Yes you can join The Initiates Program if you are a Premier Answerer.
However, if you graduate from the program and accept an invitation to become a supervisor then you will lose your Premier Answerer status.
Contributors can only be a Premier Answerer or a supervisor and not both.
No, you will not lose any of your current badges if you join The Initiates Program. However, if you are promoted to Supervisor when you graduate, the TIP member badge is removed from your profile, since by graduating from the program you are no longer a TIP member. Also if you are a premier answerer, you will lose the premier answerer badge when you become a Supervisor, because due to technicalities you can only have either the premier answerer or supervisor badge.
Yes, you can, although you will not remain a Premier Answerer. You will have their Premier Answerer badge removed and instead receive the Supervisor badge on your profile.
Yes, you can be a Special Project Assistant and a Premier Answerer.
The abbreviation of The Initiates Program is TIP.
The leader of The Initiates Program is Jsarino.
No, I'm afraid not. If you are a Premier Answerer, you cannot be a Supervisor at the same time.(See Related question.)
No, you get the Premier Answerer by answering questions with all your brain power, intelligence and thinking skills. When a supervisor sees a normal contributor with great questions and answers, they will recommend that contributor to be a Premier Answerer in WikiAnswers. Most of the Premier Answerers in this site are experts of a particular subject. For example, if someone is great at science and environmental change, a supervisor will recommend that particular person to be a Premier Answerer.
The minimum age for joining The Initiates Program is 15.
A Premier Answerer is someone who spends the bulk of their time and contribution on WikiAnswers researching and writing answers. They are recommended by Supervisors to become them. See the Related Link.
The "Premier Answerer" badge is only for non-supervisors, as it was thought that non-supervisors deserve a special badge to recognize their fantastic answers.
When a supervisor finds a normal contributor who they think have qualified for the premier answerer badge the supervisor can recommend them via a link that only supervisors have. A supervisor will go through the user's contributions to make sure that they have had quality and well thought out contributions. Please do not ask to become a premier answerer, you must be nominated by a supervisor.
Yes, you must be a member of WikiAnswers in order to participate in The Initiates Program.