How do you become a Supervisor on WikiAnswers?

Answer 1

Introduction

First, understand what the responsibilities are in becoming a Supervisor. Check out these links to see some relevant information on what is involved and what the Supervisor community is like.

• What_do_Volunteer_Supervisors_do_on_WikiAnswers
• http://wiki.answers.com/help/supervisor_community

You also need to contribute regularly and prove your participation on WikiAnswers. Do you like to contribute to one area specifically? Do you enjoying editing all over the site? Either way, as long as you are consistently active, you are on your way to becoming a Supervisor.

Floating Supervisor and Category Supervisor

A Floating Supervisor is a supervisor that has all of the tools a Category Supervisor has, without the responsibility of overseeing a certain area of this website. Starting off as a Floating Supervisor is a good way to begin.

When you are ready, you can contact a Supervisor and tell them that you want to become one. If they think you are qualified, they will recommend that you become one to The Initiates Program (see below) or a Community Assistant; and you can decide if you'd like to Supervise a category or be a Floating Supervisor across the site.

To be a category supervisor, you should be knowledgeable about the category. Bear in mind however that you are more likely to be asked to join or referred to The Initiates Program by the management when they receive the recommendation (read more below).

Programs

A common way to become a supervisor is to enlist in the SPA (Special Project Assistant) program. When an SPA, you will be assigned a certain amount of tasks regarding different aspects of WikiAnswers, such as splitting alternates and recategorizing questions, to see if you are responsible enough to become a supervisor.

The newest and fastest way to become a Supervisor is to join The Initiates Program (TIP). This program is especially dedicated to training new Supervisors, you will be assigned a mentor and given tasks in basic tools around the site to assess your knowledge of the tools and the procedures as well as your ability to follow the guidelines and Terms of Use. In fact, many people who request to be a Supervisor are told to join TIP first.

TIP has a 98% success rate. Meaning 98% of everybody who completes the program becomes a Supervisor.

When you become a Supervisor you will automatically be enlisted in a program called the Mentoring Program. You will be taught by a mentor how to use the Supervisor tools, learn the rules for each Supervisor tool and learn the proceedures you need to follow. You will be required to complete this program before you can do most things that Supervisors can do (ie - join Vandal Patrol, etc).

Requirements

In addition, you must be at least 15 years old to become eligible to be invited to become a WikiAnswers Supervisor. You must be able to demonstrate the social skills and maturity to interact well with others.

Any past warnings on your account will also be taken into account when deciding whether you are suitable to become a Supervisor. If you are known to have been immature in the last six months, your chances, to be frank, are very slim.

Requirements to become a Supervisor:

• You must be at least 15 years of age.
• Ask at least three questions.

  (You can ask anything, whether or not you know the answer.)

• Contribute at least 10 answers to questions.
• Make at least 15 assorted edits, eg. improving questions, moving them, adding related questions and links, etc.

Sometimes you will be required to join TIP first. Joining TIP has additional requirements including the above:

• You must not be a current or past Supervisor.
• You must not have a previous blocked (banned) account.
• You must not have a serious warning on your account (such as cyberbullying or illegal acts). Minor warnings (links in answers, signing answers, etc) are fine as long as you have acknowledged them.

Supervisors need to understand how WikiAnswers works. By completing these requirements you get a better feel of how WikiAnswers works.

Joining the team

When you have met the requirements and are ready to take the next step, email either:

• Supervisor@WikiAnswers.com
• TIP@WikiAnswers.com

You only need to email one, not both.

Be sure to include your interest in becoming either a Category or Floating Supervisor and provide your username. Your contributions are then reviewed, and you are contacted as soon as possible. It helps if you join other programs before you apply. Programs like TIP (The Initiates Program), WIT (Wiki Influential Teens), CO (Community Outreach), and/or SPA all help your cause.

(For more information on the ins and outs of being a Supervisor, see the Related links, as well as the Related question.)

Answer 2

List of WikiAnswers Supervisors

You can see the complete list of WikiAnswers supervisors by going to wiki.answers.com/Q/WikiFAQs:Supervisor_Team. You can click on each supervisor's username to reach their profile or to navigate to their message board.

Answer 3

This is what a supervisor is expected to do on the site, and how they are expected to behave:

• To not abuse the powers given to them as a supervisor.

• When answering a question, always do their best and make it as full as possible.

• Trash any questions that break Wiki policy, don't have enough information to be answered, or just aren't serious into the appropriate catch-all.

Supervisor's can request a mentor to guide them through the first steps of being a supervisor. You can tell which users are mentors by seeing the "mentor" badge on their profile page.

As you may be aware, supervisors get powers that other users don't!

These powers include:

• Merging duplicate questions: This is where, if you see a question that is asking the same as another question that exists already, you merge them togetherhttp://wiki.answers.com/help/merging

• Trashing questions: This is a powerful tool which should NOT be abused.

• Batch-recategorizing: This is where, instead of one-by-one, you can re- categorize several questions at once into the same category. This is a quick and easy way of getting contributions, but, like all of your special powers, should not be abused, as it is a powerful tool which, if in the hands of a vandal could do some serious damage which would take a long time to clear up.

• Reverting answers: This is simply reverting an answer to a previous version. This is done if a perfectly good answer is erased and replaced by a load of rubbish!

• Warning and blocking users: Supervisors have the privilege of warning vandals (registered or IP Addresses) and blocking them if their contributions are consistently not up to scratch or are plain nonsense. You should usually give at least 2 official warnings before blocking the user.

There is probably more information about being a supervisor that I haven't mentioned, so you can mail a supervisor for more info, or a mentor, or both! I'm sure they will be happy to help!

Answer 4

The Managing Editor is the person who runs things within the WikiReviewers. It is not a volunteer position, and the position is not currently open. There are other positions within the group available to sign up for. They are Literary Editor, Archive Researchers, Copy Editor, and Editor at Large.

If you are interested in joining the WikiReviewers, please e-mail WikiReviewers@WikiAnswers.com For more information, see the related question below.

Answer 5

It all depends on the person, each person is different such as for example I earned Supervisor in a matter of three weeks, however, as I said, each person is different. For the most part, contributing and making wonderful contributions will get someone the status, however, do note that before someone gets status, each member must be sent to the higher-ups for observation, he or she will then be observed to see if the other Supervisor who recommended him or her actually was right in recommending them.

Answer 6

See: http://wiki.answers.com/help/vandal_patrol

The Program Coordinator for the Vandal Patrol is user:an8thg. To get more information, send an email to JoinVandalPatrol @ WikiAnswers.com (remove spaces). Be sure to include your username, which division you are interested in joining and your birthday.

Answer 7

You must have a certain number of Contributions and you must have a limit on how many warnings/blocks you have. To find out this, you may visit the Help Center.