Introduction

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. It turned out that the #japanese 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 #japanese 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

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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

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11-20:

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

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Questions

How would you describe the #japanese community in a few sentences?
Which #japanese users are most recognized on Steem?
What Steem projects have been created by people from your community?
Which witnesses come from the #japanese community
Does the #japanese community stick together or is it divided into many groups?
What initiatives / principles / conventions have you developed?
What are the biggest problems of the #japanese community?
What is the most popular Japanese 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 (168)

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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答えをありがとう！

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

Previous posts from this series:

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

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 (~ $ 0.11) and probably with many votes from #polish community.
Of course, you can still add answers to previous posts!

The whole series will be summarized with an article in which it will be a comparison of all the language communities that participate in this initiative.