Data Issues & Policy Discussions

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.

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

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

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

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

Hi all, We are pleased to announce a change to our alternate title policy listed under the Attribute definitions section of the guide. Please see the below. Our goal at IMDb is to be able to represent to any customer in any locale (speaking language and country) what a title is known as. For example

Included below is our end-of-year message to IMDb's top 300 data contributors for 2020. Thanks again to everyone who contributed to IMDb -- every data contribution helps. If anyone outside of the top 300 would like to know their 2020 (only) live item total and position in the complete list, please p

Included below is our end-of-year message to IMDb's top 300 data contributors for 2019. Thanks again to everyone who contributed to IMDb -- every data contribution helps. If anyone outside of the top 300 would like to know their 2019 (only) live item total and position in the complete list, please p

Our technical team has now resolved the Contribution Form problem and non-English characters for names and titles are now accepted within the form. We apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for your patience!