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How do you add a 'Related link' on WikiAnswers?
Look to the left <---- See the line that says "Add related links"? Click on that one, and you will find a form where you fill in the URL and title of the website that you w…ould like to link to. For a detailed, step-by-step guide on how to add a Related link to an answer, see the Related link below, which will take you to the pertinent information in the Help Center of WikiAnswers. (MORE)
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Who answers all these questions on WikiAnswers?
Everyone! Anyone can share their knowledge or ask questions on WikiAnswers. That's what makes it a WIKI. If you know the answer to an unanswered question, you can share it. If… you see an answer that you can expand on, you can edit it. If you see an answer that's just flat-out incorrect, you can update it. We encourage users to research answers thoroughly and to share links (see the menu on the left "Add related links") so others can verify the sources. More takes from WikiAnswers contributors: It could be anyone at all, even your next door neighbor. WikiAnswers is a collaborative effort. There are many people working out the answers here at the site. Your question was answered by a WikiSupervisor who happened to see it. Join the effort! Cruise a category that interests you and find a question you know something about. Everyone is an expert on something... find your category.Users do. That is the beauty of this site. We ask our own questions and answer those of each other. It is a fairly easy way to share information. Now, since this is composed of user-generated content, you can't be sure that every single answer is true. This site is not a substitute for research, but it is a good and helpful place to start. The community of everyday people like you and me here on WikiAnswers answers the questions. You will need to sign up if you want to answer questions yourself. Any contributor can come to WikiAnswers and browse questions. If they know the answer, they can answer it. Some people research their answers, just like me. I sometimes know the answer too. And there are people that work in the field, have hobbies and life experiences and read a lot. Everyone has something useful to contribute. WikiAnswers is a site where you and anyone who's willing to help out can join efforts and write answers to the questions. If the person who answered a question is a registered user, you'll be able to see who answered (and award them a trust point -- if they have earned it, of course). Other people who want to be helpful, like me. Anyone can answer or improve any question on WikiAnswers. Anybody! You can contribute any knowledge you have to help answer other people's questions. Are you a mechanic who likes music and studying European history? Are you a pet owner looking to start your own business? Different people answer different questions. I try to answer as many questions as I can in the time I spend on WikiAnswers. Anyone who visits can ask questions, and also can answer questions. We are ordinary people from many different countries; most of the regulars have become addicted to the site because it is so much fun to find questions to answer, and to interact with others who come to visit. We are not paid, and we are not recruited. There may be some people connected with support or site development who get compensation of some kind; I don't really know for sure. We were talking about a possible conference at some time; I think that idea is on the back burner at this point. Lots of people answer the questions on WikiAnswers. That's what a "wiki" is all about. Answers are collaboratively written by volunteers in the spirit of growing information for the public good. All users are invited to answer questions or improve existing answers. Supervisors on the site edit the answers when necessary to improve spelling, grammar, and content (when improper). People who are nice and know the answer! Yes, I am just an everyday person that tries to find answers for people like you! The answers come from humans like you. There are no computers involved in answering the questions. So since humans answer the questions, that means you can answer them too. All of the answers come from people like you and everyone else. So that means anyone can add or make answers to the questions. All registered and unregistered users from around the world write the answers on WikiAnswers.com. Yes. That's the whole idea. The more people we have involved, the more answers we will have. Any registered member can submit an answer. Most answers are either things the answerer already knows, or can be found easily elsewhere on the Internet. People who go to ask a question and then find a question they can answer - in other words, anyone!!! WikiAnswers is "authored" by its community of users. As WikiAnswers contributors, we ask and answer each other's questions. You might say this: "We - the people of the Internet - are the authors of this site." Most of the users of WikiAnswers are dedicated to building and improving the site. Different people with different interests. I'm sitting at home, eating some soup and answering the questions that interest me. Answers are written by generous individuals like you and me, who volunteer their time in an effort to facilitate the learning experience. WikiAnswers gets its answers by people like you and me answering them. I just answered this question by looking for an unanswered question, and this popped up so I answered it. WA gets its answers from contributors around the world. They may be an expert or specialist in an area of knowledge; they might be a general genius willing to share anything and everything they know; or they might be the average person on the street with access to the Internet and some vague idea of what the right answer to a question is. Some answers are researched thoroughly in order to get the most correct information possible; others are just a quick note made by someone who watched a documentary once. The answers come from