• In spirit of Curie's transparency, we wish to use this weekly section as an ongoing development blog on this community project to communicate our progress on top of the many casual exchanges happening in channel #curie.

• For those new to Curie, please follow @curie, and join us in #curie on Steemit.chat.

• Follow @curie's votes to support the authors. Please consider following our trail and voting for curated authors. If you are a SteemAuto user, @curie is an available trail to follow.

• Wishing everyone a happy new year! 2017 marks Curie's first full year of operations, and 17th month in total.

---

Witness Update

A sincere thank you to all 2,700 Steemians voting for @curie as witness. Thanks to your support, Curie is now a top 20 witness, and the only community witness on the list - Curie curators vote democratically on witness (and all other) decisions. Needless to say, the account @curie is owned by the Curie community, and every penny earned from witness rewards will be given back to the curation community.

The witness nodes have been upgraded for greater redundancy. Furthermore, we are in the process of setting up a full RPC node for the Steem network. The existing seed node at seed.curiesteem.com:2001 will remain online and complement the full node.

The increase in funding will lead to further initiatives, starting with Curie now being able to reward Steem's most engaged and contributive authors, irrespective of Reputation. This expansion was announced last week. Curator recommendations have been opened up further - we hope to see more of the finest curators on Steem submit exceptional content to Curie. If you're interested, please join #curie on Steemit.chat for more details.

Curie will also continue supporting development of apps for the curation community, such as Steem Search, developed and consulted by Curie curators.

We hope the Steem community will continue supporting Curie. Any feedback is always welcome! To vote for @curie, please visit the Vote for Witnesses page and click on the upvote icon next to @curie. (Currently at #14)

For further queries about Curie's witness operations, feel free to contact @locikll or @geekgirl on Steemit.chat.

---

Sub-community support list & updates

We are maintaining this list in every edition of Weekly Curie for transparency.

Gaming: @playfulfoodie and @jodipamungkas
Education: @giantbear and @hanshotfirst
Homesteading: @papa-pepper and @mericanhomestead
Science: @justtryme90 and @LeMouth
Italian curators: @thenightflier and @bhuz
Brazilian curators: @maxjoy
Nigerian curators: @destinysaid @gbenga @ehiboss @ogoowinner and @fisteganos
Malaysian curators: @bitrocker2020 and @awesomianist
Myanmar: @kachinhenry and @patricksanlin
Indonesia: @aiqabrago and @levycore
Thailand / Laos: @tookta and @ricko66
Music: @heymattsokol, @edje, @mammasitta
Direct curators: @alcibiades, @teofilex11 and @liberosist

This week's sub-community curators payout is 720 Steem.

(This curation is independent of Curie's general curation works)

---

Curie's Operations team is -

Community representatives - @geekgirl and @carlgnash
General curation - @alcibiades
Sub-community curation - @donkeypong and @kevinwong
Accounts - @liberosist
Curator Recommendations - @bitrocker2020
Tech / Witness - @locikll
Operational contributors - @misterakpan, @thatdamiguy
And the hundreds of curators and reviewers, of course :)

---

Weekly Statistics

Over the last week, Curie curated a total of 88 posts at an average of 13 posts per day. Looks like it's been a busy Christmas for Curie curators :)

Do note, this number does not include Sub-community curation.

---

Authors

Here are the authors that received a Curie vote this week:-

TBA

---

Curators

The Top Curators list will dynamically change every other week depending on performance. Anybody will be able to rise up the ranks with consistent, quality curation. Inconsistent, low-quality curation will result in dropping out of Top curators list(or regular curation, if under-performance continues). Exceptional long-term top curators transition to direct curation.

This week, we have upvoted 88 posts submitted by curators in http://curiesteem.com, with 1,320 STEEM to be paid out to curators.

Curator	Curator Score	Approval Rating	Posts Submitted
carlgnash	9.00	100	9
misterakpan	7.00	100	8
thatdamiguy	7.00	100	8
laniakea1	7.00	100	7
mikepm74	7.00	100	7
milosm2302	4.00	100	4
tamacvet	3.47	83	6
choogirl	3.00	100	3
gundulkibo	2.83	64	11
bitrocker2020	2.56	80	5
babel	2.00	100	2
erodedthoughts	2.00	100	2
raj808	2.00	100	2
cyres	2.00	100	2
futurethinker	2.00	100	2
limabeing	2.00	100	2
tinypaleokitchen	2.00	100	2
dante31	1.00	100	2
zararina	1.00	100	2
cepas	1.00	100	1
saimegh	1.00	100	1
thegreatsilaban	1.00	100	1
riyansyahbp	1.00	100	1
myart	1.00	100	1
toxichan	1.00	100	1
rejakul	1.00	100	1
wovlou	1.00	100	1
hidayat20	1.00	100	1
tormiwah	0.25	50	2
arrliinn	0.25	50	2
themanualbot	0.25	50	2
rahuldit	0.00	0	1
sarcasm	0.00	0	1
steemlegend	0.00	0	1
henifah	0.00	0	1
mansurson	0.00	0	1
infinitor	0.00	0	1
bangteh	0.00	0	1
alamboge	0.00	0	1
sanakumar	0.00	0	1
paper-handy	0.00	0	1
funnytale	0.00	0	1
pakganern	0.00	0	1
jassennessaj	0.00	0	1

---

Curator Recommendation Updates

For updates on curator applications and recommendations, please check out @bitrocker2020's post here: https://steemit.com/curation/@bitrocker2020/curie-s-curator-update-update-week-25th-31st-dec

---

Note: All author rewards from this post will be used to fund Curie.
Join us in #curie on Steemit.chat, vote for @curie as witness and follow us @curie!