Wikianswers is part of Wikia, which aims to enable both the creation and organization of knowledge. Wikianswers aims to collaboratively create the best answer to any question, by providing a rich set of facts researched from publicly available sources. Wikianswers is a question and answer site inspired by traditional wiki principles of openness, transparency, and editability. Because of that, the content of Wikianswers is freely licensed. This means it can be re-used and re-purposed by others for free, and that the original authors of any answer maintain their own copyrights on their work.