Every category has 3 list of contributors whose names would be displayed.
* Top organizer * Top answerer * Top contributors (In Contributor Hall of Fame) An organizer is one who edits questions, re-categorizes them into proper categories, merges/splits questions etc.
An answerer is one who answers questions
Both organizing and answering count as contributions.
For each category, the list of wikianswers users who have done the most contributions would be visible in the category home page. The answerer's and organizers can be seen on the category home page directly, and top contributors can be seen by clicking the "Contributor Hall of Fame" link.
By making lot of contributions to the website and to the thousands of categories available you can become a top contributor/answerer/organizer.
The closest status is a Premier Answerer.(See the Related question.)
To become a top answerer for WikiAnswers follow Wiki protocol, be polite, and know how to do research.
There is currently no prize for being a top contributor.
You will have to answer a lot of questions! I suggest you don't because the people who get top ten waste all of their life doing it.
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.
You just ask or answer a question, and you automatically become a contributor. If you mean how do you get the badge that says "contributor," you have to sign up for the site. Any registered user who hasn't moved on to a different badge will have the contributor badge.
The top answerer for May 2010 was 4Jays with 5595 answers.
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 current top answerer, with 70,489 answers as of November, 15, 2011, is USCitizen.
Depending on the popularity of the category, it may or may not be at all difficult to make enough contributions to be listed as a Top Contributor of a category. As such, being a Top Contributor in and of itself doesn't mean much. It's the quality of your contributions, not the quantity, that will help you "earn your mark."
I would like to think that i am. Since I have become the q and a queen.
The nominations are sent to Community Assistants who review a contributor's contributions before naming a contributor a Premier Answerer.