[CHARTS] Brief monthly overview of the local boards activity

[uchegod-21]

I see local boards an important part of the forum, even more so now than before when bitcoin is spreading all over the world and not all people are capable or willing to communicate in English. On top of that, each country has its own crypto related issues and where better to discuss it other than your own local board.

I love bitcointalk for being able to support and create boards for different countries and languages. That is big advantage this forum has over others of its kind. When you are in your local board you will feel you are in another forum, yet in the same big bitcointalk.
Even if you don't understand English, you will still be comfortable and understand everything happening in the forum

As Cyrus will be examining your request, get ready to travel to Nigeria. We will give you a beautiful wife, it doesn't matter if you have a wife before. It's our culture, we give wife to strangers that are good to us in appreciation for their kindness 

Hah I am not so sure that he even saw my post, let alone considering it. Regarding the wife thing, thank you for the offer but I am barely managing one wife, let alone two. 

Cyrus saw your post and he is working out something about it. For you wanting only your wife, you are a good and faithful man. Congratulations!

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[Rikafip]

Cyrus saw your post and he is working out something about it

Is that just your speculation that Cyrus is working on it, or there's actually some development (haven't been online for a couple of days so maybe I missed something)?

For you wanting only your wife, you are a good and faithful man. Congratulations!

Its more about not being willing to handle x2 nagging.

[Rikafip]

Another month, another monthly overview of the local boards activity. Since Christmas is in a few days, I thought to better publish it now because in that period between Christmas and New Year I don't think I could bother with something like this (too focused on eating and drinking ). As in all previous month, Charts and table are made with the help of @DdmrDdmr Merit Dashboard and @TryNinja Ninjastic.space so thanks again guys for your awesome tools.

Communities marked with * (Pakistan, Nigerian and Bangladesh) don't have their own local boards yet. I am happy to remove "*" next to Nigeria as they finally got their own local board. Congratulations once again, and I hope that Pakistan is the next in line.


Post activity per local board during November 2022

During above mentioned period, 14823 posts were written across 18 boards, which is a solid 5% increase from October (14084). The whole forum felt more lively last month (probably due FTX fiasco) and I guess this translated to more activity in local boards which is a good thing of course.

Regarding the most active boards, no change there; Russian is still by far the most active one, followed by two regular names at the 2nd and 3rd spot (Turkish and German). As a matter of fact, when you look at top 6 and compare it with last month, only Italian (had a very strong increase of activity) and Indonesian changed the spots.

When it comes to the least active local boards, no much change either as we can see the usual names. I don't know what's happening with Bangladesh though, as I remember them being more active in the past and now they are at the bottom for the last few months. If they ever want to get their own local board, they will have to increase their activity as this is certainly not the way. Speaking of candidates for a local board, Pakistan is still going strong with 282 posts and hopefully they continue in the same manner.

Number of active members per local board during November 2022

Since there was an increase in the forum activity, there's no surprise that number of active members across local boards went up as well; from 1101 in October to 1204 in November which makes it ~10% increase. This increase is shared somewhat evenly across all local boards and hopefully those members will keep being active during December as well.

Merit shared per local board during November 2022

More active members, more posts written, so no surprise that there's more merit shared as well; from 5030 during October to 5469 during November, which is percentage wise increase very similar to the one of number of posts.

Once again Russian board is the most merited one which makes sense considering their number of posts, and this month its followed by Italian and German boards, while Turkish (that was second) dropped to 4th spot. While some boards could use more merit (Portuguese?) the only one that is still seriously undermerited is Pilipinas, but that's not a new situation and instead something that is going on for iirc more than a year.

Merit senders and receivers per local board during November 2022

Pretty straightforward chart that is ordered by the amount of merits shared. As always, the only one that seriously sticks out is Pilipinas board, and that means they have very high amount of people being part of merit system, relative to their very limited amount of merit. Just another confirmation that they could use another merit source.

Merit/Post ratio per local board for November 2022

Last but not the least, merit/post ratio chart. Once again Arabic board is far ahead the others, but this time with a more realistic ratio compared to October, and once again followed by Romanian board. While this chart generally looks good for majority of boards, there is still some room for improvement so I hope members of these boards will consider making a merit application threads, if they haven;t one that already.

The most active members per local board during November 2022

And in the end, list of the most active members across 18 local boards and communities.  joker_josue [248] kept his title of the most active local board member, followed by Snork1979 [185] and DdmrDdmr [169] . Gj guys and keep it up!

