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-| nom = Internet Movie Database (IMDB)+| name = IMDB
-| favicon = +| logo = [[Image:IMDb.gif]]
-| logo = [[Image:IMDb.Logo.png|center|IMDb's Official Logo]]+| screenshot = [[Image:Imdb07.jpg|280px|]]
-| image = +| caption = IMDb Home Page in 2007
-| description = +| url = [http://www.imdb.com/ www.imdb.com]
-| url = [http://www.imdb.com www.imdb.com]+| commercial = Yes
-| commercial = oui+| type = Online movie, TV, and video game databases
-| type = [[Base de données]] répertoriant des [[films]], des [[séries télé]] et des [[jeux vidéo]]+| language = [[English language|English]]
-| langue = [[Anglais]]+| registration = Optional
-| inscription = facultative+| owner = [[Amazon.com]]
-| propriétaire = [[Amazon.com]]+| author = [[Col Needham]]
-| auteur = [[Col Needham]]+| launch date = [[October 17]] [[1990]]
-| date de lancement = [[17 octobre]] [[1990]]+| current status = Active
-| état actuel = en activité+| revenue =
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-L''''Internet Movie Database''' ('''IMDb''' ou ''Base de données cinématographiques de l'Internet'') est une base de données en ligne sur le cinéma mondial, restituant gratuitement les informations concernant les films, les acteurs, actrices, réalisatrices, réalisateurs, scénaristes et toutes personnes et entreprises intervenant dans l'élaboration d'un film, d'un téléfilm, d'une série TV ou d'un jeu vidéo. +The '''Internet Movie Database''' ('''IMDb''') is an [[online]] [[database]] of information about [[film|movies]], [[actor]]s, [[Television program|television shows]], production crew personnel, and [[video games]]. IMDb launched on [[October 17]], [[1990]], and in [[1998]] was acquired by [[Amazon.com]].
-== Description ==+==Overview==
-Elle est la propriété d'[[Amazon.com]], mais son enrichissement et sa mise à jour sont ouverts, gratuitement, à tout individu doté d'une adresse de [[courrier électronique]] et d'un accès à [[Internet]], quelle que soit sa nationalité. Elle a officiellement fêté son 15{{e}} anniversaire<ref>[http://french.imdb.com/features/15thanniversary/ 15{{e}} anniversaire]</ref> le [[17 octobre]] [[2005]].+The IMDb website consists of the largest accumulation of user-based data about films, television programs, [[direct-to-video]] products, and video games reaching back to each medium's respective beginning. In many cases, the information goes beyond simple title or press credits to include complete cast and crew credits, uncredited personnel, [[production]] and [[distribution]] companies, plot summaries, memorable quotes, [[awards]], [[reviews]], [[box office]] performance, filming locations, technical specs, promotional content, [[trivia]], and links to official and other websites. Furthermore, the IMDb tracks titles in production, including major announced projects still in development. The database also houses filmographies for all persons, cast and crew, identified in listed titles. Filmographies include biographical details, awards listings, external links, and information about other professional work not covered by title entries in the database such as theatrical and commercial advertising appearances. The IMDb also offers ancillary material such as daily movie and TV news, weekly box office reports, TV listings, cinema showtimes, user polls and ratings, and special features about various movie events such as the [[Academy Awards]]. The website also has an active message board system. There are message boards for each database entry, found at the bottom of each respective page, as well as general discussion boards on various topics.
-L'accès général est effectué par le site en anglais<ref>[http://www.imdb.com accès général]</ref>. Une interface partiellement francisée est disponible<ref>[http://french.imdb.com interface francisée]</ref>.+The IMDb is a free site, which requires registration to access its complete range of data and activities, although verification can sometimes require personal financial information such as credit card details. Any person with an [[e-mail]] account and a [[web browser]] that accepts [[HTTP cookie|cookies]] can set up an account with IMDb that allows them to submit information and engage in other site activities. As of Wednesday, Oct 10, 2007 imdb.com had 17,000,000 registered users.
