There have now been four instalments of the Question of the Week, and it's time to review that. Going forward, we should decide:
Do we want to continue with a Question of the Week? If so:
- What can we improve?
- Should we switch from a weekly rhythm to another cadence, e.g. monthly or bi-weekly?
Background is that the community participation has been … spotty. Some weeks seem to have been fairly popular, but other weeks saw little participation outside of a core group. Understandably, there have been repeated calls to terminate the QotW.
My personal opinion is that the QotW is doing OK but not great. Participation seems to be highly dependent on the phase of the moon, but has consistently been at acceptable levels for this to continue. I'd just wish more people would post suggestions.
Aggregated Data for Discussion
Links and notes on influencing events:
- 1: question, timeline.
- 2: question, timeline. Significant other meta discussion during this week, didn't become hot meta post until mid-week.
- 3: question, timeline. Was made a featured question.
- 4: question, timeline. Featured call to action to vote for the question itself.
Question votes over the week:
Q | S M T W T F S S | Total | Views
1 | 3 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 | 7 | 210
2 | 1 1 3 3 0 1 1 0 | 10 | 195
3 | 4 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 | 8 | 219
4 | 8 1 0 3 0 0 1 0 | 13 | 174
Votes taken from the question timeline, views read from the sidebar. Votes after the end of the week were not considered. Note that views are not shown over time, and therefore also include views after the end of the week.
Final vote distribution on answers:
Q | #A | Answers
1 | 3 | 6, 5, 4
2 | 4 | 5, 3, 3, 2
3 | 3 | 6, 6, 3
4 | 5 | 8, 4, 4, 3, 3
Suggestion count per user:
9, 4, 1, 1