New Contribution Feature (Beta): IMDb Answers

Hi, Thanks for the feedback. What the feature does is show titles that are being looked at (in a real time window), or are in theaters from a particular country. In the examples you have called out, users in Japan will have been looking at the titles. We will make this clearer in the help text for the feature. One additional feature we are considering is the addition of a filter for title production country . This would allow you to see the most popular Japanese titles being looked at by customers in Japan (or any other country). From your description above, I think that is what you would find useful? Cheers, Rachel

Thank you for your answer. Yes, indeed the second option would be more useful as a contributor.

Thanks, I've added it to our backlog of feature requests.

New Contribution Feature (Beta) When's it going to end?

Hi, I'm not familiar with that feature myself. Cheers, Rachel

Hi, We are looking to extend the feature for other countries. It would be good to start collating that list (and I have added Tunisia to our backlog). Thanks for the feedback! Cheers, Rachel

hi Rachel, please add Israel (when you will extend to other countries), thanks, Orit

Thanks for the detail. We are looking at improving the link experience.Regarding Video Games, the feature works on trending titles for a country of any type, then filters the list to the title type you select. In this instance, there are no video games meeting the trending threshold (I've added this to the backlog of items to address as we have had a couple of reports of contributors running our of items in the feed).

Thanks for the feedback. I've added the Philippines to our backlog. Cheers, Rachel

Hi, Thanks for the feedback. Are you interested in Norwegian movies that are popular in Norway? I'll add that country to our backlog. Cheers, Rachel

I'm interested in all types of films, as a film buff.I try to see all Norwegian movies, but I see 800 films a year, so I try to see everything quality that comes my way. I've also contributed with much over the years to help imdb be better, and make imdb more interesting to Norwegian users, after almost 20 years as a member.

Thanks for the feedback, and all of your contributions. We are looking at ways to make the feature more flexible so that our contributors can see data missing from titles and names that they would be interested in adding. Hearing all of the ways our contributors would like to do this is very helpful to the team. Cheers, Rachel

Hi, Just so that I can understand correctly, you would like us to surface titles that do not have goofs and trivia? Cheers, Rachel

Hi, The children/parent issue is a bug we are working on addressing. When this is fixed, there is an option to select 'No Children' Thanks for the feedback on not making contribution an option when the data is not available. We have an item on our backlog to do this (which is more important for certain data types like certificates (or running times, as you mention), which are usually only available in the weeks prior to release. Cheers, Rachel

Hi, Apologies for the delay, but we have just addressed the bug with the family relationship data type. You should now have no issues. Cheers, Rachel

Hi,You aren't mistaken, there were two additional links within a Data Research section on the /czone which has been replaced by the IMDb Answers box:-1) Popular Titles with No Quotes -> https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?has=!quotes&languages=en&num_votes=1000%2C&title_type...2) Shorts with a Running Time over 46 mins -> https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?runtime=46,&title_type=short These are both Advance Title Searches which to not include a quick link to contribute the missing data (as IMDb Answers does). We re-used the 'Data Research' slot for the IMDb Answers feature. Would it be useful to have them linked from somewhere else, or would you prefer to bookmark them? Cheers, Rachel

I fully agree with Phil. I didn't ask for (just) myself, but for the community of contributors.

I agree with Phil G and Marco too.

Hi, Good feedback, thanks. Do you have other examples of this type of Advanced Search that it would be useful to include at the same time we re-instate the ones that were previously linked? Cheers, Rachel

According to the bio trivia guide (https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/names-biographical-data/biographical-data-guidelines/GMT9...), ""same birthday as" someone else, unless it's particularly interesting because of some kind of very significant connection between the two people (other than being a twin, which should be explicitly noted), is no longer accepted." However, there are still quite some of these out there: https://www.imdb.com/search/name-text/?trivia=same+birthday+asAccording to the same guide "Bio trivia items should add directly or indirectly to the distinctive attributes of a person and provide/give an insight to that particular person rather than common trivia that could apply to most other people (i.e. "is a vegetarian" or "likes dogs").". This means a person's star sign should NOT be listed, yet it is for quite a bit of people: https://www.imdb.com/search/name-text/?trivia=star-sign. The same goes for people's blood type: https://www.imdb.com/search/name-text/?trivia=blood+type

As I've said over a year ago (https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/blocking-tv-shows-that-cant-be-that-old), there are no blocks on adding an impossibly early year to most title types. In said thread, I explained why I believe certain years are the earliest years for those title types. Any listings from before that time are wrong.So would you add the following? TV series from before 1931: https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=tv_series&release_date=,1931-01-01

On this one specifically, it looks like a number of these are 'series' that were released theatrically.

Yeah, the cartoons (like Betty Boop) can be seen like that. But that's not the same as a tv series. (just like a serial is a whole other animal than a tv series)

Rachel: What Marco said. If the title isn't a TV series, it shouldn't be listed as such. Theatrical series aren't meant to be entered as TV series. Not to mention that among the entries in Marco's search result above, we also have titles that look like they have been assigned to the wrong year, such as "US Presidential Elections" (1928), "US Midterm Elections" (1930) (both supposedly BBC television series), and "FoxyTV" (1916) (more likely a 21st century show than one from the World War I era). There's also "WSB News" (1922), which appears to be oriented toward describing the radio station of that name rather than something eligible for IMDb listing.

Do you have other examples of this type of Advanced Search that it would be useful to include at the same time we re-instate the ones that were previously linked? Any word on this?

HI, As I mentioned above, this is a bug that we are working to address. Thanks for the feedback. Cheers, Rachel

Thank you.

This issue has now been fixed. Cheers, Rachel

Hi, Rachel! Are you planning to add other countries to the list of available? In particular, Russia or any countries of the former Soviet Union? Both for alternative titles and for posters, as well as for the plot outlines. I contribute alternative titles rather often. Thanks!

We are looking to support additional countries in the future.

Hello @Rachel​ 2 years have passed but a significant number of languages and countries have not been added 🙁, please allow participation in languages such as Arabic, Persian, Urdu, etc. that have similar characters. Of course, countries are also very imperfect; Please hurry, the imdb website has been active for 30 years but is still lagging behind in multilingualism. Thankful