
Data Issues & Policy Discussions
This category is managed by our IMDb Content team. IMDb Content is the team that collects and manages the content that makes IMDb authoritative & accurate. We depend upon our users to supply the majority of our content, and will use this space to both answer questions and collect ideas for how to make IMDb more authoritative, accurate, and easy to add to.
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IMDb Data – Now available in Amazon S3
This is an announcement for customers of the IMDb bulk data available via FTP. We are pleased to announce, starting today IMDb datasets are now available in Amazon S3 via an HTTPS link. Using the new interface, customers can bulk-access IMDb title and name data. For details on the S3 solution, file
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Contribution Experience Update: Responsive CX
Hi,Today (July 23, 2020) we have made an update to our primary contribution experience (accessible from the button on all name, title and company pages) to make it work responsively based on your device type.For contributors accessing our contribution interface from desktop, the experience is almost
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Contribution Beta Opportunity: Multi-lingual Plot Outlines
Hi, Throughout 2019, our team has been working on features that ensure we can support the contribution, vetting, storage and publication of content for our global entertainment audience. We have, to date, launched:- IMDb Answers, which surfaces high-value content that is missing from IMDb for multip
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Contribution Feature: Multi-lingual Plot Outlines
Today (March 6, 2020), the team has extended our Multi-lingual plot contribution feature (referenced in this post -> https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/contribution-beta-opportunity-multi-lingual-plot-outlines ) to all contributors. From today, all contributors are able to submit multi-lingual
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Deprecation of encoding attributes for alternate titles
We're pleased to announce a simplification to the contribution guidelines for alternate titles.We recently upgraded our systems so that the following attributes are no longer needed to perform the correct character encoding. We have therefore replaced all these attributes with imdb display title (or
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Changes to Script & Continuity credits
Hi all,Just a quick announcement regarding Script & Continuity credits listed on IMDb.In our continued efforts to accurately reflect the work of those in the industry and expand our ability to display data in the most authentic way - we'll be moving a large number of credits relating to Script & Con
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Contribution: Name Suggestion Search
We are pleased to announce, starting today we have added Name Suggestion Search to IMDb’s Filmography contribution form. As you begin entering a name, we will now provide suggestions based on what you’ve typed and the context of the submission (for example, for the TV Show “Game of Thrones”, as you
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Changes to formats supported for creating links within contributions
Today, Wednesday 15th November 2017, we will begin the roll-out of changes to the types of linking formats supported within our contribution interfaces. Currently within our contribution interfaces we support two types of linking. They are:- [link=nm1234567] for names and [link=tt1234567] for titles
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IMDb Top 250 Data Contributors for 2018
Included below is our end-of-year message to IMDb's top 250 data contributors for 2018. Thanks again to everyone who contributed to IMDb -- every data contribution helps. If anyone outside of the top 250 would like to know their 2018 (only) live item total and position in the complete list, please p
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Contribution outage due to routine maintenance (now completed)
Hi all, Quick heads up for you all that due to routine maintenance, our contribution system will be unavailable for a short time today (25th October) - during this time you may receive an error when trying to submit any updates via our submission interface. This maintenance shouldn't take long, at w
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