Russian	|	German	|	Turkish	|	Italian	|	Portuguese	|	Spanish	|
_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|
1. Snork1979 [185]	|	1. mole0815 [119]	|	1. wolwoo [155]	|	1. fillippone [150]	|	1. joker_josue [248]	|	1. DdmrDdmr [169]	|
2. Ratimov [161]	|	2. 1miau [93]	|	2. mandown [114]	|	2. Ale88 [81]	|	2. bitmover [150]	|	2. darxiaomi [52]	|
3. The0ldl_lser [136]	|	3. bct_ail [87]	|	3. meser# [93]	|	3. mendace [72]	|	3. TryNinja [119]	|	3. Hispo [48]	|
4. klarki [123]	|	4. willi9974 [87]	|	4. kriminall [85]	|	4. hymperion [69]	|	4. Disruptivas [78]	|	4. famososMuertos [40]	|
5. xandry [118]	|	5. sam00 [72]	|	5. Phoenix Anka [82]	|	5. babo [65]	|	5. rdluffy [61]	|	5. Porfirii [37]	|
6. Olgacom [93]	|	6. CoinEraser [71]	|	6. Bthd [79]	|	6. bitbollo [54]	|	6. Lucasgabd [41]	|	6. seoincorporation [34]	|
7. Galina1006 [92]	|	7. Lakai01 [70]	|	7. ZekiBeyy [75]	|	7. giammangiato [48]	|	7. alegotardo [39]	|	7. Don Pedro Dinero [31]	|
8. lutik378 [83]	|	8. bullrun2020bro [69]	|	8. RaltcoinsB [69]	|	8. Paolo.Demidov [45]	|	8. gagux123 [34]	|	8. womanderful [11]	|
9. LailaTarot [75]	|	9. Unknown01 [66]	|	9. judas [69]	|	9. duesoldi [45]	|	9. sabotag3x [34]	|	9. Silberman [10]	|
10. Satis28 [73]	|	10. -doubleU- [64]	|	10. trendcoin [62]	|	10. gbianchi [42]	|	10. Jayjones [31]	|	10. crypt_am [10]	|

Indonesian	|	French	|	Pilipinas	|	Croatian	|	Polish	|	Arabic	|
_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|
1. Husna QA [58]	|	1. patrickus [49]	|	1. blockman [44]	|	1. slackovic [74]	|	1. Tytanowy Janusz [48]	|	1. Kavelj22 [30]	|
2. DroomieChikito [46]	|	2. elma [47]	|	2. Jemzx00 [43]	|	2. Daniel91 [40]	|	2. wwzsocki [41]	|	2. OmegaStarScream [26]	|
3. blue Snow [43]	|	3. GrosWesh [33]	|	3. Fredomago [33]	|	3. Pmalek [33]	|	3. PawGo [24]	|	3. Bybit Arabic [20]	|
4. mamesso [38]	|	4. Saint-loup [31]	|	4. bisdak40 [29]	|	4. Trofo [33]	|	4. cygan [11]	|	4. yhiaali3 [20]	|
5. masulum [37]	|	5. Danydee [25]	|	5. serjent05 [28]	|	5. dkbit98 [29]	|	5. Flangler1 [8]	|	5. Ulven [19]	|
6. abhiseshakana [34]	|	6. F2b [23]	|	6. carlisle1 [27]	|	6. casperBGD [25]	|	6. lokas0506 [8]	|	6. GxSTxV [14]	|
7. dewo_sat [31]	|	7. Becassine [18]	|	7. agustina2 [25]	|	7. FatFork [22]	|	7. dwminer1 [3]	|	7. khaled0111 [9]	|
8. Luzin [23]	|	8. Halab [18]	|	8. Baofeng [21]	|	8. cryptofrka [19]	|	8. januszmuzykant [3]	|	8. albon [7]	|
9. TelolettOm [22]	|	9. LeGaulois [17]	|	9. SFR10 [20]	|	9. Rikafip [14]	|	9. 5Ksana_HandMade [1]	|	9. lotfiuser [5]	|
10. elda34b [22]	|	10. yeeggNFT [10]	|	10. acroman08 [18]	|	10. Snowshow [14]	|	10. Arnas [1]	|	10. Husires [3]	|

