Yes, the Community Assistants do get paid.
Not PaidPeople who answer questions on WikiAnswers do not get paid. They answer questions because they enjoy sharing knowledge, helping people and being a part of an amazing Q&A site.
If you enjoy giving back to the community with nothing in return, becoming a supervisor on WikiAnswers would be volunteer work perfect for you! Supervisors on WikiAnswers do not get paid with cash.
There is a Wikianswers headquarters that is located in New York City where people actually work for this site and are paid. These are the only people that earn money because Wikianswers is a volunteer site that rewards badges to their users that make significant contributions to the site.
While there are paid staff that may answer questions on occasion, they are being paid for specific areas of work related to the site and its maintenance. And you can win prizes with the contests!
Unless you are a paid employee of WikiAnswers, you will not be paid for your contributions. WikiAnswers is a wiki, a community site that people contribute to because they want to, not for payment.You can, of course, earn prizes in some of the various WikiAnswers competitions (for example, you can win book vouchers).
No, they are regular contributors who do this as a hobby. Community Assistants' (CA's) work in the WikiAnswers office and they do. It's their job.
Trust points do not entirely help you get hired to work for WikiAnswers, since actually getting paid to work for WikiAnswers is different from the amount of trust points you received online.
The administrators of WikiAnswers who have all the powers of supervisors and more are Community Assistants. They are the ones who actually get paid to work on WikiAnswers, and you must apply for a job at Answers Corp. and request to work with WikiAnswers.
WikiAnswers has thousands of contributors (volunteers) who are 13 years old. However, they are not being paid for their contributions, as they are volunteers on the site. WikiAnswers is not hiring 13 year olds to work on the site to be paid at this time.
No, WikiAnswers does not employ us, therefore do not pay us. We work here as volunteers because we like to help out others, and not for payment.
Regular contributors don't get paid.