Wikicars FAQ

Here are some frequently-asked questions about Wikicars, along with answers. You are welcome to post more questions, although we ask you to do so in the Discussion page for this article, as it will keep this Article page cleaner and easier to use.

Who writes the content on Wikicars?

Car owners and enthusiasts like you create Wikicars content. To make the site as useful as possible at launch, employees of Internet Brands wrote volunteer articles about their cars. They drew on their own experience as car-owners, as well as publicly available information from Internet Brands' automotive sites, Wikipedia and government sites.

How does Wikicars make money?

Wikicars was created as a labor of love by the car-loving employees of Internet Brands' automotive businesses. There are links to those businesses where Internet Brands content can supplement user contributions, so Internet Brands does benefit indirectly from traffic to Wikicars. But there is currently no plan to sell advertising on the site.

Is Wikicars an encyclopedia or a guide?

Wikicars is both. Wikicars aspires to be the most comprehensive source of fact based information about automobiles-- a Wikipedia of cars. At the same time, Wikicars is a guidebook, offering the consensus opinion of our community about the good, the bad, and the ugly of the automotive world. We believe this concensus opinion is very helpful; opinion and reviews that reflect the collective views of many people are much more likely to be accurate and unbiased. We have attempted to clearly label the opinion parts of the site. Some pages, such as Car Review Pages, are designed to be primarily opinion. Other pages have specifically labelled sections called "criticisms".

How is Wikicars different from Wikipedia? Wikicars was inspired by Wikipedia and follows many of its policy and style guidelines. But Wikicars solicits and offers content that is deeper and richer than what is on Wikipedia, supplemented by