Special Edition: Major Updates & Project Curie Month #1 Roundup (12 August - 11 September 2016)
One Month of Project Curie
This will be special update from Project Curie. One month ago, Project Curie began with humble beginnings. It has been an exhilarating experience for the team and we are delighted to share our progress with the Steemit community. To know more about Project Curie, do check out our initial announcement.
Project Curie wishes to thank @pharesim, @val, @silversteem and @clayop along with @nextgencrypto and @berniesanders for helping us reward more deserving posts
When a group of Steemit writers got together to form Project Curie, we thought that if we pooled our own votes on some posts, we could help reward some emerging and undiscovered authors who were posting great original material.
$5 later, it was clear our combined votes wouldn’t make a huge difference.
Fortunately, we were able to form a partnership with @nextgencrypto who was generous enough to donate some voting power to help reward deserving posters who were not yet established. @berniesanders then joined to help. With their support, Project Curie became a reality.
Today, we announce that @val, @pharesim, @silversteem and @clayop also have donated additional voting power to help Project Curie reach a greater number of original content posts from undiscovered and deserving authors. Please join us in thanking them. And please do not send your posts directly to any of these individuals; Project Curie is curating the posts and you are welcome to submit any good ones you find to the #curie channel on Steemit.chat.
Proyecto Cervantes
Project Curie is excited to announce a new branch of curation created to support Spanish authors on Steemit. The branch is called “Proyecto Cervantes” and it’s main curators are @gargon and @pgarcgo. The goal is to find and reward Spanish or bilingual (Spanish and English) posts on Steemit in order to foster a more diverse community. @gargon and @pgarcgo will be creating a compilation post for every 10 posts that they curate in order to provide transparency as to which posts are being rewarded. The hope is also to provide the original authors more exposure. You can find their first compilation posts here and here. Two members of Project Curie are Spanish speakers ( @anwenbaumeister and @the-alien), and they provide a second line of curation and review for these posts. So, if you are a Spanish speaker, we encourage you to begin writing bilingual posts in order to create a bridge between the two languages and communities!
Statistics from Month #1
Total posts curated: 2055
Unique authors rewarded: 763
Total rewards generated for authors: SBD 158,151
Mean reward generated per post: SBD 77
Median reward generated per post: SBD 40
Since we began tracking on 18th August, we have consistently voted on an average of over 75 posts per day. The trajectory is clearly heading up, and in the last week we have been averaging nearly 100 posts.
Authors
The Top 10 Authors by number of posts curated were -
- @kimal73
- @herverisson
- @cristi
- @lukeofkondor
- @papa-pepper
- @cryptos
- @mariandavp
- @stephmckenzie
- @eveningstar92
- @prufarchy
Top Authors by payouts includes @alexbeyman, @kaylinart, @brianphobos, @jamielefay, @omfedor, @stephmckenzie, @ionescur, @aboundlessworld and @anotherjoe. Many of those names are pretty familiar today, but less than a month ago, they were new authors struggling for exposure.
Tags/Topics
The most used tag was "life", but that pretty much includes everything!
The most popular topics were "art" (549) and "photography" (418). "Story" and "writing" were pretty close, tagged on around 370 posts each, though we suspect these two tags are often repeated. "Travel" and "science" also make an appearance. Looking forward, we intend to focus more on original science and technology related posts, and other unique / niche topics.
#curie
Following our announcement on September 2nd, the #curie channel has been a remarkable success. Currently we have 218 users in the room, 44 of whom have curated content from other authors. We have upvoted 105 posts submitted in #curie, and paid out SBD 525 to curators.
Top curators from #curie were -
Join us on #curie at Steemit.chat and keep the submissions coming!
Thanks
Last, but not least, we wish to thank -
@knozaki2015, @shaka, @razvanelulmarin, @greenwayoflife, @jasonstaggers for their generous donations.
@royaltiffany for moderating #curie and creating the noble TheButler bot. :)
@firepower for setting up the #curie room.
And of course, everyone voting on and commenting on posts we curate!
Onward to Month #2!
We are working to increase our reach and rewards for authors, courtesy of extended whale support. We are also setting up @curie as a universal voter for all posts we curate. This way, you can choose to mirror our votes to support the authors. Look out for an announcement regarding this in our Daily Curation List posts. From next week, every Monday we'll have a Weekly Roundup with statistics, similar to this post.
We are always open to feedback, and would love to know how you feel we could do better in Month #2!
I am really glad to have this invaluable opportunity to support Curie!
Thanks for the support @clayop :) its much appreciated!
A truly valuable investment!
The whole Steemit Community will be better for it!
I'm going to be on this list next month :)
Thank you all for your support! I'm sure all of us in the list would be very discouraged without all curators up-voting for us. Hopefully none of us will forget to donate from time to time to keep this initiative going.
Thanks for dropping by @mariandavp! Some of us are fans of your artstuff & postings!
Really grateful @kevinwong !! Your comments and support make a big difference to me. Maybe one day you'll be able to come to one of my exhibitions and take with you a thank you present :)
Fantastic work. Good to see you are already making a difference. Well done to all those who have donated their time, voting power and money to help this be realised.
Thanks for the support buddy. I think we're gonna try to add more value soon and make it even more inclusive for community participation for mutual-aid such as this. Your ideas will much welcome on channel curie :)
If useful, I could help curating Science & Technology posts. I have been running a digest on my own (see e.g. https://steemit.com/popularscience/@claudiop63/my-science-and-technology-digest-4 ), but it might be sensible to integrate my curation into your project.
That would be great! Please join us in the #curie channel at Steemit.chat.
@claudiop63, I ran a regular hidden gems feature for a while and it's become more semi-regular now. When I thought about what I was trying to accomplish with that blog feature, I realized Project Curie with pooled voting power could probably do more than I could. Since becoming more active on here three authors I submitted have been featured on Project Curie. I would advise you to consider doing the same.
Great job for everyone involved in the curie initiative - it's awesome to see it growing with voting power. The curation has been focused well, keep it up and happy to help if I can :)
Thanks buddy. And you can help :) throw ideas and suggestions in channel curie. Drop by whenever!
@curie rocks. Thank you so much for what you're doing. I've benefited tremendously, and was able to send some of that to Haiti as well. Woot!
Excellent 1st month guys.... I want to thanks all of you for this project and the support to the minnows here. Happy to see new names coming out from the shadows.
Project Cervantes is having a strong impact in the Spanish community and more quality content is appearing every day.
We keep growing together!
Sounds great! Thank you to all the whales for supporting this project. I know a few who upvote my posts all the time and it is truly appreciated!
Curie is a good idea to expand steemit into a multilingual social-network! I hope Proyecto Cervantes suceeds as I'm willing to share content in Spanish :)