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An "alternate" is another phrasing of the question, or the same question with spelling mistakes. These are "merged" into another question, so that if someone asks the question with one spelling or phrasing, they will be shown the main question and answer.
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Who are all of the Alternate Assistants of WikiAnswers?
Please click on the related links below to view the Alternate Assistant Organisers & Members.
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 be an Alternate Assistant of the month?
Each month Tom Bomb (AA Coordinator) chooses the Alternate Assistant who has put the most effort into their tasks as AA of the month. He then awards the user with a graphic for their WikiAnswers profile page.Please see the related link below for previous winners.Please note that Alternate Assistants is an unofficial WikiAnswers group and is not supported by WikiAnswers itself.
How do you add an alternate to a question without contributing to WikiAnswers?
Anti-Contributing to WikiAnswersTo add an alternate to a question without counting it as a contribution point, then ask a question on WikiAnswers. Before you officially submit the question, you can edit it. After you edit and submit it, your pre-edited question will be one of its alternates.
Why should you split alternate wordings on WikiAnswers?
If the alternate wording is "Is Casting Crowns a Christian band?" for the question "Who is the drummer of Casting Crowns?" They need to be split because they are two different questions.
Can you move an alternate question on WikiAnswers directly to Related Questions?
No, there is currently no way to directly move an alternate to the Related Questions section of the answer. If the alternate is not the same as the question (just another way to word it), please split it off and then add it as a Related Question if necessary.
Is there a way to revert back to a previous question in WikiAnswers?
WikiAnswers supervisors can set an alternate wording of a question to be the primary wording. The primary wording will then become an alternate wording of the new primary question. Supervisors can also revert answers back to their previous versions.You can read more about becoming a supervisor at the link below.
What is the meaning of 'Alternate Wordings' on WikiAnswers?
Alternate wordings are different ways of writing a question. An example is: "What are alternate wordings?" and "What is an alternate wording?". Both questions are trying to ask the same thing, so when two like questions are merged together, one becomes an alternate wording, so when someone types in that different wording in the ask bar, they will get redirected to the actual, grammatically correct question.
Why does splitting a question on Wikianswers count as asking a question?
Splitting an alternate wording from a parent question is counted in the "Organization" type of contributions.
How do you add alternate wordings to questions on WikiAnswers?
On the left toolbar, click on 'Edit Alternates' under the 'Question tools'. At the bottom of the page, under 'Add new alternate wordings', type in the question reworded. Also, alternate wordings are created by saying a question is the same as another when asking a new question.
Why when you split a question and look for its history it doesn't say who created it Only who split it?
This is because WikiAnswers only tracks who creates a question, and not who originally created that wording in the history. It would be nearly impossible to have a history for every alternate wording, and who created it. Also, since it will cause performance issues, WikiAnswers only tracks who created an individual question, and not an individual alternate wording.
What is the best way to merge two questions on WikiAnswers when one of the answers is well researched but the other is so bad that it should be deleted and its question made into an alternate?
Send it to a supervisor. He would be able to revert the wrong answer and add it as an alternate to the correct answer.
