Setting Up Your Personal Profile and Using Your Personal Homepage

This topic covers setting up a personal profile after registering with Freebase.com, and personalized information that is displayed on the homepage when you login

Registering with Freebase

Anyone can use Freebase to search for information without registering, but only registered users can create and edit domains, topics, and types, or use features like Filter View exports. Freebase only requires a username, email address, and password to register, and your email will never be sold or re-used.

1. Click Register in the upper-right corner of the Freebase.com homepage.
2. Complete the username, email address, and password information. An email will be sent to confirm your email address.
3. When you receive the email click the link within it and you will be taken to your personal home page in Freebase.

Setting Up Your Personal Profile

Clicking the link in your registration email will bring you to your personalized homepage.

1. Click on your username or profile image in the upper-right corner of the homepage to view your personal profile page.
2. Click edit next to My Full Name , Where I Live , Websites , and Personal Quote to enter information. Note that this information can only be edited by you.
3. If you want to create a Person topic about yourself in Freebase, click edit next to Person-Topic About Me , then enter your name to create the topic. Complete as much information about yourself as you want, but note that others will be able to edit this topic as well.
4. If you want to add an image for your profile, click add next to Gallery and browse to a file on your computer to upload, or provide a link to an existing Freebase image or an image on the Web.
5. Click Manage your account to change your password and email.

Using Your Personal Homepage

Whenever you log into Freebase you will be taken to a personalized homepage that includes information about your recent activity on Freebase. You can access your personal homepage from anywhere in Freebase by clicking Home in the top navigation bar.

There are three main areas on the homepage that contain information directly connected to activity on Freebase.

• Your domains lists all the domains you have created. Click the name of a domain to view it, or Create a domain to start a new one.

• Notifications alerts you to replies to your discussion posts, or changes to discussions that you are watching. Click Replies or Watchlist to view the discussion activity.

• Your recent edits shows changes you've made recently to domains, types, or topics.