In Utopian.io we strive hard to improve quality of contributions and moderation processes. Today we are announcing a new update to the Utopian Rules that supports CrowdIn contributions back and a great improvement to the selection of moderation applicants, via the Utopian Moderation Quiz.

CrowdIn Support

As a contributor you can start contributing again on CrowdIn as long as you are enabled as a proofreader on the project. In order to get enabled as a proofreader, you should get in touch with the CrowdIn project owner or managers.

By enabling you as a proofreader the project owner entrust you will be able to successfully submit quality translations. Utopian relies on this simple fact to judge/predict wether your contribution will be valid or not.

Utopian.io is happy to announce that is collaborating with CrowdIn for a better integrated experience in the near future.

Moderation Quiz

Utopian.io is happy to release the Utopian Moderation Quiz, another milestone achieved for our journey in improving moderation processes.

Every Supervisor, Moderator or anyone willing to be part of the Utopian Moderation teams will have to complete the Utopian Moderation Quiz.

In order to pass the quiz you must have full understanding of the Utopian Rules.

Existing Moderators and Supervisors have 10 days to take the quiz from the date of this announcement.

Existing Moderators or Supervisors that won’t take or fail the quiz within 10 days from this announcement will be disabled.

If you wish to become a member of the Utopian Moderation teams take the quiz anytime. The staff will review your application within 72 hours.

Visibility Category

Your ad/post should now reach an audience of a minimum 5000 people in order for your contribution to be accepted in Utopian.

Other rules have been changed, please review them all https://utopian.io/rules

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We are made of developers, system administrators, entrepreneurs, artists, content creators, thinkers. We embrace every nationality, mindset and belief.

Utopian.io is the first Community-Driven Witness. Every decision will be taken as per the consensus of the entire community using our public Discord server and soon via a public voting system.

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Andriy Poznakhovskyy, Head of Customer Support in CrowdIn was quick to respond and offer to help get CrowdIn support back on Utopian, shortly after Utopian announced dropping it. Isn’t this love?

Utopian.io has recently announced dropping CrowdIn support due to difficulties in properly reviewing contributions, and due to the lack of a CrowdIn API to help scale the moderation process.

Just after the announcement Andriy Poznakhovskyy, Head of Customer Support in CrowdIn, replied to the tweet.

CrowdIn Knows Utopian Exists And It Is Loving it!

Not only did CrowdIn get in touch directly, but we also received numerous messages from project owners interested in Utopian’s continued support for CrowdIn contributions. We couldn’t be happier!

Utopian.io is working hard to resume accepting CrowdIn translations as soon as possible and we will work directly with CrowdIn to scale the moderation process.

Utopian Support for CrowdIn Contributions

Contributors will be happy to know Utopian.io will apply the best possible short term solution to re-enable CrowdIn contribution submission as early as next week, while working on long term interoperability solutions, and a deeper integration of CrowdIn contribution and collaboration in Utopian.

Utopian Community-Driven Witness

We are made of developers, system administrators, entrepreneurs, artists, content creators, thinkers. We embrace every nationality, mindset and belief.

Utopian.io is the first Community-Driven Witness. Every decision will be taken as per the consensus of the entire community using our public Discord server and soon via a public voting system.

• Go here Steem Witnesses
• Scroll to the bottom
• Write utopian-io and vote or set utopian-io as a proxy
• Use Steem Connect for Voting Utopian as a Witness
• Or Use Steem Connect for proxying your vote to Utopian Witness

@freedom - Vote Witness	@misterdelegation
@ned	@wackou - Vote Witness
@xeldal - Vote Witness	@lafona-miner - Vote Witness
@cnts	@steempty - Vote Witness
@fenghuang	@thecryptodrive - Vote Witness

@ruah	@espoem
@knowledges	@arie.steem
@elear	@damla
@mcfarhat	@rosatravels
@omeratagun	@manishmike10

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Due to the huge number of contributions and abuses, Utopian constantly improves its rules. We are announcing here another significant update that aims to increase the quality of contributions and simplify the moderation process . Contributors have 48 hours before having to bind to the new rules.

Binding To The Rules

You have 48 hours from the date and time of this announcement before having to bind to the new rules. Every contribution that does not meet the updated rules after Friday 2, 6PM CET will be rejected.

Significant Changes

Below the most significant updates. More updates apply than the ones reported on this post, find all the updated rules on https://utopian.io/rules

Language

Contents of the contributions will always have to be in english.

• Tutorials, Video Tutorials and Blog Posts can now only be in english.

