How does swapping questions on WikiAnswers work?

Answer 1

Swapping allows a supervisor to make a preferably-phrased alternate into the primary for a question.

Normally a merge combines a weaker primary with a better one. But where a weaker one has a better answer (or is otherwise required), the merge can be made to the weaker one, then the stronger alternate selected as the primary. On the question history, the promotion of an existing alternate to the primary is shown as a "swap."

Process:

- copy question to be merged to

- go to question to be merged

- merge to selected question

- select alternate and make new primary