contributors (with and without accounts) who have the knowledge to answer your question. WikiAnswers has contributors from all over the world share their knowledge on WikiAnswers by having them answer questions. Other people on WikiAnswers and members who really know how to change and/or improve an answer. Lots of different people do. Anyone who wants to. It is the Wiki way. Contributors from various countries all over the world. The participants answer the questions. Anyone can enter or edit an answer. This allows people to provide different viewpoints, provide different references and share personal experiences. That is why it is such a valuable tool. The members of this community, like you and me, are the ones who answer the questions. No one is forced to answer the questions. It is done on a voluntary basis and people are free to answer as many questions as they like. People who know the answers just write the answers - like I just did, answering this question. The questions on WikiAnswers are answered by others who come to the website. Some of them may be people who actually know the answers, or who take the time to look them up, while others are just kids who think typing silly stuff in as answers is a fun thing to do, not realizing the problem that causes for others who are looking for real answers. The users on WikiAnswers do. People who sign up like me. Anyone can do it! Contributors from all over the world. In many cases the answers are provided by professionals or people who are interested in the topic. Check the bio pages for contributors to see who they are and what their area of expertise is. A lot of different people do. My son does - for homework! This site is a Wiki. As such, anyone who comes to the site is free to submit questions and answers, or to edit material left by others. There are millions of individuals who visit WikiAnswers, and probably millions of individuals have made contributions to the answers you find here. WikiAnswers get its answers from contributors who, in turn, get their answers from either experience or research. Anybody who wants to. This site is largely "staffed" by volunteers all over the world. Everyone WikiAnswers users answer questions, as I am right now. Anybody who knows the answer to the question. The members of WikiAnswers answer all the questions; I guess that some people are just knowledgeable & know things. Since this a community site, people are constantly asking their own questions and answering other people's. We are all sharing of our knowledge and opinions on basically any topic. Members of the public who happen to run cross your question and know the answer to it. Anyone that accesses the website is able to answer a question. In the case that users have information they wish to share, they are able to add or improve upon the answer. The users here are from different countries, of different ages and have varying degrees of experience, knowledge and personal points of view. Some users have specific knowledge, e.g., professionals who work in a specific industry, or students who study particular courses. And there is everyone else who takes the time to answer (or improve upon) various questions on the WikiAnswers site. Anyone who feels called to do it. If the answers are spam or are wrong we try to fix it. People who have seen the site, members who have signed up and the Supervisors. Volunteers may have education in a specific area, or a question may be on a subject they enjoy. Some volunteers are professionals, or answer questions that pertain to their daily work. And contributors are good at doing research online or off-line. Other contributors simply have life experience and accumulated knowledge, which gives them a wide area of personal knowledge. Other users on WikiAnswers are free to answer any question. Anyone can ask or answer anyone's questions. That's what puts the "wiki" in "WikiAnswers." Many different users are giving the answers. There are even some unregistered users who answer questions. If they are a registered user, you can see their credit at the bottom of their answer to a question, and when you click on their name, it should lead to their profile. If it is an unregistered user, it should display a number, for example, 222.543.662.46 (not a real IP). That is how you know who is giving the answer to any particular question. Any random person could be answering your questions. If you look under an answer, it tells you who posted it. Hundreds and hundreds of users! WikiAnswers operates using the wiki concept. This means that anybody is able to contribute, without even having to create an account! Questions are answered mainly by generous contributors in the online community, as well as by the full-time WikiAnswers staff. Many people can answer this question. Many people can edit or alter it. A good answer can be abused by a "vandal" and altered. This is the Wiki way. The greater the number of "trust points" the answerer has, the more likely the answer is correct - as best as the answerer knows. Average people from all walks of life. This site is for all people to ask questions and also answer questions that they feel they have knowledge in. There are a lot of questions out there that need answering and there are a lot of people that have the answers. Hopefully someone that has information about your question will see it and give you an answer. Like I just did. Anybody and everybody. Think of it like asking the guy up the street or the class swot. There's a world of experience out there and you get to tap in to it. Of course, subjective questions get subjective answers and those opinions and ideas should be evaluated accordingly. The community writes them. That includes me, possibly you, and of course thousands of other people with knowledge about the questions asked. The answers to the questions on WikiAnswers are provided largely by members of the community (and some by WikiAnswers staff). Anyone with access to a computer could be writing answers to questions on WikiAnswers. People who have seen the site; members who have signed up; and the