Community
The WikiAnswers.com Community is made up of various online volunteers, most commonly acting as Contributors and Supervisors. Other classifications include Premier Answerers, Special Project Assistants, Mentors, Bug Catchers and those participating in special site-wide programs such as Vandal Patrol, Community Outreach, WikiReviewers, and WikiAnswers’ Influential Teens (WIT). All volunteers are able to contribute in various ways and personalize their user experience through profiles, watchlists, etc.
Contributors form the majority of the WikiAnswers.com community and engage in the site's primary activities: asking and answering questions, improving existing answers and collaborating with others. Each individual addition and edit that a person makes is called a 'contribution', which correlates to one’s total number of contributions and helps form the site’s Top Contributors lists. Participants can also give others “Trust Points” for demonstrating trustworthy and worthwhile contributions.
When a Contributor has reached a certain number of contributions or "Trust Points", or is deemed by Supervisors to have made a significant contribution to the website, they are eligible to receive special recognition awards in the form of profile badges (e.g. 5000 contributions is a Silver Level display emblem). Contributors also have an opportunity to reach additional milestones for their ongoing participation. Special contributor levels include: Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Double Platinum and Ruby.
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