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FAQ Farm, the site that later became known as WikiAnswers when it was bought by Answers.com, was founded by Chris Whitten in 2002.
Answers.com was founded in 1999 by Bob Rosenschein.
The current WikiAnswers / Answers.com contains over 50 million questions and answers in its community-generated database.
Wiki User
∙ 6y ago
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∙ 6y agoChris Whitten is the founder of WikiAnswers.
This site was started in 2002 as FAQ Farm. In late 2004, it converted to a "wiki" system, based on the MediaWiki software created by the people behind Wikipedia. In November 2006 it became part of Answers.com. In January 2007, FAQ Farm became WikiAnswers and was integrated into the resources of Answers.com.
Wiki User
∙ 5y agoThere are many, many authors on this site. It is a wiki, which means that anyone can ask and anyone can answer the questions.
If you are trying to reference the site in your paper, use Answers as the author, and you use the date that you accessed the page for a website in most citation styles, but you can also check the question history for the specific date when the answer was written.
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∙ 9y agoIt was founded in 1999 by Robert S. Rosenschein, an American-Israeli internet entrepreneur.
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∙ 11y agothis person called Chris is the author of answers.com.
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What month was wikianswers founded?
January
How long has WikiAnswers been in existence?
Wikianswers was founded in 2002. For more in-depth information, go to http://www.answers.com/wikianswers
Where was WikiAnswers founded?
WikiAnswers was founded by Chris Whitten in 2002 - and since Chris was the only full time employee at the time, it is safe to say that it was founded wherever he was at the time. Which happened to be upstate New York.
Was Answers founded before WikiAnswers?
Answers.com was launched in early January of 2005. Answers.com is the primary product of the Answers Corporation. Answers Corporation was founded in 1999. WikiAnswers was acquired by Answers Corporation in November of 2006. WikiAnswers was previously FAQ Farm which was founded in 2002. Although Wiki software was added to the website in 2004 the official name of the site began being used in January of 2007. As the question is stated the answer shows that Answers Corporation was founded before WikiAnswers and that Answers.com was founded before WikiAnswers.
Was WikiAnswers invented before YahooAnswers?
Yahoo! Answers was released to the public in December 2005. A site called FAQFarm was founded in 2002. This FAQFarm eventually evolved into WikiAnswers, so WikiAnswers is technically older than Yahoo! Answers.
Is chris whitten the founder of WikiAnswers?
No. Chris Whitten is the creator of WikiAnswers and a new website called WikiTree. Wikipedia was founded by Jimmy Wales.
Who is behind the WikiAnswers?
If you are asking about whom it was that founded the website WikiAnswers it was a gentleman by the name of Chris Whitten. If you are asking whom it is that answers the question of the website WikiAnswers, it is many different people from all walks of life with various areas of knowledge and expertise, just like yourself.
What categories has Techie2013 suggested and gotten for WikiAnswers?
Supervisors: Please do not delete or trash this question. This is used for me to track what categories I have founded.
How old is WikiAnswers?
It was originally founded in 2002 by Chris Whitten as FAQ Farm. In 2004 the Q&A site became a wiki. In November 2006, it was acquired by Answers.com. So as of 2015, WikiAnswers is 13 years old.
What year was WikiAnswers started?
WikiAnswers, previously known as FAQ Farm, was acquired by Answers Corporation in November 2006 and is now part of the Answers.com family. It was founded in 2002 by Chris Whitten, a pioneer in the Q&A arena.
Who is answerscoms creator?
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.
Who founded Wikipedia and wikianwsers and the whole wiki company?
Each of those is a separate company: Jimmy Wales founded Wikipedia in 2001. Wikianswers is an entirely different organization. The first wiki (a type of software) was written by Ward Cunningham.
