
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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Contribution outage due to routine maintenance
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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Contribution Guidelines Update: Regional Company Pages
We’d like to announce a clarification to the contribution guidelines for companies and company filmographies.Companies should not have separate IMDb pages for each region they have distribution or sales credits in. If a certain company has distribution or sales credits in more than one region, then
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"Provide an Explanation" Now Available on Adds in our Submission Form
I am pleased to announce that users can now submit an optional explanation with any addition for any list type available in our main submission form, allowing them the opportunity to provide additional evidence to our data editors at the point of submission. Previously, this option was limited to co
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[Completed] Contribution outage due to routine maintenance
Hi all, Quick heads up for you all that due to routine maintenance, our contribution system will be unavailable for a short time today (22nd August) - 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 wh
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New Filmography cast addition interface now available via IMDbPro desktop
- 5th June 2019 -Hi all, We're excited to announce the launch of a new cast contribution feature on IMDbPro.com.As always, this launch is part of our continuing efforts to enhance your experience, provide feature simplifications to improve usability, and identify opportunities to bring consistency a
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Get Satisfaction Community Server Issues
Get Satisfaction is experiencing server issues preventing replies within the community as well as access to threads. The Get Satisfaction technical team are aware of the issue and are working on a fix, expected within the next 4-5 hours. In the meantime, to help find answers to questions please revi
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View Contribution Status - New Data Types Launched!
We are pleased to announce an update to your contribution experience. As of today, contributors can view the status of more data types than ever before! You will see the new option to “Track your contribution” or“View Contribution Status” where you can view the status of the item and if it has been
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Filmography cast contributions now available for IMDbPro app users
15th March 2019 -- we are pleased to announce the launch of Filmography Cast Credit contributions to IMDbPro members via their name page on the IMDbPro App (available on iOS and Android). With a new redesigned look you can make sure your credits are kept up-to-date, even when you're away from home.
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New IMDb Help hub
Hi everyone, We are thrilled to announce we have published a new Help hub for IMDb fans, IMDbPro members and Data Contributors. This hub, available at https://help.imdb.com, replaces the help content previously residing on http://www.imdb.com/help/, http://pro.imdb.com/help/ and https://contribute.i
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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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