What is Wiki Answers?
Wiki Answers is a community-powered question-and-answer website where questions are asked, answered, edited and organized by its community of users. The site allows anyone to ask or answer questions on any topic.
Some key features of Wiki Answers include:
- Crowdsourced Q&A on every topic imaginable
- Community moderation and editing to improve quality
- Categorization of questions into topics for easy browsing
- Options to follow questions and be notified of new answers
- Integration with other sites like Wikipedia for references
- Points and levels system to encourage participation
- Available in multiple languages besides English
As a collaborative question-and-answer platform, Wiki Answers leverages the knowledge and expertise of its worldwide user community. Its crowdsourced model allows it to cover an extremely wide range of topics. By involving users in editing, organizing, flagging poor questions/answers, it is able to maintain quality more effectively than rival sites.
Reddit, Quora, QueryHome, SaidIt.net, Similar Worlds, Askville, Resolvve, Compesh, Fitness Chirp Rooms, Bitanswers, Tarzeer, Wortherendum, Get Up Genie are some alternatives to Wiki Answers.