It could be that you are not logged in. When you ask a question on WikiAnswers, you do receive a "contribution" credit, the total of which is shown on the bio page of registered users.
However, you will not appear on the "Contributor" tab of the Question History page. This currently displays the same edit info as below the answer window. You have to click "view complete history" which takes you to the History tab to the left!
(After 500 contributions, you get the Bronze Contributor badge in place of the contributor badge. And you get a different badge as you reach higher levels.)
The point of WikiAnswers is to ask the entire community of contributors the question, and not just a single contributor.
You can ask another contributor, I tried that once and it really worked.
No. If you ask a question that already exists on the site, it does not count as a contribution.
Ask sensible questions, answer sensible answers, only answer questions if you know the question, and Wikianswers isn't here for jokes and riddles.
A Ruby Contributor is a WikiAnswers user who has reached 500,000 contributions. You can view all of the users who have reached Ruby Contributor status by checking out the related question below.
Yes, many people on WikiAnswers can give advice on an eating disorder. If you ask your problem in a different question and categorize it into the correct category, there is bound to be some WikiAnswers contributor willing to answer your question.
WikiAnswers has no "Contributor of the day"
If you are an anonymous contributor at wikianswers, you participate in wikianswers but without a wikianswers account.
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.
To become a WikiAnswers contributor, which is getting the badge with the Orange Man labeled 'Contributor', you need to make at least 1 contribution. To do so, you can either ask or answer a question, edit a question's categories, split an alternate form a question, change the wording of a question, add a comment in the discussion area of a question, edit your bio page, send a message to someone, tell that a question is the same or different from a suggested question when you ask a question in the search bar, or remove a bad answer or vandalism from a question.
Be warned - if you ask on WikiAnswers, how to hack into WikiAnswers - expect to get blocked from WikiAnswers. Nobody has figured out yet how to hack into WikiAnswers and unblock themselves. Nobody will.
Any time is the best time to ask a question on WikiAnswers.