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IMDb Top 300 Data Contributors for 2021 (and Happy New Year 2022 from IMDb)

Included below is our end-of-year message to IMDb's top 300 data contributors for 2021. Thanks again to everyone who contributed to IMDb -- every data contribution helps. If anyone outside of the top 300 would like to know their 2021 (only) live item total and their position in the complete list, please post a reply here and, for a limited time, we will try to let you know. Please include a link to your activity page in your reply so we can locate your position. Happy New Year 2022 from IMDb! [sorry for any errors in the format due to cut-and-paste into Sprinklr; a clean copy will also be available at https://contribute.imdb.com/czone/top_msg in early January] First, it is important to acknowledge that we are still in the midst of an ongoing and ever-evolving global pandemic and the situation remains difficult for so many. In July we lost a beloved IMDb team member to COVID-19; and although we feel the pain of their absence daily, we also celebrate and cherish their memory. We hope you have all been able to stay safe and well during 2021, and our thoughts and best wishes go out to everyone who is struggling during this unprecedented time. The table at the end of this message shows the number of approved, non-duplicate data items which the Top 300 contributors have submitted in 2021, including corrections and deletions. The total number of contributors exceeded 900,000 people, and since March we have been posting monthly contributor rankings to Sprinklr. We have also made further improvements in terms of both processing times and publishing speed, even with record contribution volumes. Almost 11.4 million names with over 800,000 added in 2021 (note a change to the counting methodology vs. 2020 due to name merges)This makes two consecutive years with more than one million new titles added across the twelve months, which now equates to an average of over 3,400 new titles per day! Additional statistics are available in the press room and are updated quarterly. ... From a contributor perspective by Jennifer Reiley ... Lady Whistledown from We have also been doing a lot of work to support our global contributor base, improving functionality and offerings. For example, we enabled contribution of Devanagari (Hindi script) Alternate Titles and launched non-English plot outlines on IMDb title pages. We remain committed to improving the experience for our global contributor base, so stay tuned for ongoing improvements in this area! We’ve also been making some exciting updates for industry professionals using IMDbPro. In March, we added the ability to contribute a department head attribute and in July, we launched primary profession selection in IMDbPro which allows IMDbPro members the ability to control how and what profession is displayed on their name pages across IMDb and IMDbPro. This change improves name discoverability, so members can promote themselves, get hired, grow their network, and advance their career. We also launched the ability to set a primary contact to help industry professionals quickly reach the right person. One of the exciting things about working at IMDb is that new content is added by the minute; we are also always updating the software which drives the features and services built on top of this content. In July we completed the launch of our new title pages which use a responsive design on new scalable technology. We have recently completed the beta testing of a new multi-language experience across all of the pages built on this new technology (including title, home, photos and video) which provides access to the labels and some content across several languages according to customer location and preferences. A formal launch will be ready in 2022, and more translated pages will be supported as we move further onto the new technology. We have also started to localise search results across the site and apps to make titles easier to find. Movies That Changed My Life, and launched a new podcast What to Watch section, plus other where-to-watch features across the site and apps. You can also follow us on our various social media channels: Facebook, Instagram, Twitch, Twitter, and YouTube. Thanks also to our poll community for creating such engaging content for fans. You are always welcome to vote or even submit your own polls. Grand Canyon which contains my all-time favourite movie quote, Feedback Col Needham IMDb Founder and CEO on behalf of the whole IMDb Team [message continued in reply below due to Sprinklr space limitations]

