My Pages
Personalize WikiAnswers! Learn more about the five features you can adjust according to your preferences:
My Bio Page
Use your Bio Page to tell others about yourself... or use this bit of personal real estate to promote a business or organization with logos and links. You'll get some great exposure, because WikiAnswers is one of the fastest-growing sites on the Web!
Check out some of our tips for customizing your Bio Page.
My Contributions
Each time you ask or answer a question, or make any other edit or contribution on WikiAnswers, it is recorded somewhere on the site. You can access your complete history of contributions by selecting the My Contributions link from the left toolbox. You can choose how many contributions you would like to view at one time (20, 50, 100, 250 or 500).
My Message Board
Message Boards are the primary way that contributors communicate with one another on WikiAnswers. You can use the Message Boards to thank someone for answering your question, ask for clarification on something that has been posted, or simply send a shout out.
To post a message on another contributor's board, just click on their name in any post they have made. You'll be brought to their Bio Page, which includes a link to their Personal Message Board. Scroll down to the end of the message board, post your comment in the space provided, and click Post this message.
To access your own Message Board, click My Message Board on the left toolbox. When you receive a message, a highlighted alert will appear at the top of the left toolbox that says, "You have a new message." Click on this to go directly to the new post.
Although the Message Boards are for communicating with other contributors, they are not private. Anyone can read what's on them. Also keep in mind that Message Boards are not for posting questions or answers. This is what the rest of WikiAnswers is for!
Read more tips on how to use Message Boards.
My Settings
Under My Pages on the left-hand menu, you will find a link called My Settings. This is where your control panel is located. In this area, you can pick and choose how you use and view WikiAnswers.
For example, you can let others know where you are from, change your password and select your email preferences.
There are also some advanced settings that you might want to check out.
A handy one is to mark answer edits as minor by default. When this is selected, your edits will not be included in the 'First answer by, Last edit by' contributions area. This is great if you often make simple spelling and grammar improvements, because it allows credit to stay with the last contributor who added or improved the actual content of an answer.
You also have an option to hide your own changes from your Watchlist, which makes it easier to see other people's changes.
Whenever you modify your settings, be sure to save them before leaving the settings page.
My Watchlist
Your Watchlist is a tool for monitoring the activity in specific categories or in individual questions or discussions that interest you. When you sign in you will see a My Watchlist Changes link in your left-side menu.
Add questions and categories to your Watchlist
You can opt to automatically add questions you've edited to your Watchlist. In My Settings, select Add pages you edit to your Watchlist by default.
You can also manually select items. To add an individual question, go to the question page and select Watch Question from the left toolbox. To watch an entire category, go to the category and click Watch Category from the left toolbox. To access your Watchlist, click on the My Watchlist link located in the left toolbox.
Near the top of the Watchlist page there is a link that says Click here to change the list of categories and questions you are watching. From this list, you can select and deselect items. When you're finished making changes, be sure to save them by clicking the button.
Getting notified about changes to your Watchlist
If you have included an email address in your WikiAnswers account, any new questions you are watching will be emailed to you as they are updated. If you prefer to follow your Watchlist on the site only, you can stop these updates by deselecting "Enable updates" on the My Settings page.
This is a tool for monitoring the activity in specific categories or in individual questions or discussions that interest you.
Nothing is automatically added to your Watchlist. When you are on a category page or a question page you can click the link in your left-side menu that says Add to Watchlist. You can also have questions that you answer added to your Watchlist.
If you have included an email address in your WikiAnswers account any new questions you are watching will be emailed out to you. You can stop these updates or remove your email address through the My Settings link in the left-side menu.