Supervisors. Various people are answering all of the questions on the site. Thousands of different people ask and answer questions. You do. I do. He does. She does. In short, everyone. More accurately, anyone who takes the time to seriously consider that every question asked in a serious manner has an answer that deserves to be shared. Random people who want to help out a little - like me. Many people who answer questions are experts on the subject and have first-hand knowledge. Others research questions online or by using other sources of reference. Questions are answered by the community, allowing for people with wide-ranging knowledge on specific topics to answer questions they know about. If you ask, it shall be answered. Questions are answered by real people from all over the world. Be sure your question is easily understood, and place it in the most appropriate categories to aid in getting an answer more quickly. Could be anyone... including you. You can see who the last person to edit a particular answer was by looking just underneath the answer itself. Their username is also a link to their member home page, which may (or may not) provide more details on who they are. Members and administrations of WikiAnswers. The members of this community like you and me are the ones who answer the questions. No one is forced to answer the questions. It is done on a voluntary basis and people are free to answer as many questions as they like. Random people who want to help out a little like me. There are hundreds - maybe thousands! - of others like you (and me) who have a WA account, and we answer the questions like I just answered yours. Questions on WikiAnswers are answered by many people; we have over 1,000 Supervisors as well as millions of contributors from across the world, from many different backgrounds and professions. We are also open to questions and answers from IP addresses; therefore, anyone in the world can answer a question! Random people and experienced people that want to make a difference on WikiAnswers. They want to help people and let others learn. WikiAnswers is a collaboration of people worldwide answering the questions. Some people have common sense to answer them, and other people (including me ;) have got skills to find the answer on the Internet. A good many people that work in particular fields or are educated in special areas may roam around certain topics using their knowledge to answer questions. Many people on here that ask questions may spend some time answering questions as well. And then there are the supervisors that watch over particular topics and those that roam around many topics that will spend some time answering questions. Answers to questions asked here are the product of a large community effort. Over 6 million registered users (and millions of unregistered users) answer all these questions. Questions are answered by real people who wish to contribute. Anybody may have a go. Contributors often have some specific knowledge that they are happy to share with others. WikiAnswers.com is people asking questions and people answering them. Computers don't answer them, or have paid people do it. Just people who like to do it and we do it for free. The general public from across the globe. People of all ages, from all sorts of backgrounds around the world, answer questions on this site, based on their knowledge and experiences. People from all over the world answer questions like yours! All of the WikiAnswers contributors contribute in asking and answering questions. Anyone who has access to the Internet can post answers on Answers.com. One of WikiAnswers' many users. Anyone who signs on to WikiAnswers can post or edit any answer. Generally, however, questions are answered by those users that feel comfortable with the subject matter. Many people can answer this question. Many people can edit or alter it. A good answer can be abused by a "vandal" and altered. This is the Wiki way. The greater the "trust point" the more likely the answer is correct as best as the answerer knows. --- People from around the world answer questions on WikiAnswers. There is no single 'author' - questions are asked and answered by millions of people across the world. anyone can answer!! as long as you know the answer you can answer a question! you dont need an account to ask and answer questions, even i dont have an account! but you do need an account to comment on the discussion page of a question and answer. and to edit an answer, i think. so if you see a question that needs an answer, and you know the answer, click the orange button that says "answer it!"Questions posted to WikiAnswers are answered by anyone from anywhere in the world who can use an Internet connection to this site. All answers on WikiAnswers are given by voluntary contributors. Nobody has to answer anything unless they want to give up their own free time to do so. They always make a personal choice to give an answer and then what to say. When they answer a question, they usually try to give as much information as they think is relevant to the actual question asked. You will have a much better chance of getting an early answer to your question if you place it into the right Category! Unless you do that, your question may not be answered for a long time because it won't be seen by contributors who know about the subject of the question. If it was placed into the wrong Category your question would have to wait until a Supervisor finds it and moves it to an appropriate Category where it will be seen by the someone who may wish to contribute an answer. Why do any contributors write answers here anyway? The main reason is that they are really interested in the topics of the questions and feel they have some relevant knowledge and experience which they wish to share with other people. Users who sign up to the site and know the answer to your question are those who post responses to the questions. Also, Supervisors and Staff answer questions. (MORE)
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How do you add extra information on WikiAnswers?
