Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Wikianswers answer to any of your questions

A world-famous online encyclopedia Wikipedia has a useful addition: a question and answer service called Wikianswers. The new project is an initiative of the author of the project Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales.

Of course, the new service is similar with a fairly well known: Yahoo Answers, Linkedin Answers and a few others. Open a new project as usual: some users ask questions, others are responsible. However, there are differences Wikianswers: answer the questions, you can all - registration is not required.

This type of the service significantly accelerate the addition of the detailed responses to those users who do not like pass the registration procedure. But fans of the project Wiki feared that without the registration of the answers to those questions may be false, and even incorrect. So far it is unclear whether the recruitment of staff moderators or answers will be verified by any other means, for example, through a system of automatic software filters.

Currently, the system Wikianswers there are already more than 35 thousand questions. It should be noted that the name of the project, Jimmy Wales coincides with the name of long-running service competitor Wiki Answers.

So far, not made any significant difference of the new Wales service from similar projects that have long been popular among Internet users. However, it is possible that the popularity of Wikipedia will allow a new project immediately receive a significant number of users.