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[the Top 300 listing itself continued from above] Rank Submissions Nickname 1 3,232,592 inespape-1 2 1,404,109 matthias_metzger 3 780,926 formulakaz 4 732,535 xylit333 5 678,687 MAthePA 6 592,947 Gabrielfox 7 551,268 Nomissimon10 8 522,702 cinelamour 9 457,368 ron_whisky 10 362,604 michaelfool 11 343,478 SkipEastport 12 296,397 Woodyanders 13 247,822 Perspicuity1 14 246,010 11433Sthlm 15 240,901 harrisonjiang-78175 16 239,738 Mark_a_Wood 17 208,194 raympretorius 18 193,331 ctfabian 19 183,962 pegg1976 20 179,951 dscbulkmail-amazon 21 178,485 joeddelozier 22 168,231 Blaine1942 23 157,237 denny-27 24 155,019 slordoshoes 25 149,952 Happy_Evil_Dude 26 149,853 farhanazhari05 27 149,351 Holojarg 28 149,106 Stevarooni 29 146,389 sundevilemily 30 140,348 mohgamam 31 136,131 KaramXXV 32 133,003 Huggo 33 126,236 vorachotes 34 120,143 Kurre 35 118,899 soma-2 36 115,533 hotjamieskinner 37 114,457 tazjjh 38 112,839 Sleugercios 39 106,964 geeked-out-4-movies 40 106,435 ind3 41 105,943 lapantera 42 105,585 capamaroux-1 43 104,558 GusF 44 101,811 shatterdaymorn 45 101,407 FahimShahriar45 46 99,960 dk_schiff 47 99,855 prudi-272-737983 48 99,560 yook 49 96,498 BonaFideBOSS 50 95,222 zoltanakos 51 94,336 Invisible2015 52 94,260 philipfhayes 53 94,187 sarge-19 54 93,581 emiebocalbos-jp 55 93,333 PierreLeewes-2 56 92,454 chribren 57 90,678 gurer-65810 58 90,654 ahmetkozan 59 89,981 trotter1954 60 86,695 essmom 61 83,576 thomaswake16 62 82,925 vielguillaume 63 81,515 lor_ 64 81,427 scharlachred 65 81,385 lecoinducinephage 66 79,770 LoginTo 67 78,861 dbassler1304 68 77,983 eknowlson 69 77,907 Simba63 70 75,930 jimjo1216 71 75,053 elouie-53670 72 74,534 batshoncristiano 73 74,133 tashrimac 74 73,953 bbmtl-21883 75 73,454 martinchinwuba 76 73,292 Ioana_St 77 71,592 Greg75 78 69,395 Valkyrslayer 79 68,573 LargoDonWen 80 68,295 migueloliveiramonteiro 81 68,128 scgary66 82 66,798 The_Movie_Cat 83 64,817 davefoss 84 64,635 Lenonn 85 63,370 Chip_douglas 86 62,935 mitchelvwijk 87 62,723 akira625 88 61,564 mariojacobs 89 61,286 skillwithaquill 90 59,890 Col Needham 91 59,431 Rain85 92 59,298 Matt-Affleck 93 57,985 tmariotoledo 94 57,444 jmgr-86592 95 57,341 spring_migrant 96 57,049 arturo_smallcharm 97 56,469 tmfraga 98 56,052 McBE92 99 55,942 ETZ_Critic 100 54,967 jwelch-21319 101 54,834 abtheboss 102 54,782 tahagumustg 103 54,565 Channing_F 104 54,435 vondiesel-1 105 53,859 mnmonteiro 106 52,908 slownet2 107 52,353 elouie2000 108 52,022 nickromm 109 51,144 thebreadladyky 110 50,078 horn-5 111 49,114 britstuff 112 48,772 benhampel 113 48,483 SlyFan180 114 48,467 Velaska_official 115 48,452 danstarr69 116 48,049 pampeano2882 117 47,912 ebrahimiexe 118 47,402 zoroman2008 119 47,116 Lara_Cain 120 46,151 jb71a 121 45,352 srinivastarun 122 45,279 gal bela 123 44,802 brainybrailler 124 44,027 Leffaneuvos 125 42,646 DmitryKantorov 126 42,211 mneu-22567 127 42,164 ianlueck 128 41,908 J. Spurlin 129 41,401 mtfaulknertn 130 41,219 rharlan58 131 40,876 marty602 132 40,651 vande 133 40,522 tillmany 134 40,443 jan_nihilation 135 40,359 Tarkin 136 39,994 nelliepants 137 39,375 ljdoncel 138 38,826 GBrazier 139 38,028 NickRiganas 140 37,521 FangsNL 141 37,367 maaarun 142 37,270 MrIQ 143 37,101 Sosna95 144 37,002 PierreS 145 36,308 azuraring-84989 146 35,962 jerrygauthier 147 35,800 Cyborg89 148 35,692 yossi-tissona 149 35,688 jg-50323 150 