-L'IMDb est la plus grosse base de données collaborative du monde, avec des informations sur plus d'un million d'œuvres visuelles et plus de 2,5 millions de personnes<ref>[http://imdb.com/database_statistics http://imdb.com/database_statistics statistiques détaillées]</ref>. De manière plus détaillée, l'IMDb propose non seulement les génériques de films ou filmographies d'acteurs ou de techniciens, mais également les synopsis, les biographies, des critiques, des informations budgétaires ou relatives à la bande originale, des anecdotes et bêtisiers, les liens avec d'autres films et versions alternatives, des informations techniques (durée, ratio d'écran, largeur de pellicule, procédé couleur, etc.), les dates de sorties, etc. Les séries TV sont largement couvertes ainsi que les jeux vidéo. Enfin une interface dédiée permet d'afficher tous les titres connus d'une œuvre<ref>[http://akas.imdb.com/ interface aux titres connus d'une œuvre]</ref>.+Site visitors wishing only to view information without accessing interactive features can do so without registration. Database content is largely provided and updated by a cadre of volunteer contributors; although 20 members of the IMDb staff are dedicated to monitoring received data.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://us.imdb.com/help/show_leaf?imdbstaff|title=Meet the staff|publisher=IMDb |accessdate=2007-06-07}}</ref> For automated queries, most of the database can be downloaded as [[data compression|compressed]] plain text files and the information can be extracted using the tools provided, typically using a [[command line interface]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://imdb.com/interfaces|title=Alternate Interfaces|publisher=IMDb |accessdate=2007-01-15}}</ref>
-Sur la base des notes données par les utilisateurs, l'IMDb propose également un classement permanent des films<ref>[http://french.imdb.com/top_250_films Top 250 Classement] [http://french.imdb.com/bottom_100_films et classement des 100 plus mauvais films]</ref>, établi selon un calcul de pondérations.+In 2002, the IMDb spun off a private, subscription-funded site, IMDbPro, offering the entire content of the database plus additional information for business professionals, such as personnel contact details, titles in development, movie event calendars, and a greater range of industry news.
-Parmi les services annexes proposés par l'IMDb, il est possible de connaître les passages de films à la télévision (américaine...), les récompenses et palmarès, les éphémérides du cinéma, etc. L'IMDb a une petite sœur, IMDbPro, destinée aux professionnels du spectacle (principalement américains) : carnet d'adresses, calendriers, informations professionnelles. Elle est accessible sur abonnement payant (essai de 2 semaines gratuit).+==History==
 +===In rec.arts.movies===
 +The database originated from two lists started as independent projects in early 1989 by participants in the [[Usenet]] [[newsgroup]] rec.arts.movies. In each case, a single maintainer recorded items [[email]]ed by newsgroup readers, and posted updated versions of his list from time to time. [[Google Groups]] coverage of rec.arts.movies is incomplete during the relevant time period, with a 6-month gap in late 1988 and early 1989 and a number of missing articles after that.
-==Historique==+It began with a posting titled "Those Eyes", on the subject of [[actress]]es with beautiful eyes. [[Hank Driskill]] began to collect a list of sexy actresses and what movies they had appeared in, and as the size of the repeated posting grew far beyond a normal newsgroup article, it soon became known simply as "THE LIST".
-La base de donnée, fondée en [[1990]] par [[Col Needham]], de l'université de [[Cardiff]] ([[Pays de Galles]]), était à l'origine une collection de scripts pouvant être utilisés afin d'effectuer des recherches dans les [[FAQ]] postés dans les groupes de discussion [[Usenet]] <tt>rec.arts.movies</tt>. +The other project, started by Chuck Musciano, was briefly called the "Movie Ratings List" and soon became the "Movie Ratings Report". Musciano simply asked readers to rate movies on a scale of one to ten, and reported on the votes. He soon began posting "ballots" with lists of movies for people to rate, so his list also grew quickly.
