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So, the main role of a CA is to help contributors and supervisors do their stuff: asking, answering and editing questions.
Here are just a few activities that CAs perform daily:
- Temporarily watch uncovered topics.
- Welcome new contributors, and find valuable new users.
- Encourage active contributors.
- Stop vandalism in its tracks.
- Project assignments, such as cleaning up answers to more popular Q&As, including adding headers and bullet points.
- Keep an eye on alternate questions/merges.
- Clean up poorly worded questions.
- Watch new users and profiles.
- Salvage trashed questions that can be re-worded into legitimate questions.
- Feature questions.
- Split off new questions from alternates.
- Recruit new supervisors.
- Permanently delete trashed questions.
- Come up with new topic ideas.
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Are Community Assistants paid on WikiAnswers?
Yes, Community Assistants are paid employees of the Answers corporation.
Who gives warnings on WikiAnswers?
All Supervisors and Community Assistants can give warnings on WikiAnswers.
Who has the most power on WikiAnswers?
The Community Assistants have the most power.
Who are the administrators of WikiAnswers?
WikiAnswers is owned by answers.com. The highest users on this site (they work for WikiAnswers/Answers) are the Community Assistants.
How do you contact a Community Assistant on WikiAnswers?
Community Assistants can be contacted via their message boards or emails.(See the Related question for the full list of Community Assistants.)
Who are the current WikiAnswers Community Assistants?
Zanbabe (Suzanne) (http://wiki.answers.com/Q/User:Zanbabe) is currently the only community assistant on WikiAnswers.
Do people who work for WikiAnswers get paid?
Yes, the Community Assistants do get paid.
Are the site admins on WikiAnswers?
Yes they are also known as community assistants
What is the highest rank on WikiAnswers?
The highest contributor level on WikiAnswers is Ruby Contributor (500,000 contributions or more). Community Assistants (Answers.com employees) could be considered the highest "ranked" on WikiAnswers. Scott Moore (username Struwwelpeter) is the head of the Community Assistants.
How do you create a WikiAnswers EMail?
Only Supervisors, Community Assistants, or employees of Answers Corporation have WikiAnswers email addresses.
How often do Community Assistants have to be on WikiAnswers?
As Community Assistants are paid employees of the Answers.com corporation, they likely must be online during the times assigned, or enough to fulfill requirements; work time depends just like any other job. Of course, this does not mean that Community Assistants are on WikiAnswers solely due to their jobs.
Does anyone at WikiAnswers get paid?
Community Assistants are paid employees. Anyone else that contributes to WikiAnswers is doing so voluntarily.
