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What are the differences between the badges of a Premier Answerer and an Alternates Specialist?
A Premier Answerer are dedicated to reasearching and answering questions. Premier Answerers are often recomended by Site Supervisors for doing the before mentioned tasks. An Alternates Specialist is a Supervisor that is responsible for splitting and merging alternates of questions to increase the functionality of WikiAnswers.
When one question is merged into another on WikiAnswers what happens to the alternates of the existing question?
When merging a question with alternates into another question, the alternates of the merged question are merged into the alternates of the primary question.
What are the differences between a Premier Answerer and an Alternates Specialist?
A Premier Answerer is recognised for their outstanding answers (only Non-Supervisors may receive this badge), whilst an Alternates Specialist is a member of the Vandal Patrol (Supervisors only) that deals with questions with large amounts of alternates, splitting, rewording and recategorizing the alternates.
Which is WikiAnswers in bigger need of - answers or alternates?
The alternates come in like avalanches. What we need most are well thought-out answers and some help organizing (moving questions to their appropriate categories and splitting out alternates that are attached to the wrong question). You can volunteer by contacting the supervisor of your favorite category or checking in on the WikiAnswers forum for more information.
What are alternates on WikiAnswers?
"Alternates" or "alternate wordings" are other ways of phrasing the same exact question on WikiAnswers. When an alternate wording is asked on the site, it redirects you to the primary wording of that question. If an alternate wording is mismatched with a primary wording from which it differs, we should "split" it out into a separate question.
How do you become an Alternates Specialist?
The Alternates Specialist division is a Supervisors' Division of the Vandal Patrol Program.The Alternates Specialists are responsible for the splitting and merging of question alternates in an effort to increase the functionality of the site and properly deal with inappropriate and obscene alternates.If you are a Supervisor (and have graduated from the Mentoring Program), contact the Vandal Patrol Program Coordinator (An8thg) to sign up or contact us at JoinVandalPatrol @ WikiAnswers.com (remove spaces) to get more information. Be sure to include which division you are interested in joining and your birthday.If you are not a Supervisor you must become one and graduate from the Mentoring Program before becoming an Alternates Specialist. How to become a supervisor is listed below.Option 1:See the related links below.
What can you do to get rid of the 'Edit Alternates' on WikiAnswers?
First, you don't want to get rid of the 'Edit Alternates' button on WikiAnswers. However, if you are asking how to get rid of the alternates of a questions that do not belong, simply click the check mark box (once you clicked the 'Edit Alternates' link) for all alternate wordings that do not apply to the main question, then go up to the top and select 'Split'. Do not remove any alternate wordings that are a reworded form of the main question or are basically asking the same thing as the question.
Can more than two questions be merged on WikiAnswers?
Many more than two questions can be merged on WikiAnswers. If the same question can be asked in dozens of ways, they all end up as alternates.
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What is the Bad Spelling and Grammar Tier of WikiAnswers?
The " Bad Spelling/Grammar Tier" of a question's alternates includes all of the alternates that are misspelled or have incorrect grammar. This tier enables us to find more ways of asking a question, directing the user to the correct question format. The tier can hold an unlimited amount of alternates, unlike the first tier.
How do you batch merge in WikiAnswers?
Sadly, there is no supervisor power to batch merge questions yet. There is something similar to this, which is the split and merge feature in the 'Edit Alternates' section of any question. You can click that button to split and merge all selected alternates and move them to another question, all at once; however, the question must already be in the alternates to do so.
Which question on WikiAnswers has the most alternates?
Through 2010, there were "Catch All Questions" that had tens of thousands of alternates. But these were broken up and now exist as categories instead.As alternates are just rephrasings or misspellings of the same question, the number of alternates will be higher where there are1) many ways to phrase the question,2) many synonyms for the words in a question, and/or3) many ways to misspell the words in a question.Anything more than a few dozen will usually mean some of the alternates are there by mistake.However, due to the large number of askers, games questions can accumulate many alternates. To see two examples of how spelling contributes to the growth of alternates, see the two "Poptropica" in the related questions below.