Dropped CrowdIn Support

Due to the lack of a comprehensive CrowdIn API, Utopian needs to drop its support. Contributions in the translations category will only be accepted when submitted via Github. This may be a temporary solution until Utopian can find better ways to scale in supporting CrowdIn.

Affected Categories

Find below the categories affected by these rules changes and the current requirements.

More updates apply than the ones reported on this post, find all the updated rules on https://utopian.io/rules

Translations

• This category is meant only for translations you have created or updated for an Open Source project.
• You must translate a minimum of 1000 words per translation contribution.
• Text that is supposed to remain untranslated (links, code, paths, …) or duplicated strings/text can’t be included in the minimum amount of words.
• You could translate less than the minimum amount of words if the project itself has less to be translated in total. May lead to a lower vote.
• Entire translations are always preferred. If you are writing about a partial translation we reserve the right to evaluate the actual work.
• If it is obvious that you can’t properly write in the source language of the translation, your contribution will be rejected. Translations must be provided as a Pull Requst on the GitHub repository.
• The Pull Request must have been merged within the past 14 days.
• Updates on Own Projects can be committed directly, without a Pull Request. Commits must not be older than 14 days.
• Your GitHub username must match that on Utopian. If it does not, you must add your Utopian username in your GitHub profile.
• You must include every possible detail to check your translation and the tools you have used to translate.
• Same translations from different authors will be accepted if the moderator can recognise the newest translation has better quality.
• If the provided translation is obviously machine-translated for more than 20% or has low quality, it will be rejected.
• Proof-reading is not acceptable in Utopian as a valid contribution.

Development

• In the development category you can submit Bug Fixes, New Features and your Own Projects.
• Contributions must have a comprehensible commit history. Larger projects or updates submitted in a single commit will not be accepted.
• Outdated or low quality code can lead to rejection.
• Generated code or other results of automated processes will not be accepted.
• Submitted projects must have a unique value. Redundant projects will not be accepted.
• Trivial code snippets, example code or simple templates will not be accepted.
• Bug Fixes and New Features must be submitted via Pull Requests. >- The Pull Request must have been merged within the past 14 days.
• Updates on Own Projects can be committed directly, without a Pull Request. Commits must not be older than 14 days.
• Bug Fixes for your Own Projects will not be accepted, unless the Bugs were caused by third party dependencies.
• Your Utopian account must be connected to your GitHub account.

Tutorials

• Video Tutorials must be technical instructions that teach non-trivial aspects of an Open Source project.
• Design or video editing related tutorials, gameplay, simple on-screen instructions, ubiquitous functions (Save, Open, Print, etc.) or basic programming concepts (variables, operators, loops, etc.) will not be accepted.
• Your contribution can be rejected if the moderator provides a link to another tutorial that covers the same topic better.
• You must mention your Utopian username at the beginning of the video.
• Video Tutorials using a machine voice will be rejected.
• The video and audio recording must be in HD (min. 720p).
• You must host the video on YouTube or DTube and embed it in your post.
• The video can not be older than 14 days.
• If you provide a text version of your tutorial, you need to include it or a link to it in your post. You can not submit a separate contribution in the Tutorial category.
• If you create a GitHub repository with additional material (like code samples), make sure to choose the repository of the project your tutorial is about and not your own repository. You can provide links to your repository in your post.

Graphics

• This category is meant only for graphics/videos/motion graphics that you have realised for an open source project.
• The contribution must be a direct result of your own work. It is strictly prohibited to modify other people’s work/assets or use a template and claim it as yours.
• T-shirts and merchandising are generally not valid contributions in Utopian.
• You must include every possible detail in your contributions to verify the work is done by you.
• A contribution must contain the final file of your work, sample of the work, applications of your work, comparison to the existing product, and benefits of your work to the project owner.
• Graphics contributions can be delivered in .psd, .ai, .cdr or any other universally accepted file format except logo designs. Those must be delivered in a vector file (e.g. .eps/.svg/.pdf) for flexibility and scalability, and .png file format.
• Logo design contributions must contain the actual logo (logomark/logotype), the logo in a form of an icon, logo variations in terms of size and colour (monochrome and full-colour versions). >- You can see some examples of good contributions here, here, and here.
• Any text or fonts must be converted into shapes or “outlined”.
• You must provide credit to all third-party images/assets you have used in your contribution and make sure that you have permission to use them for commercial use. (images, videos, fonts, 3D models etc.)
• Intro videos are acceptable only if the project has already had an intro video before and your contributed video is of a better quality.
• It is highly recommended that you promote your work to the project owner.
• Banners, header images and other assets for use on social media platforms are not valid contributions at the moment.
• Designs are preferred to be in a vector format unless the project owner specifies a different format.

