User profile/account
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User profile/account
In your profile personal information, tools and settings are sorted into five (in a case of Advanced user - six) tabs:
Profile
The profile tab shows your personal information such as your real name, how many languages you speak and brief details about yourself. You are not obligated to provide personal details so you can leave the personal information section blank. To access your personal settings see 'Change personal information' below. Information about voting, special roles and awards you have obtained can also be seen in your profile.
Voting
Voting is our method of providing positive feedback to you about your contributions to Wikimapia, and for you to provide positive feedback to other users about theirs. People who make a positive contribution to Wikimapia ("describing the world" by creating useful and well-described places) are deserving of a positive vote.
Note that the number of votes you receive does not mean anything by itself. Having twice as many votes as the other user does not mean you're twice as good as him. And get votes is just one indicator of its activities in Wikimapia. Ask for votes or vote for someone because they expect to receive another vote good back is not recommended, many consider this a poor behavior. So do not do that.
Settings/preferences
You can customize personal settings by accessing the following options in the profile.
Choose your location
This is an optional tab. In this tab you can select a location to show either where you are currently editing, or to show other users the country/city/village you are from. But this facility is visible to all, therefore if you do not want others to know where you are, you can leave it blank.
If you decided to select a location to show in your profile, click the 'Profile' sub-menu under your user name. Your profile page should appear, click 'Choose your location' highlighted and underlined in red on the right (next to your vote box) and follow the information and procedure appears on the right in a new page. Finally click 'save the location'.
Edit avatar
This tab is optional. It allows you to upload/change the profile picture.
In computing, an avatar is the graphical or picture representation of the user. You can chose to have a photo of yourself, or any other images you like to represent you. But please do not upload any political inflammatory, derogatory or pornographic images.
In the sub-menu under your user name click profile, select 'Edit avatar' highlighted and underlined in red on the right (next to your vote box). Follow the procedure to upload the image you want, click 'save' when finished.
You may not immediately see your avatar appearing in forum messages if you have been posting message in forum, you need to refresh your page.
Change personal information
This is a tab for you you to enter information about yourself. In the right side of your profile page, you can see the wording of "Change personal info" highlighted and underlined in red. Click on it and a new box should appear. On the left column, you can see several rows of information for you to fill in. You can enter your real name if you prefer; equally you can leave it blank if you rather others know you by your user name only. The information required for the next two boxes are optional. In the "spoken language" field although not compulsory to enter your spoken language or languages, it is desirable and often very helpful to users who might want to find another user who can help in their native language.
The "Something about you" field is for you to enter anything you want others to know about yourself. There is no need to write long pages about yourself. It is better to be brief and to the point.
On the right hand column, you can choose to enter all those fields or not. Think carefully before you decide to enter those details, as it is personal to you.
The next field "Change password" is pretty much self explanatory.
If you would like to receive notification from Wikimapia that you have PM (private message) waiting for you in your mail box, you can enter you e-mail address and tick the box "Allow Wikimapia to send emails for me" in the following column. When you have new messages from other users you will receive notification to your e-mail address. If you rather not, then leave this box unchecked.
Finally, in the bottom row, if you do not want your own edits showing in your watchlist, tick the box marked "Hide my own revisions in watchlist". But if you want it to be shown, leave the box unchecked.
The entries to all these boxes are optional in this profile page.
Messages
The message tab shows a list of your contacts in order of most recently contacted. You can see the total messages exchanged between you and each contact under their username. Contacts whom have sent you new/unread messages appear at the top of the contacts list with a 'New message' indicator under their username.
Messaging/privacy settings
There are two types of configurations of private and public messages.
- Private message (you can communicate privately, but you can disable this feature).
- Post public (everyone will see your posts).
Awards
The awards tab shows awards you have earned by reaching designated milestones based on the quantity of your contributions. The three star award system is incremental and rewards you by encouraging you to add and edit more objects.
Stats
The Stats tab shows statistics on all aspects of your contributions. In this page, you can see the number of edits you have done against the kind of work you have contributed. For example, if you want to look back on the number of created places you have done, you can look into your stat page against this field. The number of places you have created will be highlighted in red. Equally, other users can also look into your stat page and see what your contributions are and vice versa.
Tools
The Tools tab shows tools available based on your experience level.
User/rank search
If you wish to find a user's profile, simply click your rank number in your profile to access the user/rank search tool, or you can access it here.
