How will WikiAnswers progress technologically in the future?

Answer 1

Though this question cannot be answered in full for two reasons -- confidentiality and the nature of an always-changing market and technology landscape that drive these decisions -- I can tell you in broad strokes that we will continue to emphasize tools and features that help create high-quality answers, rather than simply piling up high volume of mediocre or low-quality ones. This includes automatic algorithms to filter out vandalism, powerful tools to help Supervisors patrol the site to clean it up and organize its content, as well as community-centric features that will help contributors work together. Many of these aren't technology as much as well-thought-out feature design and improvement of the user experience. But various type of "Artificial Intelligence" certainly do come into play as the design the system to automatically help users along the process, using their own actions as indicators of what they need.