. Recently I made an update. It turned out that the #ita community is one of the largest non-English community on Steem. I thought that it's time to get to know each other better :)

This article will be divided into two parts:

• the first with our questions to #ita 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 31.10.2018).

Posts

.	Tag	Posts
1	spanish	376988
2	indonesia	349542
3	kr	329146
4	aceh	287072
5	cervantes	200904
6	deutsch	102436
7	cn	96038
8	castellano	81456
9	venezuela	75407
10	tr	70699
11	polish	42829
12	japanese	27865
13	fr	27411
14	#ita	25568
15	ru	25378
16	pt	25374
17	myanmar	25263
18	thai	21737
19	ua	20269
20	morocco	10551
21	steemit-austria	10177
22	pilipinas	9150
23	arab	8490
24	mexico	6926
25	rusteemteam	6203
26	cesky	5643
27	russian	3047
28	hindi	2855
29	br	2377
30	arabic	1873

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Author rewards

.	Tag	Author rewards
1	kr	551369
2	spanish	280600
3	cn	233027
4	cervantes	168769
5	deutsch	142705
6	indonesia	131283
7	tr	106531
8	#ita	88228
9	castellano	62107
10	japanese	60855
11	fr	58440
12	aceh	56124
13	pt	38845
14	polish	36453
15	venezuela	32841
16	myanmar	26748
17	ru	25741
18	steemit-austria	23106
19	ua	22217
20	thai	19768
21	mexico	14234
22	morocco	12438
23	arab	10099
24	br	9451
25	cesky	6230
26	pilipinas	4978
27	rusteemteam	3279
28	hindi	2614
29	arabic	1458

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Authors

.	Tag	Authors
1	spanish	66605
2	indonesia	50213
3	aceh	47108
4	cervantes	42175
5	kr	33829
6	venezuela	23967
7	castellano	20165
8	deutsch	12656
9	cn	11754
10	tr	8837
11	polish	6811
12	japanese	4327
13	fr	3999
14	myanmar	3631
15	#ita	3401
16	ru	2806
17	pt	2731
18	thai	2727
19	mexico	2683
20	steemit-austria	1398
21	arab	1378
22	morocco	1348
23	ua	1279
24	pilipinas	1160
25	russian	969
26	hindi	954
27	rusteemteam	606
28	cesky	560
29	arabic	540
30	br	450

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Questions

1. How would you describe the #ita community in a few sentences?
2. Which #ita users are most recognized on Steem?
3. What Steem projects have been created by people from your community?
4. Which witnesses come from the #ita community
5. Does the #ita community stick together or is it divided into many groups?
6. What initiatives / principles / conventions have you developed?
7. What are the biggest problems of the #ita community?
8. What is the most popular Italian dish? :)

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?

• WISE by @noisy
• SteemProjects 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 (33)
• @jamzed (172)
• @ignis-witness (257)

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 53 weeks (one year!) 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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Grazie per tutte le risposte!

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Zachęcam do aktywnego udziału w dyskusji, zadawania pytań i udzielania odpowiedzi!

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Previous posts from this series:

1. MeetCommunity #1: Hello #spanish community!
2. MeetCommunity #2: Hello #indonesia community!
3. MeetCommunity #3: Hello #kr community! - no answers yet :/
4. MeetCommunity #4: Hello #deutsch community!
5. MeetCommunity #5: Hello #cn community! - no answers yet :/
6. MeetCommunity #6: Hello #tr community!
7. MeetCommunity #7: Hello #fr community!
8. MeetCommunity #8: Hello #japanese community! - no answers yet :/
9. MeetCommunity #9: Hello #myanmar community!

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As in some posts there was a problem with answers, in order to encourage to answer, each answer will be rewarded with my 100% vote (~ $ 0.19) and probably with many votes from #polish community.
Of course, you can still add answers to previous posts!

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The whole series will be summarized with an article comparing all the language communities that participate in this initiative.