35,503 SchaiDog 151 35,313 RoderichFM 152 35,294 izko-35160 153 35,273 shrinivasgkulkarni 154 35,133 Zalhera 155 34,506 madhuc 156 34,142 tityron 157 34,085 projectobjectvault 158 33,814 postlopez 159 33,641 carllh 160 33,420 Jukka_A 161 33,413 pizarron-00920 162 33,083 benourdog 163 32,854 mysteriousbluebox 164 32,151 arshela 165 32,109 fredcdobbs5 166 31,978 matrix11001 167 31,685 norbertcreutz 168 31,567 paulparisot 169 31,467 marcial84 170 31,214 girlygirl9983 171 31,083 Tarhaseppo 172 30,993 klmnop87 173 30,580 hm-2021 174 30,456 mcwelch7 175 30,400 robetsonian 176 30,294 bta98 177 29,999 RioNice 178 29,895 mririv 179 29,688 Sasu 180 29,623 ayumihamasakifan 181 29,358 Peter-Patrick76 182 29,341 Godslaye 183 29,238 snazzyleo-40564 184 28,632 fkevin-94651 185 28,475 sweet_fluffy_puppy 186 28,401 manzanamx1 187 28,137 verokjon 188 27,865 surenpbharadwaj 189 27,697 Akasava 190 27,678 jostimor 191 27,563 abby_fdez 192 27,482 NoRa_FoKa 193 26,914 PJ66MR 194 26,804 tanrub 195 26,738 Mjollnir 196 26,589 linus2001 197 26,489 rnahigian 198 26,459 mmeijlof 199 26,225 stefanocappuccio-sc 200 25,874 aapraje 201 25,438 Dekkappai 202 25,431 E-Kartoffel 203 25,374 Cecchini- 204 24,827 niunoniotro 205 24,730 supermarketuldefilme 206 24,541 livewirebryant-58232 207 24,520 CPPB-Int 208 24,466 saebaby86 209 24,326 klier_leon 210 24,241 JohnBahn 211 24,053 Solar_Dragon 212 23,985 gblake1115 213 23,968 farhanazhariannuar 214 23,915 davidsontrent 215 23,843 kashyapchandhock 216 23,831 weller79 217 23,815 kimberly_melville 218 23,792 calderdo 219 23,704 mkcvxiii 220 23,648 smcgann14 221 23,607 dj-dom 222 23,593 Travis_Bickle92 223 23,516 RitaAbbas 224 23,450 The_Professor_Scary 225 23,288 glf-5 226 23,204 allarago 227 23,191 jpedroccarvalho 228 22,837 thebrotherfamily 229 22,762 Sizzith 230 22,443 kuldeepchauhan_331 231 22,428 JasonIK75 232 22,390 naliacr 233 22,372 cinemacriterion 234 22,255 amickbyron 235 22,125 mbjwilkins 236 22,027 cbrubaker 237 21,986 edwardhewitt65 238 21,970 digital-18070 239 21,967 marilyng-08110 240 21,612 invisec 241 21,602 solnoms 242 21,150 TrivWhiz 243 20,964 VinnieRattolle 244 20,860 zedmusic 245 20,784 bdparavi 246 20,631 mekmekb 247 20,554 Lujuriaa 248 20,476 info-68530 249 20,467 Littleman95 250 20,291 anthony-42000 251 20,256 ehren-50501 252 20,251 newyorkinspace 253 20,128 ccoyle36 254 20,040 Noirdame79 255 19,996 cyberlioness 256 19,990 SlapCapFever 257 19,978 Hurdy_Gurdy_Man 258 19,917 jmarkoff2 259 19,848 pbn 260 19,686 Fettzilla85 261 19,678 hershiser2 262 19,546 vikrantkhanna-75586 263 19,384 suprabj0083 264 19,299 Ron 265 19,288 JamesLeeHunt 266 19,192 skok 267 19,155 Kari Hakkinen 268 18,914 basakm-58738 269 18,897 ulf-635-523367 270 18,874 NoWireHangers 271 18,841 jrommz 272 18,737 arorashadow_2003 273 18,724 AhmedDaReviewer 274 18,640 jp_91 275 18,590 moviemanager2 276 18,515 kenichiku 277 18,444 robiics 278 18,382 J-R-Dickson 279 18,216 k-vissers 280 18,200 Numpty-Twonk 281 18,172 Bonnascope 282 18,111 richboy_is_dead 283 17,979 Cracker05 284 17,848 SteveResin 285 17,824 maiwenn-imdb 286 17,817 sambarian 287 17,790 rnibedit 288 17,725 TVBuff90 289 17,576 cobratecobrate 290 17,568 Jens Christian Skov 291 17,516 neilr64 292 17,367 skzanthosh-41541 293 17,187 ncottone-28464 294 17,100 rvindas-38328 295 16,813 Majon1 296 16,739 Tom-413 297 16,698 slicknickxp 298 16,664 martindano 299 16,661 aghaemi 300 16,625 ElectricBeelsebub

