# 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](/utopian-io/@jacekw.dev/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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#### 1-10:
![](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmSZv2D3THcgcNXAdma6ZVcMD2ZxodkABTu9cfsCUCkMTy/image.png)
#### 11-20:
![](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmbdeH3CsQJYHfQXRZYfqCE5G68eVkDHhZTj2mAFZYTeMs/image.png)

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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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#### 1-10:
![](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmR3Emnj2hDTDb8t4Ez7mphTmVBjc4VLhkoyaoEmB5WePZ/image.png)

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#### 11-20:
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### 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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#### 1-10:
![](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmQRLvY3FHkiRuGHnoRnXpW4KcqbfrWayDMKF8ueBh1FnY/image.png)

#### 11-20:
![](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmYsWB3pAzGAzJiJrb17nAQqy3dmet4QYKCSejd2Hn5CYB/image.png)


# Questions

1. How would you describe the #japanese community in a few sentences?
2. Which #japanese users are most recognized on Steem?
3. What Steem projects have been created by people from your community?
4. Which witnesses come from the #japanese community
5. Does the #japanese 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 #japanese community?
8. 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](/polish/@jacekw/przekroj-spolecznosci-polish-wrzesien-2018).

2: Which #polish users are most recognized on Steem?
- @gtg - top Steem witness, IT Wizard
- @noisy - creator of [SteemProjects](https://steemprojects.com/), [WISE](https://wise.vote), [witness](https://steemd.com/@wise-team)
- @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](https://wise.vote) by @noisy
- [SteemProjects](https://steemprojects.com/) by @noisy
- [SteemFounders](https://steemfounders.com/) by @santarius & @nicniezgrublem
- [Engrave](https://engrave.website/) by @nicniezgrublem
- [SteemWeb](https://steemweb.pl/) by @rafalski
- [SteemNova](https://steemnova.intinte.org/) by @mys & @fervi
- [Steeditor](https://steeditor.app/) by @jakipatryk
- [DGameShop](@dgameshop) & [DGameLand](https://dgameland.com/) by @fervi
- [glodniwiedzy.pl](https://glodniwiedzy.pl/) by @nicniezgrublem
- [gameeit](https://gameeit.com/)  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](/tematygodnia/@steemit-polska/tematy-tygodnia-edycja-urodzinowa-tematy). 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](/polish/@kurator-polski/tygodnik-kuratorski-28).
- #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](https://wise.vote/) - 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](/deutsch/@nieidealna.mama/polnische-nationalgerichte-1)!
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答えをありがとう！

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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!](/spanish/@jacekw/hello-spanish-community-we-are-polish-community-we-would-like-to-know-more-about-you)
2. [MeetCommunity #2: Hello #indonesia community!](/indonesia/@jacekw/hello-indonesia-community-we-are-polish-community-we-would-like-to-know-more-about-you)
3. [MeetCommunity #3: Hello #kr community!](/kr/@jacekw/meetcommunity-3-hello-kr-community-we-are-polish-community-we-would-like-to-know-more-about-you) - no answers yet :/
4. [MeetCommunity #4: Hello #deutsch community!](https://steemit.com/deutsch/@jacekw/meetcommunity-4-hello-deutsch-community-we-are-polish-community-we-would-like-to-know-more-about-you)
5. [MeetCommunity #5: Hello #cn community!](https://steemit.com/cn/@jacekw/meetcommunity-5-hello-cn-community-we-are-polish-community-we-would-like-to-know-more-about-you)  - no answers yet :/
6. [MeetCommunity #6: Hello #tr community!](https://steemit.com/tr/@jacekw/meetcommunity-6-hello-tr-community-we-are-polish-community-we-would-like-to-know-more-about-you)
7. [MeetCommunity #7: Hello #fr community!](https://steemit.com/fr/@jacekw/meetcommunity-7-hello-fr-community-we-are-polish-community-we-would-like-to-know-more-about-you)
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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 (~ $ 0.11) 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.