Romanian	|	Indian	|	Greek	|	Pakistan*	|	Nigeria	|	Bangladesh*	|
_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|
1. NeuroticFish [28]	|	1. sagarbansal21 [8]	|	1. cryptosize [52]	|	1. Unknown Op [38]	|	1. Agbe [29]	|	1. Projitive post [5]	|
2. GazetaBitcoin [24]	|	2. IIrik11 [5]	|	2. BlackHatCoiner [27]	|	2. UmerIdrees [28]	|	2. CryptopreneurBrainboss [24]	|	2. Crypto Library [4]	|
3. PrivacyG [8]	|	3. teosanru [5]	|	3. HmmMAA [16]	|	3. ThemePen [26]	|	3. Marykeller [24]	|	3. musafar37 [4]	|
4. tornetwork [4]	|	4. PrivacyG [4]	|	4. scrab4ever [8]	|	4. Faisal2202 [22]	|	4. Maestro75 [22]	|	4. Little Mouse [2]	|
5. IonCreanga [3]	|	5. libert19 [2]	|	5. Dr1000 [6]	|	5. ZAINmalik75 [21]	|	5. RockBell [22]	|	5. Rjakash [2]	|
6. Lezzz [2]	|	6. 100bitcoin [1]	|	6. chek2fire [3]	|	6. Sayeds56 [20]	|	6. uchegod-21 [18]	|	6. AlphaEther [1]	|
7. Rizzrack [2]	|	7. AishwaryaDas [1]	|	7. Carlos Smart [2]	|	7. WatChe [20]	|	7. Davidvictorson [15]	|	7. BTC_Mouse [1]	|
8. 1miau [1]	|	8. BlackHatCoiner [1]	|	8. Dimitris [2]	|	8. Hamza2424 [17]	|	8. Cryptomultiplier [13]	|	8. Bitluck77 [1]	|
9. 3dOOm [1]	|	9. amicrypto [1]	|	9. @kapaki [1]	|	9. Broken143 [14]	|	9. Coyster [12]	|	9. Juwel580 [1]	|
10. Arnas [1]	|	10. avikz [1]	|	10. Arnas [1]	|	10. Rehan Zakir [14]	|	10. Majestic-milf [12]	|	10. Mamun365 [1]	|

Is there any inteerst for a sort of yearly overview, and if yes should I just made it like this one and/or you would like to see something else? All ideas and suggestions are welcome. Thnx!

[shahzadafzal]

Another month, another monthly overview of the local boards activity. Since Christmas is in a few days, I thought to better publish it now because in that period between Christmas and New Year I don't think I could bother with something like this (too focused on eating and drinking ). As in all previous month, Charts and table are made with the help of @DdmrDdmr Merit Dashboard and @TryNinja Ninjastic.space so thanks again guys for your awesome tools.

Communities marked with * (Pakistan, Nigerian and Bangladesh) don't have their own local boards yet. I am happy to remove "*" next to Nigeria as they finally got their own local board. Congratulations once again, and I hope that Pakistan is the next in line.

Thank you Rikafip for the latest statistics and congratulations to Nigeria for getting their own board they deserve.

We are very hopeful soon Pakistan will get their own board too.

Is there any inteerst for a sort of yearly overview, and if yes should I just made it like this one and/or you would like to see something else? All ideas and sugegestions are welcomed. Thnx!

Yes yes please actually I did it, last yearl I compiled all monthly stats that you posted and created yearly summary for 2021.

I'm sure your stats will be much more accurate and more presentable then my these excel based manual stats

[fillippone]

Great work as usual, and we’ll done beating me with the timing!
Nice to hear also about the Nigerian board, which. I wasn’t aware of.

On this subject please note that Nigerian board is missing from “Merit senders and receivers“ chart.

[Rikafip]

Yes yes please actually I did it, last yearl I compiled all monthly stats that you posted and created yearly summary for 2021.

I will probably try to figure something out then.

I'm sure your stats will be much more accurate and more presentable then my these excel based manual stats

Since we are all using the same source, I don't think that mine would be any more accurate than yours, and imho yours look presentable enough.

Great work as usual, and we’ll done beating me with the timing!

Once again you win slacker of the month award. 

On this subject please note that Nigerian board is missing from “Merit senders and receivers“ chart.

This overview is for November and they got their local board yesterday so they are not yet included in Merit Dashboard, which is the source for that data. They will be included though in the next overview, if DdmrDdmr adds them.

