WikiTree is entirely free. It does not charge anyone for membership.
Expenses are paid by modest ads on public pages.
WikiTree does not cost anything to use.
First, you login. After creating an account, you are sent to your Navigation Home Page. This is a good place to start every time you use WikiTree.
This figure has not been tracked.
WikiTree is entirely Internet-based. It was created online. The creator of WikiTree, Chris Whitten, lives in New York State.
There are over 2,120,000 profiles on WikiTree as of August, 2011.
WikiTree has over 34,400 registered members. The site is seen by many more people who don't register. It currently gets about 200,000 visitors per month.
Yes, there are some simple forms available on wikitree.
Yes, it is very possible to get addicted to WikiTree. It is possibly to get addicted to anything if you enjoy it enough.
There are many desktop application programs that will run GEDCOM files. However, this question asks if one or some of these programs are know to work better than others with GEDCOM files created by the WikiTree online program. This question assumes there is no personal, desktop version of WikiTree.
No. At this point, WikiTree is only available in English. Profiles can be written in any language but the instructions and field names are in English. WikiTree does plan to add international versions later.
Yes. WikiTree is entirely free. There is no "premium" membership. Expenses are paid by modest ads on public pages.
WikiTree.com was started in 2008. Chris Whitten began working on WikiTree after leaving Answers.com at the end of 2007.