You can add extra information for questions by using the provide additional info through a web link option just above the answer text area. You can use that and add links tha…t can provide further information about the question. (MORE)
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Can you earn money by answering questions on WikiAnswers?
Earning Satisfaction No, you can't earn money. What you can earn, though, is the feeling of satisfaction by giving good answers, and thereby helping those who're asking the qu…estions. Other responses from the wealth of our contributors:Much to many people's disappointment, you cannot get money for answering questions (or any other contributions) on WikiAnswers; it is strictly volunteer work.NOTE: Community Assistants are the only paid members of WikiAnswers, as employees of the Answers Corporation. For more information on jobs at WikiAnswers, please see the related link below. (MORE)
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What is the meaning of a 'protected question' on WikiAnswers?
A 'protected question' is a question that you temporarily cannot answer or edit. There are two reasons a question is protected on WikiAnswers: 1. The question is a catch-all…. Catch all questions are where we "catch" potentially harmful questions or questions that violate our Terms of Use to keep them from obtaining potentially harmful or illegal answers that will violate our Terms of Use. We keep these questions in a safe place - the catch all - rather than deleting them from the database. These questions generally remain protected indefinitely. 2. The question has become a debate. This includes questions with answers that may contain inflammatory remarks that are being "updated" by various users, which, in turn, creates a debate. WikiAnswers is not a debate forum. It is a question and answer - social knowledge - website. These questions are likely to be unprotected after some period of time - when users have had a chance to cool off and move on from the topic - in order to reopen the question to improvements for a better, updated answer. If you feel that a protected question should become unprotected, please contact Reopen @ answers.com (remove spaces). (MORE)
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What is the funniest question and answer you have ever seen on WikiAnswers?
WikiAnswers is home to many funny questions and answers. Browse the Most Amusing Questions Ever Asked on WikiAnswers category for a good laugh: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/FAQ/…3246 (MORE)
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Why do people ask rhetorical questions on WikiAnswers?
Answer People ask weird questions or rhetorical questions because it is fun just to see what the answer is. Just knowing weird facts gives people more fun in their live…s. (MORE)
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Where can you find Tagalog questions on WikiAnswers?
Tagalog questions are kept in the Mga tanong sa Tagalog category, which you can find here: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/FAQ/8742. (Tagalog questions should all go there, and not …be placed in other categories. You could also visit the Tagalog site at http://tl.wiki.answers.com/, but that site is not being updated, so it will look a lot different. (MORE)
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Why do people ask dumb questions on WikiAnswers?
Some askers are children who ask strange and silly questions. Perhaps teenagers or adults might think it's a dumb question when it's actually most likely an innocent child jus…t being him or her self. Sometimes it is a problem with language, there are many people from all over the world asking questions and getting answers from WikiAnswers and some have less command of the English language than others. They may be using a translation tool to phrase the question in English for them and the intended question does not always come through the online translation tools. Sometimes people are being funny or asking rhetorical questions to see how others answer. Other times the question may seem dumb to you, but to others it could be very serious. So be diplomatic in your answers and remember that no questions are dumb questions, unless you already know the answer to it. WikiAnswers contributors work very hard to give good answers to all questions with these possibilities in mind. (MORE)