[joker_josue]

Thanks for showing us these stats once again Rikafip 

This time there was less activity for everyone, but I wasn't expecting the difference between me and the second to be so big.

Great work as usual, and we’ll done beating me with the timing!

Once again you win slacker of the month award. 

Look, I haven't made my tree yet. 
I know it's not that relevant, but it's the routine I've been keeping. See if I can throw the tree tomorrow.

[fillippone]

Great work as usual, and we’ll done beating me with the timing!

Once again you win slacker of the month award. 

Look, I haven't made my tree yet. 
I know it's not that relevant, but it's the routine I've been keeping. See if I can throw the tree tomorrow.

I guess the ones that engage in this sort of periodic updates (another one is @Coin-1 ) greatly underestimate the amount of commitment and work necessary to keep a thread lively updated.

[DdmrDdmr]

<…> This overview is for November and they got their local board yesterday so they are not yet included in Merit Dashboard, which is the source for that data. They will be included though in the next overview, if DdmrDdmr adds them.

I’ve altered the path structure of the posts I’ve already got, that now conform the Nigerian local board. The Merit Dashboard now displays the data in the local board structures, as opposed to the local thread structure.

Observations:
-   Nigerian local board inherits three threads from the former structure. Before today, I was only adding Merits from one of the threads (the main one), so the total amount now displayed is higher than before for each month.

-   We’ll see if I manage to fit it in smoothly with tomorrow's data download. It may take me a bit to ensure it all runs smoothly.

-   I do not have historical data for post counts, nor merit per post data, as that was being done for existing boards. I’ll start gathering it from the end of month onwards.

If anyone sees any bugs with the data, do let me know.

See: https://public.tableau.com/shared/Z8WM7H82Y?:display_count=n&:origin=viz_share_link

[skarais]

As a matter of fact, when you look at top 6 and compare it with last month, only Italian (had a very strong increase of activity) and Indonesian changed the spots.

That's right mate, there was a slight change that occurred during the month of November where the number of posts made in that time period decreased compared to the previous month, it has caused our position to drop one rank. I don't think it's a problem, it's still normal I think, after all we still maintain the number of active users at 70 in the last few months.

We also managed to rank in the top 6 in the merit distribution data, which has increased compared to the previous month where we were ranked 9th. It is difficult to maintain this position, but as far as I have observed our local board is still the most active compared to several other local board.

Mate, great job again from you, holiday season is coming, so stay safe.

[Rikafip]

I’ve altered the path structure of the posts I’ve already got, that now conform the Nigerian local board. The Merit Dashboard now displays the data in the local board structures, as opposed to the local thread structure.

Awesome, thanks!

I just updated the merit senders/receivers chart so now data for Nigerian board is included as well. I guess you don't have that data for Pakistan and Bangladesh, or maybe you do and I was somehow unable to find it?

We also managed to rank in the top 6 in the merit distribution data, which has increased compared to the previous month where we were ranked 9th. It is difficult to maintain this position, but as far as I have observed our local board is still the most active compared to several other local board.

What matters more than position is the actual number of merits shared and that's where you performed very good and now you are at the very decent merit/post ratio. I mean, don't you agree that its better to be 6th with ~600 merits than 3rd with 400?

[DdmrDdmr]

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Only the data associated to the Merits on their respective threads (no data on posts nor merit per post):
https://public.tableau.com/shared/ZNFWJ4DKD?:display_count=n&:origin=viz_share_link

The above data figures on the "Local Language Thread" tab, alongside the main local language thread’s Merit data. Here too, if any local language happens to have more than one thread (the Nigerian local board had a few threads there), then I’d only be tracking the main thread.

[Maestro75]

Thank you Rikafip for the latest statistics and congratulations to Nigeria for getting their own board they deserve.

We are very hopeful soon Pakistan will get their own board too.

Thank you for showing us love and extending your happiness to our achievement with the local board. Your country deserve to get one too because your activities are high also. Maybe theymos will grant it before Christmas. You and your country men should not give up.

[joker_josue]

I guess the ones that engage in this sort of periodic updates (another one is @Coin-1 ) greatly underestimate the amount of commitment and work necessary to keep a thread lively updated.

I do not underestimate, I would like to make some improvements and at the moment I have little availability. So I end up trying to postpone it to see if I can make the improvements. But calmly we will do it.

