Profile/Profil

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You can access your **user profile** on any community by hovering over your avatar at the bottom-left of the screen and then clicking "View Profile". Only logged-in users can have user profiles.

Your profile has two sections: one at the top and one at the bottom. The top section displays the same information on every community you edit. This is your basic introduction to other users and it displays information about you. The bottom section of your profile is your user page. You can edit it just like you edit other pages on a wiki. The bottom section of your profile on a specific wiki is different from other wikis you participate in, because it is for information about you that you want to put on a specific wiki.

## Top section: Global content

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When you first arrive at the top of your profile, it will look like this:

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That's just how you see it. When other users look at the top of your profile before you fill it out, they see this:

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But let's say you don't want to leave it blank. You can fill it out by hovering over the area and clicking the "edit profile" link that appears. You'll be presented with this:

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You might see a few fields filled out with information we already have about you. (We won't display those details without you saying "yes", though.) You can decide to keep that information, or you can change it! Keep these points in mind:

* Anything you enter into the new top section of your profile will appear on every community you've edited, so introduce yourself in a way that works for all of your wiki communities.
* Make clear, conscious decisions about what information you want to share about yourself. Read over our blog post about being safe online for a refresher course on what to consider.
* It's okay to be creative, experiment, and have fun. You don't have to fill these questions out the way you would on a government form - be unique!

### Other details

The top part of your profile will only show your information if you have edited on that community. If you have zero edits on that community, your personal information will not display; only your profile picture will.

If you want to upload an avatar, you can do so by hovering over your existing avatar and clicking the "Edit Avatar" link that appears below it. You can also upload an avatar using the Fandom app. See Help:Avatars for more details.

### Aka name

You can write a Fandom nickname for yourself on the "Name" section of your top user profile when you try to edit it. That might give other users an idea of what to call you. If you have a Fandom nickname, your profile will display your name like this: (Your username) aka (Your nickname)

### Bio

Within the Fandom app and most wikis, users can add "bio" text that is visible in all apps. This bio is also displayed on the top section of the user profile page.

## Bottom section: Wiki-specific content

The **About** tab is a blank wiki page that you can use to express yourself. Simply click the "Edit" button at the top of this section and start editing. We recommend you add links, photos, and information to express yourself and your interest in that community. In addition to your user avatar, you can add one user generated picture. This picture should be tagged with [[Category:User images]] and should be of your own creation. Do not upload official artwork as a user image and do not upload artwork that was made by someone else.

Note: If a user's profile section at the bottom is empty, it might read: "This user has not filled out their profile page yet."

You can also create subpages of your user profile. Just go to the subpage you'd want to create *(for example, User:<USERNAME>/Subpage)* and create the page.

The other tabs in this section are related to your activity on that community and your interaction with other users. The tabs that you see may vary from community to community, depending on which features are enabled.

* Your **Message Wall** or **Talk page** is a place where other users on the community can communicate with you.
* Your **Blog** is a place for you to create content and have other users comment on it.
* The **Contributions** tab lists the edits you've done on the community, including creating or renaming ('moving') pages. It will say what date you edited a page, the title of the page you edited, and it will say how you edited it in the form of wikitext.
* The **Activity** tab lists your posts and replies on the community social features. It has 3 sub-tabs, each related to a different feature:
	+ *Posts* for Discussions posts and replies.
	+ *Messages* for messages and replies on message walls.
	+ *Comments* for commenting or replying to a comment on an article page or a user blog page.

## See also

* Help:Avatars - Set your avatar picture
* Help:Preferences - Manage your user preferences on Fandom

## Further help and feedback

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