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@Col_Needham Hello! A good day and a Happy New Year to all. I've been waiting the day for a long time and it seems there is an error. According to my calculations, this year I added between 35,000 and 40,000 items. Could someone take a few minutes to check my situation? https://www.imdb.com/user/ur34458014/

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@Col_Needham First of all, a happy new year! Hope you and yours are well. Can you tell me how I ranked in 2021? https://www.imdb.com/user/ur0862605/

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@Col_Needham Ok, I am new here so this is probably a very dumb question... but how can one person (inespape-1) possibly have made over 3 million contributions? Are we talking about goofs and stuff? Because I've contributed about four of those in ten years. This guy must spend every waking second typing stuff in!!

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@Col_Needham Hi. Please check again. Between 20 and 28 December I added around 16.000 items. The pictures shows what I'm seeing on my 'Contribution Details' page.

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@AlbertoTreaddur most likely a group of people or a computer program automating the process.

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@Nomissimon10 Right. I guess. Thanks. I am amazed there are that many bits of information to be added, to be honest. That has to be be way more than the total number of movies in the database!

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@AlbertoTreaddur It's worse than that. 3.2 million submissions over 365 days is over 8700 per day! That's roughly 1 every 9.8 seconds over 24 hours! I guess a bot is most likely. Or a s***load of people are using the same ID simultaneously, which sites rarely allow!

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@Col_Needham It's me again. I will wait until I will get an argumentative answer. It there a possibility to take send you an e-mail with 4 ways to prove that my number of admissions is higher than is currently shown? On the bottom of the page you mentioned https://contribute.imdb.com/updates/history?start=3810 the 'previous button' shows my last items were added yesterday, among them: 211231-171010-642000.

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@Col_Needham I will wait until I see it. This does mean that my place on the top will be higher, correct? ... for some of those ... For all. In case that there are similar 'confusion', could you write a few words explaining that the list is not final. Thank you for your time to respond all of us.

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@AlbertoTreaddur Ines is female name. 👀

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@Col_Needham I was wondering when the actual cutoff was as I was still making contributions yesterday.

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@adrian me too and many are still open to be accepted

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@AlbertoTreaddur He would have had to made a submission every ten seconds. He would have done this without sleep, food, work. I searched and found the profile. It's must be a bot or some kind of dump for a list of users who make submissions for production companies (if such a group exists), and should not be listed. https://www.imdb.com/user/ur1421253/

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@DrProfessor ofc it should be listed. The board is to show all the top contributors. Just because someone knows how to automate and make the process more accurate they should not be stripped of the recognition.

