@utopian-io - Contribution 'Approved/Rejected' Analysis - 16th - 22nd February 2018

This is an analysis of the Contribution types, and approval/rejection numbers for 16th - 22nd February 2018 inclusive.

Contents

General / Assumptions

1. Contributions Summary

2. Contributions by Type

3. All contribution Types

4. Summary Analysis

5. Tools used to gather data and compile report

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General

@utopian-io is the open source project for open source projects, housed on the Steem Blockchain.

Currently, @utopian.io holds over 3.5 million Steem power through delegations from its kind sponsors.

To become a sponsor and view the current standings visit https://utopian.io/sponsors

This report is an analysis of the number and type of contributions sent for review, and the success/fail rate of each contribution type.

Recent reports of this type are listed here.

October 2017

November 2017 - Week 1

November 2017 - Week 2

November 2017 - Week 3

November 2017 - Week 4

December 2017 - Week 1

December 2017 - Week 2

December 2017 - Week 3

December 2017 - Week 4

January 2018 - Week 1

January 2018 - Week 2

January 2018 - Week 3

January 2018 - Week 4

January 2018 - Week 5

February 2018 - Week 1

February 2018 - Week 2

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I will aim to provide this report on a weekly basis, with a look at the previous weeks data and more historical data to compare and contrast.

This will allow contributors and employees of utopian.io to keep in touch with how the platform is progressing with regards to approval percentages and number of Contribution Types being submitted.

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Assumptions

In this report, 'Approved' contributions have been voted on by @utopian-io.

'Rejected' contributions have not received a vote from @utopian-io.

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1. Contributions Summary

For the week, 16th - 22nd February 2018 inclusive, the SteemSQL DataBase holds a total of 3198 potential contributions to utopian-io. This is just 25 more contributions than the previous weeks' total which was 3173.

2023 of these contributions have been approved, 150 (8%) more than the previous weeks' total of 1873.

The approval percentage of 63% is up 4% from last week.

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The Contributions offered can be any one of the following types:

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This weeks data, split into Contribution types is shown in the pie chart below:

'Translations' is again the category containing the most contributions (1536), with 48% of the total for the week.

And as last week, 'Ideas/Suggestions' (605) are in 2nd, and 'Graphics' (343) in 3rd place.

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2 Contributions by Type

In this section we take a look a few of the individual contribution types of interest.

A full list of contribution types is listed further below with associated figures and analysis.

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Translations - Approvals / Rejections

This week, 1275 'Translation' contributions were approved from a total of 1536. This is a marked increase in both contributions and the number of approvals compared to the last couple of weeks, which can be clearly seen in the bar chart below.

Recently, adjustments were made to the rules and applications required completion before a contributor was able to submit to this category. We can see that initially, this had a huge knock-on effect to the number of submissions, which fell from over 2000 to 521 at the end of January.

Since then, the category has again quickly started to receive a growing number of contributions, but 'this time around', there is something else to point out.

Last week, the category obtained its best ever approval percentage (88%), and again this week the approval % has finished above 80%. If we look at the approval percentages over the same timeframe as the chart above, we can see that the past two weeks have seen a noticeable improvement.

This implies that the level of quality and understanding of what is required has improved markedly since the changes were made last month.

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Analysis - Approvals / Rejections

In last weeks report, it was noted that:

...the 'Analysis' contribution category has seen a sharp rise in submissions when compared to the last 6 weeks....

This week, the opposite can be said as the number of contributions has dropped to the lowest level since prior to the start of the year.

This is interesting as, as far as the analysis and a moderator of whom this category was recently discussed with, there have not been any recent changes to the category rules.

On a positive note, the approval % for the 'Analysis' category has jumped 25% from the previous week and stands at 73%.

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Development - Approvals / Rejections

It is generally thought that @utopian-io is a platform for developers, although one could argue looking at the categories that there are places where a contributions can be submitted without a great deal of technical, and coding knowledge.

With this said, the 'Development' category is one of interest, and has performed well this week , as has been the case over the past month,

Looking at the above table, we can see that the category has succeeded in achieving an acceptance rate equal or greater than 4 out of every 5 contributions, for 4 of the past 5 weeks.

Before this time, approved 'Development' contributions were averaging at around 2 from every 3 submitted.

It's also worth noting that the number of contributions has stayed in a range of 35, 115 being the lowest and 150 the highest.

Both of these statistics show stability in this category. This, the analyst likes to see, as generally

If it ain't broke, don't fix it

3. All contribution types

The following table shows all types and totals of contributions submitted, with their approval % in the end column.

Again, the 'Development' category leads the way on the approval percentage, closely followed by 'Social', and 'Translations'.

The 'Social' contribution category has scored an approval rate better than than 4 out of every 5 submissions for the 2nd week in a row, and we have 2 additional submissions than the previous week.

Looking at the 'Blog' category, there has been a small improvement in the approval %, but this is still well below the average of all submission categories.

This week: 5 approvals, 12.5% success rate

Last week: 3 approvals, 6.8% success rate

Two weeks ago: 5 approvals, 10% success rate

Three weeks ago: 11 approvals, 12.5% success rate

Let's hope for further improvements again next week

The 'Bug hunting' approval % has fallen 15% to around the same level as it was two weeks ago after a better week last time (50%).

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4. Summary Analysis

Each week provides an expanding dataset, and from this it is possible to learn more about the developing trends in the utopian-io ecosystem.

However, this week as far as totals go looks fairly static compared to the previous week. The analyst suspects this will not be of concern to either the contributors or moderators, as the approval % has moved up slightly (4%) again this week.

_	JAN 1	JAN 2	JAN 3	JAN 4	JAN 5	FEB 1	FEB 2	FEB 2
Total	4676	4845	3511	4491	4722	2258	3173	3198
App'd	2976	2522	2110	2774	2747	1285	1873	2023

This weeks total contributions sit way below the 5000 suggested in the past as being a limit during these early stages for utopian-io. Perhaps it is still too early yet to reach this figure.

However, with a 63% approval percentage this week, this sits nicely in the range of 55-65% as suggested by the analyst to be the ongoing average approval percentage for contributions.

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Summary

This past week has again seen another small improvement for the contributors to utopian-io. Steady steps in the right direction are a good sign.

Previously I wrote:

... [the Analyst] considers this past week to have been a good one for @utopian-io, and a solid foundation to build on again next week.

The same words could be said again for this past week, and as we head into March, there are shoots of growth present... lets see how the seeds planted recently will do over the coming months.

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5. Tools used to gather this data and compile report

The data is sourced from SteemSQL - A publicly available SQL database with all the blockchain data held within.

The SQL queries to extra to the data have been produced in both SQL Server Personal Edition and LINQPAD 5. Some of the code used for these results can be found in an earlier contribution.

The charts used to present the data were produced using MS Excel.

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_{This data was compiled on the 27th February 2018 at 4pm (UCT)}

_{I am part of a Steemit Business Intelligence community. We all post under the tag #blockchainbi. If you have analysis you would like to be carried out on utopian-io/Steem data, please do contact me or any of the #blockchainbi team and we will do our best to help you.}

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Thanks

Asher @abh12345

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