-En [[1993]], une interface courriel centralisée permettant d'émettre des recherches dans la base de données est créée et, en [[1994]], cette interface est ouverte à l'apport d'informations. La base de données est ensuite dotée d'une interface [[web]] fonctionnant initialement sur un réseau de sites-miroirs fournissant de la bande passante. Parallèlement à cette version web, l'IMDb était à l'époque téléchargeable intégralement (avec un système de mises à jour régulières), l'utilisateur pouvait naviguer dans ces données grâce à un logiciel développé par la communauté du [[logiciel libre]]. En [[1996]], le projet se dote d'un statut d'entreprise au [[Royaume-Uni]] de manière à former l'Internet Movie Database Ltd., et des bannières publicitaires sont ajoutées au site Internet.+In 1990, [[Col Needham]] collated the two lists and produced a "Combined LIST & Movie Ratings Report".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.movies/msg/0203e8ba735348fd?dmode=source&hl=en|title= MRRLIST: Combined LIST & Movie Ratings Report|publisher=Google Inc.|accessdate=2007-01-15}}</ref> (His first posting of the database scripts is not available.) Needham soon started a (male) "[[Actor]]s List", while [[Dave Knight]] began a "[[film director|Directors]] List", and [[Andy Krieg]] took over THE LIST, which would later be renamed as the "Actress List". Both this and the Actors List had been restricted to people who were still alive and working, but retired people began to be added, and Needham also started what was then (but did not remain) a separate "Dead Actors/Actresses List". The goal now was to make the lists as inclusive as the maintainers could manage.
 +In late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 [[movies]] and [[television series]]. On [[October 17]], [[1990 in film|1990]], Needham posted a collection of [[Unix]] [[shell script]]s which could be used to search the four lists, and the database that would become the IMDb was born. At the time, it was known as the "rec.arts.movies movie database".
-En avril [[1998]], l'entreprise est rachetée par [[Amazon.com]], le propriétaire à ce jour. Un certain nombre de fondateurs, dont Col Needham, sont restés gérants du site.+===On the web===
 +By [[1993 in film|1993]], the database had been expanded to include additional categories of filmmakers and other demographic material, as well as [[trivia]], [[biographies]], and [[Plot (narrative)|plot summaries]]; the movie ratings had been properly integrated with the list data; and a centralized email interface for querying the database had been created. Later in the year, it moved onto to the [[World Wide Web]] (a network in its infancy back then) under the name of ''Cardiff Internet Movie Database''. The database resided on the [[Server (computing)|server]]s of the computer science department of [[Cardiff University]] in [[Wales]]. [[Rob Hartill]] was the original web interface author. In [[1994 in film|1994]], the email interface was revised to accept the submission of all information, meaning that people no longer had to email the specific list maintainer with their updates. However, the structure remained that information received on a single film was divided among multiple section managers, the sections being defined and determined by categories of film personnel and the individual filmographies contained therein. Its management also continued to be in the hands of a small contingent of underpaid or volunteer "section managers" who were receiving ever-growing quantities of information on films from around the world and across time from contributors of widely varying level of expertise and informational resources. Despite the annual claims of Needham, in a year-end report newsletter to the Top fifty contributors, that "fewer holes" must now remain for the coming year, the amount of information still missing from the database was vastly underestimated. Over the next few years, the database was run on a network of [[mirror (computing)|mirrors]] across the world with donated bandwidth.
-==Droit d'auteur==+===As an independent company===
 +In 1995, it became obvious to the principal site managers that the project had become too large to maintain merely through donations and in their spare time. The decision was made to become a commercial venture and in 1996, IMDb was incorporated in the [[United Kingdom]], becoming the Internet Movie Database Ltd, with [[Col Needham]] the primary owner as well as identified figurehead. The remaining shareholders were the people maintaining the database. Revenue was generated through advertising, licensing and partnerships.