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@Col_Needham No.82!!! Yay!!! I think that'll be the highest I'll ever reach (and, judging by last year, the only time I'll make the Top 300, let alone 100) as all the time in lockdown has made it so much easier. I'll still carry on contributing, of course, but I think this will be my peak year. Glad to have made it.

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@Nomissimon10 Obviously scripts shouldn't be included.

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@DrProfessor I do realize it might come off as unfair on a scoreboard pov. But don't you think that people that spend their time on making computer programs that rapidly builds upon the IMDb database with more accurate information should be getting recognition for contributing? I do obviously have a bias seeing as I am one of those people. But it makes it so I have time to actually add data on all the Norwegian series. And add images for their episodes. And add the most popular podcasts and their episodes. Seeing as these would not be possible to do if I did not automate the process. Also, if I did them all manually there would be user errors leading to wrongful information being submitted. (It is not possible to sit 10h a day to contribute without adding a lot of wrongful information)

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Why not share the bots to the public, then other contributors could use them to add other data bits which said bot owners don't do. Then the data submissions would explode. Share the (bot) love, so to speak. ;-)

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@jimthing It is a good idea. And one I have had before. Only issues is that it does require more manual work than what you would think. And if a person wants to he/she can upload a ton of inaccurate data. (To ruin things for others) This would not be the case for a person that has our a lot of hours into making a program that automates it. A database is also needed for my program which would increase the workload required to set up the program. I might share some time in the future with certain interested people that already spend time contributing. Glad you are interested though. Noting your interest

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Not me personally using said bots myself (I don't have such time, unfortunately). What is interesting, is the idea of clever users (such as yourself and others) who use bots to add data en masse, giving the tools to others who have the time, inclination, and are trusted enough to do likewise. Provided bot owners are not only wanting to get on the annual leaderboard, it would surely be hugely beneficial to the site getting more data each year – obviously providing the IMDb staff can increase to manage to all, lol!

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If people don't want to share the use of their bots, I can understand that. But it would be nice if some of them would explain what their bots do and where the bots get their data to submit from.

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@gromit82 Like I mentioned I could potentially share with a few. But for now I can answer your question. I get data from API's and webacraping. I use NRK's API for Norwegian series and podcasts. I webscrape discovery+ for series as they don't have a publicly available API. I use Spotify's API for podcasts. Hope this answers your question.

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what I see is that many dont know what counts as submission, here are billions datas missing which you can add with some clicks and copy/paste without bot or so, more I dont say, I accidently found out in the summer

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@Col_Needham Can you please tell me my position and the number of contributions I sent last year?

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@Col_Needham I'd like to know what my puny place was, thanks

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@Nomissimon10 Am I the only one that thinks this should be disallowed as the credits are not verified with actual onscreen credits but on reliant on third hand sources for their information? While I rarely edit non-English language credits (due to the fact I have to rely on Google for translations), there are a lot of credits that are just flat out wrong and I wonder how anyone that watched the title would enter them this way.

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@adrian i can read German, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and a bit swedish and slovenian

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@adrian I personally don't do any credits at all. So I do not have an opinion on it. However, I will say this: If a computerprogram makes mistakes in a medium-sized portion of its submission it should not be used at all. With the way the credit's adding is done I don't think that it would be effective to automate such a process as there are many people with similar names. And smaller series/episodes can have less known actors. Leading to wrong credit being given. If I were to ever automate a process for adding credits I would only trust direct sources like Spotify or in my case NRK (Norwegian state television) as they themself provide a lot of information that can be used in different settings.

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@Col_Needham Happy New Year! Could I please know my total number of contributions and my ranking for 2021? https://www.imdb.com/user/ur5456783/

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@Col_Needham​ I was in the top 500. Thank you very much for letting me know!

