WikiAnswers.

So, today I'm going to climb BACK on up to my little soapbox in the stars and talk about something that has been occupying a LOT of my time recently- WikiAnswers.

For those of you who have been spending your time under a rock, or at the bottom of a garden pond, WikiAnswers is a website devoted entirely to asking and answering questions. Anyone can post a question, and anyone can post an answer, which can make it a bit unreliable, but you also have a better likelihood of getting an answer to your question. There are also leadership positions- supervisors for a certain category, floating supervisors, and much more. I'm not going to go into all the power chain on the site. The supervisors and other leaders make sure that the site is kept in running order, vandals are blocked, questions are answered correctly, and people remain polite to each other.

You might have already guessed, but, I'm a supervisor. A Floating Supervisor. I basically just run around the site, making sure everything is reasonably under control. I answer questions and ask questions and edit questions and edit categories and basically anything I can do. I ask a lot of questions I think others might be interested in, because it widens the database of the system. Supervisor is a volunteer position, so, I don't get paid, but they did send me a nice game set with chess and batgammon and all. (:

One way I get in a lot of WikiAnswering is when I study for tests or finals. I like to go through my study guides for each subject/topic and just ask and answer the questions on the list. I get more practice in because I think up an answer/retype all the questions, and the next person who comes along and doesn't remember who Miss Fisher is in To Kill a Mockingbird will be able to find out (she's Scout's first grade teacher, by the way.) When finals start to approach (they start WEDNESDAY!), using WikiAnswers is a great study method for me.

There's also competitions on WikiAnswers. I usually don't participate because I get so very busy, but, I wish I could. Besides major Answerthons, etc., there's just some friendly competition on who can answer the most questions and who can ask the most questions. As far as asking questions goes, right now, I'm 5th on the list (although it changes, regularly)- 5th out of thousands of contributers. For the answering list, I'm about 35th right now.

So, check out WikiAnswers if you haven't already. And find me on the site and give me a trust point, or leave me a message if you have an account. My username's Celindine.

That's CELINDINE, not celandine, like the flower, or celandyne, like my mommy spells it.