The History of WikiAnswers
The History of WikiAnswers category is for questions that pertain to the founding of WikiAnswers and the history of WikiAnswers through the years.
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Emrey35Chris Whitten is the founder of WikiAnswers. This site was started in 2002 as FAQ Farm. In late 2004, it converted to a "wiki"...
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Milestones in the Creation of WikiAnswers FAQ Farm was started in 2002 by Chris Whitten (a pioneer in the Q&A arena). In...
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Who Owns WikiAnswers? Answers Corporation (founded in 1999, previously GuruNet) owns and operates WikiAnswers. The current CEO of...
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Answers.com's Community Mascot, known to most as the Orange Guy, was created by a talented illustrator named Leo Blanchette. Leo...
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FAQ Farm is the old name of this website. We used to call it "FAQ Farm: The WikiAnswers Community." It's always been about "wiki...
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At the beginning of 2007 we officially changed our name from FAQ Farm to WikiAnswers. We did this for a variety of reasons: *...
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(From Crystal on the Supervisors' forum...) Chris Whitten, the founder of this very site when it was FAQ Farm and a very dear...
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The first member was Chris Whitten, the creator and founder of WikiAnswers.
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WikiAnswers was named by the Answers.com team as "WikiAnswers" as it was a wiki (a website with editable pages) and it was used...
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WikiAnswers is sorry for your "abusive language". The staff and team will take care of those people that are being effected by...
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Included within these discussion pages is part of WikiAnswers' history. I split the question in order to preserve it.
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Answers.com/wikianswers.com was started as FAQ Farm in 2002 by Chris Whitten. Then, in 2006, it became part of Answers.com. and...
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WikiAnswers - originally known as FAQ Farm - was started by Chris Whitten, who was based in New York state in the US.
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WikiAnswers evolved slowly, one step at a time, to become the website you see today.It was started in 2002 by Chris Whitten under...
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If you can post an answer which will impress your readers because it is informative, helpful, scholarly, or otherwise excellent,...
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From the Google Knol article written about WikiAnswers: "Over the years, WikiAnswers.com has enjoyed a colorful progression. With...
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Oldest unanswered questions keep on changing.
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Dimag se iska jawab do? 1/Ameer Ko_____Ki Zroorat Hoti Hai.! 2/Gharib K Paas____Hota Hai 3/Hum____Khaye To Mar Jayenge 3no m...
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Yes. Chris Whitten (User:Chris) is still alive. He is now working on a website called WikiTree.com.
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Harvest Moon Big Fat Awesome House Party Publix Kroger Winn Dixie Grocery Shopping Shirley Temple Ben 10 Ben 10 video...
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Look at the bottom of this answer or any answer to a question and there you'll see "Discuss Question". Click on it and discuss.
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FAQs, the "Frequently Asked Questions" files that were born in USENET groups more than a decade ago, inspired the creation of...
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Wiki is a Hawaiian word for 'fast'. It can also stand for 'What I Know Is'.
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The stupidest questions asked are: 1. When I take my mouse of the table is stops working! Help! 2.When I flex a weird thing...
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Because we're bored! I dunno, I just sort of answered my own question… >>
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The SPA program was originally conceptualized in 2008 by Brave3, a former Community Coordinator and current Supervisor. It was...
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The privelege of the first ever blocked user on Wikianswers goes to :!@#$% (I can not tell the username otherwise I will get...
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Oleg is a supervisor and a developer at Wikianswers.com site. Oleg was born in 1984 in the former USSR and grew up in Kiev...
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Well, there a few kids/teens on here ages between 13 to 21. Older ages 22 to 50 some are even a bit older. Like 55 or 56. and...
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FAQ Farm founder Chris Whitten was the founder of FAQ Farm. More information can be found in a related question located below.
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Nope. WikiAnswers was created by Chris Whitten in 2002 under the name FAQ Farm. At the time, Chris was not a teenager.
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Yes, his username is Chris.
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WikiAnswers was founded by Chris Whitten in 2002. Back then it was known as FAQ Farm, but after being taken over by Answers.com...
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I think Chris Whitten, the creator of WikiAnswers, had a really great idea - why not name him the coolest WikiAnswers person?
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They are just a girl and boy. They aren't anyone special, just a nice symbol to add a charismatic touch to the logo.
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because they wanted to show you the right answer
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No, Chris Whitten is the founder of WikiAnswers, which became part of Answers.com in 2007. WikiAnswers was started in 2002 as FAQ...
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Chris Whitten, the founder of WikiAnswers, was born on September 15.
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WikiAnswers is part of the Answers.com brand. Answers.com Answers.com aims to be the world's best place for answers. It is made...
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No. His name is Chris Whitten and he is alive and well as of August 12, 2011.
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Someone who doesn't have an account on answers, so they can't have a good cool name like mine, for instance. ID00000000000 is...
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Normally, a website says not to give out any personal information like when talking to strangers, filling out a form, etc. I...
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All categories of questions generated in human mind is covered.
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Because it's the best question and Answer website It teaches you new things you've never knew by just a type and a click. Easy to...
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more than you will ever know
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One theory From a stork that flies across the sky, but instead of the baby stork it's a website stork. A second theory...
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This website gets revised with new questions and answers every second!
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The Founder of this site is Male .
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Answers Corp. acquired WikiAnswers (named FAQFarm at the time) on November 2, 2006.
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I started this website because i like to help people solve their problems and i like making websites i have done loads of...
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WikiAnswers.com started out as FAQ Farm. Categories were called FAQs, with the idea that these were the questions that the...
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WikiAnswers was not an expensive site to create because it was developed through a long, slow process of trial and error. Chris...
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Wow, what a question! The Genesis of WikiAnswers... Perhaps we'll never know, it was so long ago (2002) when the site went by...
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Nice people, lots of questions, and lots of answers.
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This website was set up to help people if they have a question to ask.
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asked - milliseconds. answered - hours.
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It's all about time. Most questions are answered eventually. Registered users can set up notification lists and receive email...
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Try typing them in again and you should see your question pop up.
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For registered users only, there is a thread in the Community Forum titled "Suggestion Box". That is where users can suggest new...
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WikiAnswers was originally started by Chris Whitten in 2002 as FAQ Farm. The name "FAQ Farm" was beloved by some users. It...
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Yes,they did.
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On 9-9-09 (September 9th, 2009), WikiAnswers hosted the '9 Cubed Event', where there was a WikiAnswers AnswerHunt, Town Halls,...
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Remember, people from all over the world ask questions on WikiAnswers. The person asking the question simply may not know an...
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Like most of our records, supervisor HisPowr4U was the first...along with being the first Ruby contributor. Who knows what...
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WikiTree.com was created by Chris Whitten, who also created WikiAnswers.
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No, what isn't, why is.
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March 22, 2005 - the first member blocked. This account was blocked for profanity. As the account name was profane, it cannot be...
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Obviously, we did all the Internet things to physically make this site. But the concept, now that is another matter! Our founder,...
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