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I've definitely employed some measure of automation before, mostly in regards to navigating but also sometimes manipulating the submission form. Usually it is harder to add new data than to correct existing data (such as just based off observing problems with it), since the latter requires sourcing information that is absent, and often the only way to know if something is absent is to stumble upon a page that is bereft of the kind of information expected to be found on pages for non-obscure cinema/television works.

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@Nomissimon10​ That does make sense. However, it's like steroids. They are banned from competitive sports because they give people an unfair advantage. I certainly don't think that scripts should be banned after listening to your reasoning. Perhaps they should have a separate category recognizing them as such.

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@DrProfessor​ This idea makes sense, however, who would decide who were using a program? And how would that get checked? If I am the only person fighing in the bot category it is no fun for me. And if one bot stays in the normal category it will mess everyone else in that category over. This would not be something IMDb would prioritize to check and verify I am afraid. What matters I think is the downsides vs the upsides, this suggestion is a great one in theory, but hard to pull off in practice due to contributors themself having to do it (Which will not include everyone that should do it) or staff having to do so. (Which would not be accurate, use staff time etc.) PS: Just me doing some critical thinking about if it would be feasible or not.

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@Col_Needham​ Hi, Col! Nice to be back in the top 100 (and with my highest total in quite a while). A couple of questions, and a nagging problem: I just recently looked at the page listing/describing IMDb badges (hadn't run across it before), and a couple caught my attention, as they're not on my page but should be (in at least one case). I don't have the Beta Tester badge, but I know I was involved in that capacity with the rollout of Full Episode Support, and possibly when the site-based (replacing email-based) submission system was introduced a few years earlier. I also noticed the Contrib. Helper and IMDb Champ badges for providing advice and assistance to other contributors. I know I haven't been involved on Sprinklr, but perhaps you recall that I did a LOT of that on the old Contributors Help board for several years, and I was hoping that at least one of those badges might be posted to my profile to recognize that. As for the nagging problem, I've been having a LOT of difficulty in the last few weeks with cast deletions/corrections (generally for talk/news shows), for submissions completely in line with previous submissions that have gone through without any problem. Sometimes I send in completely identical revisions for multiple titles, and only some are approved while others are rejected on the basis of needing more details or not meeting guidelines; it's really puzzling (and exhausting, as I sometimes resubmit with lengthy explanations - sometimes more than once - before they get approved). Here's a few of the more puzzling recent examples (some were eventually approved after multiple attempts): 220113-231236-323000 220113-215039-367000 220113-220550-832000 220112-031545-850000 220111-225354-051000 220111-224413-964000 220111-223501-079000 220107-164708-167000 220107-163845-116000 220104-160535-277000 211231-044503-575000 In addition, I've submitted a number of changes for episode "titles" of daily news/talk shows that haven't gone through; if you look, it's obvious that in a number of the cases, one of the guests submitted titles and plot summaries that focused on themselves: 211226-164416-620000 211226-164528-651000 211226-164746-957000 211226-170629-443000 211226-171236-757000 Anyway, thanks for any assistance you can provide, and here's looking forward to another great year!

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@Col_Needham​ OK, thanks; disappointing about the badges, as that seems to favor newer contributors, so here's hoping you're right about the "missing" badges. Some (though not all) of the processing problems have been resolved; I know there are always issues with vacations and people filling in around the New Year, and some of it might be chalked up to that. Thanks again.

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@Col_Needham​ OK, here are a couple of new rejections for Michelle to ponder: 220116-043634-661000 220116-043557-941000 220116-044637-678000 220116-044557-514000

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@Col_Needham​ Hello How did I go last year? Thanks Silitonga's Profile - IMDb (www.imdb.com/user/ur22084305/)

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@Col_Needham​ And here's another exaspersting series of submissions for one credit, a simple correction of cast ordering that's been repeatedly declined for unfathomable reasons (two people currently credited 3rd, and I'm simply trying to shift one of them to 5th): 220203-041502-189000 220205-175217-508000 220205-212449-950000

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@gary_krause_dsb3tl1xamjcb​ You should start a thread in the problem section for these posts like Col advised in his post, you'll stand a way better chance of it being taken care of than lost in the crowd of an old announcement thread. Good luck.

