For more information about the preferred style of both questions and answers, please see the Style Guide. A link can be found in the Related Links section of this answer, as well as in the Help Center.
It is impossible for WikiAnswers to be in an encyclopedic format because WikiAnswers was created on the fact that no one wanted to find out information through encyclopedias, but rather just want a straight, and short, answer to their question. Answers.com is in the encyclopedic formati, while WikiAnswers has the human, short side of the answer.
MPEG-4 (.mp4) videos are the preferred format, .m4v, .mov
Some WikiAnswers users like to format already existing answers to questions on the website.
Everything is in wiki format because the goal of WikiAnswers was for anyone to edit anything, and the only format that allowed for that was the Wiki website format.
Yes, Wikipedia is similar to WikiAnswers in the fact that there are users who can edit anything, and that they both use the Wiki format.
Wiki Answers is not a video sharing site.
WikiAnswers uses all three, but "ok" (the third example) is an example of poor punctuation, so the other two are preferred.
The preferred format for latitude and longitude values in ArcGIS is decimal degrees. This format expresses coordinates as a single value in degrees, with positive values for north latitude and east longitude, and negative values for south latitude and west longitude.
Because it uses the WIKI format where any one can answer and ask questions.
It was changed to improve the look and loading time.
WikiAnswers and WikipediaWikipedia uses an encyclopedia format, with longer, more inclusive articles. WikiAnswers uses a Q&A format, with shorter, more precise answers. Ownership:WikiAnswers is owned by Answers.com. Wikipedia is owned by the Wikipedia Foundation. Answers.com is a for-profit organization whereas Wikipedia Foundation is not-for-profit.
Ipod's "preferred format" is H.264, but it will take standard Mpeg-4. Itunes will convert Mpeg-4 into a format that the Ipod can handle.