-1- Translations category: a translation contribution can only be approved after it was merged into the GitHub repository, just like is the case for "development" contributions.

-2- Design category: a design contribution can only be approved after it was merged into the GitHub repository, just like is the case for "development" contributions.

Explanation:
The volume of mostly translation contributions but also design contributions "eats" the Utopian rewards system, yet those contributions hardly ever actually get used / implemented by the Open Source Software repositories. This defeats the mission of Utopian: to stimulate and catalyze Open Source development via rewards for their -valid- contributors.

This proposal will probably not be popular among some translators and design contributors, but it will be popular among good translators and designers that try really hard and do their best, because those contributions will be accepted and used by the repository owners. And anyway: action is needed to save the Utopian mission.