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Happy New Year! Where did I place? (https://www.imdb.com/user/ur5345592)

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@Col_Needham can you public a list for December too?

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@Col_Needham how many i did add in December?

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@Col_Needhamno problem, i did find out i had 338.527 in december

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Happy New Year, Col! I was a bit busier than normal and feel like I didn't contribute as much this last year. Curious just how low my place was. Thanks!

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And Happy New Year for everyone too

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https://www.imdb.com/user/ur110141229/?ref_=nv_usr_prof_2 Can u rate me 🙏

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@Col_Needham i didnt see the new view till now, its wonderfull

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@Col_Needham the problem with the new view is it shows not everything, its the oldest shown

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Happy New Year! Where did I place, please? (https://www.imdb.com/user/ur0301684/)

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Wow - I must have been very lowly, even though I think I wasted much too much time in front of tube last year!

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Happy New Year 2022 to Col Needham and the IMDb team can you tell me my ranking for 2021 Thanks

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Out of interest, what kind of data are you guys mostly posting? I would assume that movie producers/studios generally supply all the info about their films right? Obviously it's in their interests to do so. Is it mainly goofs, trivia etc you're providing? Or are they entries for obscure/lost films?

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@AlbertoTreaddur I started to add info about series from the NRK (Norwegian state televisjon) since they have an API and most of the stuff was missing. Then I moved onto podcasts from Norway. And then other countries. So my submissions are mainly new series, episodes, podcasts etc.

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@Nomissimon10 Well.. .let me just say a personal HUGE THANK YOU to all of you. IMDb is absolutely wonderful and I use it every single day of my life for something or other. Your collective work is very much appreciated.

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I am concentrating on series, mostly german but worldwide too and much on the program of Arte, the german-french TV station

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and everything i find what is missing, TV documentaries, short movies, release dates, distributors etc. etc.

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i started in spring cause i wanted to add an movie to my watchlist but couldnt find it, than i added this movie here and than it got more and more

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@AlbertoTreaddur Thanks for the kind words.

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Woo hoo! I moved up 3 spots from 25 to 22 this year. Way too much work though!

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@adrian to get better is always good, i want first place this year

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@clematt1000 I will probably fall next year. It's hard to enter this much data manually. I feel like this is about all I do all day long!

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@adrian yes its much work but its fun too

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Borrow a bot...?

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4 years ago

@Col_Needham Happy New Year and thank you for all your hard work. I'm sure there are many that appreciate it. May I please know my place? Thanks Karan A Silverstein https://m.imdb.com/user/ur24249399

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Thank you for such a prompt reply. Stay safe. KAS

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@Col_Needham how far have i fallen?

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Happy New Year everyone! I'm curious about my stats last year. Thanks.

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Col: Could you post my rank and number of contributions? Thanks.

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Happy New Year

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Hey Col, Happy New Year. Mind telling me where I placed this year?

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@Col_Needham It ends up here: https://www.imdb.com/user/ur78137797/

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I have a question regarding the 2021 year end totals. The top contributor: Rank Submissions Nickname 1 3,232,592 inespape-1 3.2 million edits. Maybe I am confused, but is that 3.2 million contributions? When I look at the math, 3.2 million contributions would equal one submission every 10 seconds, providing inespape-1 doesn't sleep, eat, work, go to the bathroom (I suppose if they don't eat that wouldn't matter). How does this work? Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled 2021 year end totals

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@DrProfessor I gave a reply to the two different ways this can work. But I can recap: 1. Collective group of people adding on the same account 2. Bot/Computer program This would mean the person has made a computer program collecting and uploading information from different sources. This is done (almost) automatically.

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Happy New Year everyone! May I please ask which number I reached?

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