It helps people answering questions find questions they might know the answer to.
Provide 1000 contributions to Wikianswers. Answering question, categorizing questions and fixing them.
The purpose of the site wikianswers is to answer your basic knowledge questions like "How do you find the volume of something?"
The purpose for the Unanswered questions is for other members of WikiAnswers to answer any question that other users have about almost everything. That way the people who ask the questions are happy to have help and the people who answer the questions are happy to help.
WikiAnswers currently uses bots to help with categorizing questions, correcting the way questions are asked, adding related link and more. These are simple tasks that can be preformed by bots with a good accuracy rating. These bots however can not answer questions nor can they give advice, this is where the contributor comes in to give WikiAnswers the human aspect.
We encourage users to get contribution points by contributing to the site in a positive way that they enjoy - whether it is answering questions, asking questions, editing questions, editing answers, categorizing questions or anything else on site.
When re-categorizing a question 1 category equals 1 contribution point.
Yes , you can answer the questions on wikianswers.
On WikiAnswers, you just have to wait. Categorizing your question in the appropriate category improves those chances of getting it answered by 50%, and using correct spelling and grammar and making it understandable increases those chances even more.
Because the purpose of the website is to create a common place for people who have questions and people who have knowledge to interact with one another, by asking and answering questions. If unwanted/unnecessary questions are allowed, the main purpose of the website would be defeated. Hence, they are not allowed
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