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Editing a Topic Description

Descriptions are articles that can be edited by the Freebase community. Some topics have been seeded with the first paragraph or two of a Wikipedia article, but these can be replaced and a new description can be written to take its place.

To edit a description click Edit Description, then click Save. Click Cancel if you don't want to save your changes.

WYSIWYG editing of rich text isn't supported at this time in the standard topic view in order to encourage topic editors to focus on writing brief descriptions suitable for viewing as a search result. The only formatting supported is the carriage return. More extensive information should be captured in property values, not in descriptive text. 

Recent Discussions about Editing a Topic Description

Wot? No formatting of Descriptions?

"Thanks for the kind words. I think Wikis and Google will certainly continue to have their place! As..."

5 posts

Should the Wikipedia link (also) appear outside the description?

"Agree completely. We hope to add a discrete link to a Wikipedia article when we have a Wikipedia ID..."

2 posts

Why no links in description from Wikipedia?

"We import the Wikipedia articles to seed Freebase with topics. We're not trying to replicate..."

2 posts

More control over formatting, please

"I think it would be useful to add a feature to the editor that also allows all formatting to be..."

3 posts

Replacing a mistakenly selected Wikipedia description

"I see now. I selected the default choice. Link corrected, thanks! "

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