
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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Top 300 Contributor Leaderboard for April 2022
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 discussion. We appre
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Top 300 Contributor Leaderboard for March 2022
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 discussion. We ap
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INTRODUCING: Updates to Name Updates
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 I chan
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Top 300 Contributor Leaderboard for January 2022
Come and join the discussion. We appreciate all of your feedback on the leaderboard experience. ranknicktotal1Nomissimon10818,4122SkipEastport510,2983matthias_metzger439,1994inespape-1237,7155arshela77,7976cinelamour64,8647formulakaz54,8198apostolis198952,0209BonaFideBOSS40,97210RitaAbbas40,58511Zal
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Top 300 Contributor Leaderboard for February 2022
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.
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Updates to Plot Outlines
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 person, and
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Contribution: Showrunners and Head writers
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 title (som
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Languages and Countries tags for Poster contributions
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
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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, pl
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Top 300 Contributor Leaderboard for November
Hi all! Welcome to the final monthly top contributor leaderboard update of the year. The below is the top 300 by approved items submitted throughout November. As ever, the movement column references the previous rankings from the October top contributor leaderboard. Come and join the discussion. We
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