I think they are all to be congratulated for the weekly/monthly effort they make to present us with this data!

THANK YOU ALL.

[skarais]

What matters more than position is the actual number of merits shared and that's where you performed very good and now you are at the very decent merit/post ratio. I mean, don't you agree that its better to be 6th with ~600 merits than 3rd with 400?

I thought about it, and I agree on that.
The amount of merit currently being distributed is quite decent, and of course I always hope that the amount can continue to increase from one month to another. I am pleased to discover the fact that many of our local posters have managed to improve the quality of their posts and in the end they have contributed to our merit system and local board statistics.

Less than 10 days from now we will get the latest data and also data for closing in 2022. I plan to publish an annual recap, it's the same idea as last year.

[Daniel91]

Rikafip, thanks again for a job well done and very interesting information you shared.
So we finally, at least briefly, reversed the long-term negative trend and finally have more posts, merits and active members in the last month.
Given that December is the holiday season when everyone is at home and has more free time, maybe this trend will continue. We look forward to your new information next month.
As for the Croatian part of the forum, the king is finally back, long live the king 
Finally everything went back to normal! 

[Rikafip]

The amount of merit currently being distributed is quite decent, and of course I always hope that the amount can continue to increase from one month to another. I am pleased to discover the fact that many of our local posters have managed to improve the quality of their posts and in the end they have contributed to our merit system and local board statistics.

Indonesian merit/post ratio still varies considerably from month to month meaning there's still some room for improvement, but if you can keep it at last month's levels that would mean that no good post should be left unmerited, or at least few very few of those.

Less than 10 days from now we will get the latest data and also data for closing in 2022. I plan to publish an annual recap, it's the same idea as last year.

I am still trying to figure out how to do yearly recap but I think that in the end I will just keep it simple and just add all those monthly stats (total amount of merit shared, posts written etc).

Given that December is the holiday season when everyone is at home and has more free time, maybe this trend will continue. We look forward to your new information next month.

I think that will depend on the situation on the market so if there won't be many things going on I don't really expect it to be as busy as the last month.

As for the Croatian part of the forum, the king is finally back, long live the king  Grin
Finally everything went back to normal!

Haha yeah, I hope that you enjoyed those few months being at the top of the list, but its just more normal to see spammovic there. 

[skarais]

Indonesian merit/post ratio still varies considerably from month to month meaning there's still some room for improvement, but if you can keep it at last month's levels that would mean that no good post should be left unmerited, or at least few very few of those.

I know, we still have room to fix it and as a local user, I will of course try to make the best of it even though I'm not actually merit source. I would even really like to invite some generous merit source to help our local board, but it's not mandatory as actually we still have 2 or 3 active merit source.

I am still trying to figure out how to do yearly recap but I think that in the end I will just keep it simple and just add all those monthly stats (total amount of merit shared, posts written etc).

This is basically the exact same as the monthly recap, but it doesn't matter if you don't do it and stick to your habits. 

[dkbit98]

Is there any inteerst for a sort of yearly overview, and if yes should I just made it like this one and/or you would like to see something else? All ideas and suggestions are welcome. Thnx!

Great report as usual, but this one is special because we officially have new Nigerian board, and our local cro-king Slacko is back on his throne and he improved our statistics a lot  
I am really interested in yearly review, or something I suggested before to show historical activity of local board from the first day they got created, and it doesn't need to contain all the details, but only important stuff.
Someone could also make one of those animated racing bars that most of us like to see.

[Rikafip]

I would even really like to invite some generous merit source to help our local board, but it's not mandatory as actually we still have 2 or 3 active merit source.

You can always use Report unmerited good posts to Merit Source topic if you think that some good posts are left unmerited. I've used it in the past when my local didn't have enough merit and it helped us a lot.

I am really interested in yearly review, or something I suggested before to show historical activity of local board from the first day they got created, and it doesn't need to contain all the details, but only important stuff.

You mean like total amount of posts created/merits shared since creation? I am not sure how that would look like since some local boards were created in 2010 while some in 2014 so it wouldn't really be fair comparison. Or you had something else in mind?
 

Someone could also make one of those animated racing bars that most of us like to see.

That's actually a very good idea and something I would like to see as well. I don't know how to do it though (maybe its done in Powerpoint or similar tool?) so maybe @bitmover (iirc he was the one making them) could do it, if he can be bothered with it.