User blog comment:Shahid/Create your own Answers site/@comment-96362-20100322210027

Seahorseruler and Joeyaa: First, say I am writing a Program in Python and come across some trouble with the XML DOM. So I then ask a question on Wikianswers. Wanting to get the quickest answer possible, I post it on more answers sites. I go to Python Answers from Wikia and post it. Ditto for XML Answers from Wikia, DOM Answers from Wikia, and Programming Answers from Wikia. Since XML and the DOM are associated with the Internet, I also post it on Internet Answers from Wikia. There will prolly be a HowTo Wikianswers too. In a few months my question gets answered. I read the answer. So that no mess of unanswered questions is left, I go to all of the sites I remember posting the question on and copy the answer to them. I then still watch the questions in case the answer gets changed, in which case I copy the change to all of the sites the question is on.

Here is what I would do in this situation if the was only one answers site. I would ask the question, categorizing it under Python, XML, and DOM. I would categorize Category:Python under Programming and Category:XML and Category:DOM under Internet. When the question is answered, all I have to do is read the answer. That process would be much simpler.

Next, say I want to answer some questions about copyright. I would go to each answers site in which copyright is applicable. That would be about six sites if there were two hundred answers sites. At each I would decide which choices from searching "copyright," searching "Category:Copyright," and getting a random page would get me the best results and answer a question or two.

If there was only one answers site, I would go to Wikianswers and search for "Category:Copyright" and "copyright," and then I would answer a question or two and placing the questions I answer into the proper categories.

If there was just Wikianswers, I could find everything with just one search bar.

Joeyaa: Wikipedia has limits on what topics can be covered. Wikianswers accepts just about any question.