Contributing Information

Freebase Contribution Guidelines
Please do contribute to Freebase. You can upload data, add pieces of information ad hoc, edit entries that are inaccurate or incomplete and participate in discussions. Just bear in mind a few...
Is That Appropriate Content?
or Freebase is open to all kinds of user-contributed content, from discussions of the most esoteric aspects of schema and property creation to topics about your favorite bands. Occasionally,...
What is Public Domain?
When you upload media content like images to Freebase, you're asked to indicate whether it's available for distribution under a license like CC-BY, or whether it's available under public domain or...
What is Fair Use?
Fair use refers to the reproduction of copyrighted works (such as written works, photographs, graphical images, sound recordings, and artworks) or portions of copyrighted works for scholarly or...
Uploading Images under CC-BY
When you upload an image to Freebase, one of the license options is Creative Commons (by) aka CC-BY. CC-BY is a type of license that allows the distribution of content and...
Beginner's Guide: Contributing to Freebase
Freebase is a free database of the world's information. By contributing to Freebase, whether it's a single piece of information or a week's work, you are contributing to the world of open data. ...
Beginner's Guide: Loading Data
What sort of data? What sort of data belongs in Freebase? In general, Freebase is best suited to factual information which is of ongoing interest to an audience of more than just...
Understanding User Groups and Roles
User groups are, as you might expect, groups of users in Freebase. Featured users and Metaweb staff are a couple of obvious examples of these. Typically, these user groups are attached to domains....
Editing a Topic Description
There are three ways you can add information to a Freebase topic:
Editing Topic Properties
If you're reading this topic it's probably because you've been looking around Freebase and have found a topic that has some information missing; maybe it's a character from your favorite novel, the...
Creating a New Topic
There are a number of ways to create a new topic. The best way is to navigate to the type you want to create, either via search or browse, and click on the 'Add a new...' button in the upper left to...
Adding a Type to a Topic
Sometimes you'll find a topic that is missing information and none of the types associated with it contain the properties you want. For instance, imagine you're viewing the actress Jennifer Lopez...
Flagging Topics for Merge or Deletion
Occasionally you may notice that someone has created a duplicate of a topic that already exists under another type, or you yourself might create a topic and then want to delete it. And then...
Voting on Flagged Topics
From the homepage, users can now help clean up Freebase data by reviewing flagged topics. Flagged topics have been marked by other users as candidates for merge or delete. If a flagged topic gets...
Performing a Bulk Upload
Looking for some bulk import tools? Perhaps a way to import data from Excel or a CSV file? We are too. We do have plans to provide bulk import utilities from Excel and Tab Separated Variable files...
Contributing Large Datasets
If you are a developer and have figured out how to write directly to Freebase using MQL, you may be wondering if there are any limitations you should be aware of. Since we are still in Alpha, we ask...