Bug Hunting

• In this category you can submit Bug Reports for actively maintained Open Source projects on GitHub.
• The repository on GitHub must accept issues.
• Bug Reports for projects in pre-alpha stage will not be accepted.
• Cosmetic issues, that do not affect the functionality of the software, will not be accepted.
• You must provide sufficiant detail to reproduce the bug.
• Add screenshots, video recordings or animated GIFs, if they can help to understand the bug. [SOFT]
• Include information about your technical environment such as >- Device, Operating System, Browser and Application versions.
• Bugs must be found on the latest released version of the application.
• If you or someone else submitted the issue on GitHub first, the Bug Report will not be accepted. Approved Bug Reports will automatically be published on GitHub.
• Your Utopian account must be connected to your GitHub account.

Utopian Community-Driven Witness

We are made of developers, system administrators, entrepreneurs, artists, content creators, thinkers. We embrace every nationality, mindset and belief.

Utopian.io is the first Community-Driven Witness. Every decision will be taken as per the consensus of the entire community using our public Discord server and soon via a public voting system.

• Go here Steem Witnesses
• Scroll to the bottom
• Write utopian-io and vote or set utopian-io as a proxy
• Use Steem Connect for Voting Utopian as a Witness
• Or Use Steem Connect for proxying your vote to Utopian Witness

@freedom - Vote Witness	@misterdelegation
@ned	@wackou - Vote Witness
@xeldal - Vote Witness	@lafona-miner - Vote Witness
@cnts	@steempty - Vote Witness
@thecryptodrive - Vote Witness	@furion - Vote Witness

@ruah	@espoem
@knowledges	@arie.steem
@elear	@damla
@mcfarhat	@rosatravels
@omeratagun	@manishmike10

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Run The Environment Locally

Find below all the information to properly run Utopian.io on your local machine if you wish to contribute to development of the project.

Run the frontend

Clone and Install

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```cd utopian.io

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### Generate and Export SSL Certificates

```openssl req -x509 -sha512 -newkey rsa:4096 -keyout key.pem -out cert.pem -days 365 -nodes

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```export SERVER_SSL_KEY="/path/key.pem"

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Replace path with the path to the generated .pem files.
**You may need to authorise your browser in using a self-signed SSL certificate**

### Run The Frontend

```npm run dev-server

Run the backend

Run a MongoDB Instance

• Create a database named utopian-io
• Create the following collections:
• a. users
• b. moderators
• c. posts
• d. sessions
• e. sponsors
• f. projects
• g. stats
• h. faqs

Clone and Install

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```cd api.utopian.io

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### Create .env file

UTOPIAN_GITHUB_SECRET=GITHUB_SECRET_HERE UTOPIAN_GITHUB_CLIENT_ID=GITHUB_CLIENT_ID_HERE UTOPIAN_GITHUB_REDIRECT_URL=http://localhost:3000/github/callback UTOPIAN_STEEMCONNECT_SECRET=STEEM_CONNECT_SECRET MONGO_HOST=mongodb://localhost/utopian-io

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You can generate a Steem Connect secret by creating an application on https://v2.steemconnect.com/apps/create.

Replace the Github values by creating a test app for your local environment.

### Generate and Export SSL Certificates

```export NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED=0

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```export SERVER_SSL_CERT="/path/cert.pem"

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Replace path with the path to the generated .pem files.
**You may need to authorise your browser in using a self-signed SSL certificate**

### Run The Backend

```npm run build

npm run dev-server

Utopian Community-Driven Witness

We are made of developers, system administrators, entrepreneurs, artists, content creators, thinkers. We embrace every nationality, mindset and belief.

Utopian.io is the first Community-Driven Witness. Every decision will be taken as per the consensus of the entire community using our public Discord server and soon via a public voting system.

• Go here Steem Witnesses
• Scroll to the bottom
• Write utopian-io and vote or set utopian-io as a proxy
• Use Steem Connect for Voting Utopian as a Witness
• Or Use Steem Connect for proxying your vote to Utopian Witness

@freedom - Vote Witness	@misterdelegation
@ned	@transisto
@wackou - Vote Witness	@xeldal - Vote Witness
@lafona-miner - Vote Witness	@cnts
@steempty - Vote Witness	@thecryptodrive - Vote Witness

@ruah	@espoem
@knowledges	@arie.steem
@elear	@damla
@mcfarhat	@rosatravels
@omeratagun	@manishmike10

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