While it may seem like the more members who join the site, the more vandals join, the important thing to consider is that as the site grows, so do the features available for keeping it gaining in quality, as well as the number of dedicated volunteers who join programs (like the Vandal Patrol and Quality control).
Answers.com|WikiAnswers is building the world's largest knowledge database. The benefit then, is gaining and sharing knowledge.
As of 2009, no, Yahoo Answers still has more traffic. However, WikiAnswers has been steadily gaining.
It is a great online database where users can ask and answer questions. Sharing your knowledge and gaining knowledge from others is the key ingredient in the cake of WikiAnswers!
That depends on what you mean by Answers.com. The question and answer part of the site (WikiAnswers) was originally FAQ Farm, and was founded by Chris Whitten. Bob Rosenschein founded Gurunet, which became Answers.com, which then bought FAQ Farm and turned it into WikiAnswers. David Karandish started AnnounceMedia and a group of companies that eventually bought Answers.com, including WikiAnswers. Each part of the history of the site has a different founder, but if you are referring to the Q&A content, the original founder was Chris Whitten.
No, it is not easy. There are only a few Bug Catchers on WikiAnswers, as it requires frequent and quality bug reports.
Yes, they can be found all around the site.
WikiAnswers, actually, is more popular. Recently, WikiAnswers has surpassed Yahoo! in visitors (WikiAnswers was already superior quality wise).View the related link below, and view the second graph in the related link to see why WikiAnswers is more popular.
Yes, people change answers on WikiAnswers all of the time. It is to better the quality of the answer. So, yes, it is completely true.
A trade off usually refers to losing one quality or aspect of something in return of gaining another quality or aspect.
As long as you are a member of WikiAnswers you can be an SPA (Special Projects Assistant). You will need to be a member of WikiAnswers who is 13-18 years old with 50 quality non message board contributions to be a part of WIT.
A trade off usually refers to losing one quality or aspect of something in return of gaining another quality or aspect.
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