Data Issues & Policy Discussions

Hi,Today we are launching a beta for a new contribution feature, IMDb Answers.IMDb Answers surfaces high-value content that is missing from IMDb. These gaps are shown as an updating feed of questions with calls to action for contributions to add the missing data.The feature is focused on ensuring we

Hi all! Welcome to April’s top contributor leaderboard update. The below is our top 300 contributors by approved items submitted throughout April. As ever the movement column references the previous rankings - in this case the March top contributor leaderboard.   Come and join the discu

Hi all! Welcome to March’s top contributor leaderboard update. The below is our top 300 contributors by approved items submitted throughout March. As ever the movement column references the previous rankings - in this case the February top contributor leaderboard.   Come and join the di

We’re excited to announce that we have separated the experience for name correction and name merges. We identified this as a common cause for confusion as per the feedback to us. We hope this change is helpful. For further details on how to contribute, please see our Names help article How do

Hi all! Welcome to the first monthly top contributor leaderboard of 2022. The below is the top 300 by approved items submitted throughout January.   Come and join the discussion. We appreciate all of your feedback on the leaderboard experience.     rank nick total 1 Nomissimon1

Hi all! Welcome to February’s top contributor leaderboard update. The below is the top 300 by approved items submitted throughout February. As ever, the movement column references the previous rankings – in this case, the January top contributor leaderboard.     Come and join

On Oct 25, 2021, we discontinued displaying the "By: line" for Plot Outlines. As a result we are no longer accepting the contribution of the "By:" line and this has been removed from the contribution flow.   This change is based on the fact that outlines are rarely attributed to one single pers

Hi All, We have published a new contribution guideline around showrunners and head writers.   A showrunner is the unofficial title given to the top-level creative decision maker and manager overseeing all episodes of an individual season of a television/episodic series. A head writer is the t

We are pleased to announce an update to the image contribution experience. As of today, contributors can tag languages and countries in Posters. You will see the new fields in the image contribution interface once 'Select A Type' is changed to'Poster'. If an image is a poster you can tag it with the

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, pl