-Tout intervenant contribuant bénévolement à l'IMDb conserve son droit d'auteur sur sa production, mais en autorise implicitement la reproduction ou la modification. +This state of affairs continued until 1998. The database was growing every day, and it was again reaching a critical point. Most revenues were being spent on equipment, and there was not enough money left over to pay full time salaries. The system was also suffering noticeable slowdowns both in accessing the site and in having new data posted. Offers were solicited and received from major businesses to purchase the database; however, the shareholders were unwilling to sell if it could not be guaranteed that the information would be accessible to the internet community for free.
-L'IMDb de son côté n'autorise aucune citation de synopsis ou biographie sans autorisation expresse. +===As a subsidiary company===
 +In 1998, [[Jeff Bezos]], founder, owner and CEO of [[Amazon.com]] struck a deal with Col Needham and other principal shareholders, to buy IMDb outright and attach it to his corporate empire as a subsidiary, private company.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=37602|title=News Release|publisher=PR Newswire Europe Ltd.|accessdate=2007-01-15}}</ref> This gave IMDb the ability to pay the shareholders salaries for their work, while Amazon.com would be able to use the IMDb as an advertising resource for selling [[DVD]]s and [[videotape]]s. Volunteer contributors were not advised in advance of even the possibility of IMDb - and their contributions along with it - being sold to a private business, which created some initial discord and defection of regulars.
-Il est également interdit de filtrer par logiciel le contenu du site pour en exclure les bandeaux publicitaires. +IMDb continues to expand its functionality. In 2002, it added a subscription service known as IMDbPro aimed at entertainment professionals. It provides a variety of services including [[film production|production]] and [[box office]] details, as well as a company directory. Most information contained in the IMDb database proper continues to come from volunteer researchers. An additional incentive, since 2003, is that if they are identified as being one of "the top 100 contributors" in terms of amounts of hard data submitted, they receive complimentary free access to IMDbPro for the following calendar year; for 2006 this was increased to the top 150 contributors.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://uk.imdb.com/board/bd0000042/thread/62663696?d=62663696#62663696|title=IMDb announcement: Top 150 Contributors for 2006|publisher=IMDb messageboard posting (requires registration)|accessdate=2007-07-15}}</ref>
-Des citations partielles de génériques et filmographies sont autorisées sur les sites web sans but lucratif.+==TV episodes==
 +On [[26 January]] [[2006]], the long-awaited "Full Episode Support" came online, allowing the database to support separate cast and crew listings for each episode of every TV series. This was described by Col Needham as "the largest change we've ever made to our data model," and increased the number of titles in the database from 485,000 to nearly 750,000.
-== Notes et références de l'article ==+At present, the database entries for TV series are in a state of flux, as listings are migrated from series titles to individual episodes. The maintainers anticipated "a couple of months for data to settle down and bugs to be ironed out", but inaccuracies were still present one year later.
-{{reflist}}+==Characters filmography==
 +On [[2 October]] [[2007]] the characters filmography feature was launched. The feature is similar to the existing title, name and company feature, except now users can see by whom a certain character was played, read memorable quotes and a biography about the character. All data in the characters filmography is submitted by regular users and is largely not verified by the IMDb staff, in comparison to most other data that is first verified and might be rejected by the staff. This is possibly because very little new data is sent in, but rather already existing data is being connected together.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://imdb.com/swiki/special?CharacterHelp | title=Character Help Overview | publisher=IMDb | accessdate=2007-10-02}}</ref>
-== Voir aussi ==+== Ancillary features ==
-=== Articles connexes ===+===User ratings of films===
 +[[Image:IMDB top 250.svg|thumb|250px|IMDb top 250 films, plotted by year and the sum of the ratings for movies from that year.]]
 +As one adjunct to data, the IMDb offers a [[rating scale]] which allows users to rate films by choosing one of ten categories in the range 1–10, with each user able to submit one rating. The points of reference given to users of these categories are the descriptions "1 (awful)" and "10 (excellent)"; and these are the only descriptions of categories. Due to the minimum category being scored one, the mid-point of the ''range'' of scores is 5.5, rather than 5.0 as might intuitively be expected given a maximum score of ten. This rating system has also recently been implemented for television programming on an episode-by-episode basis.
-* [[AlloCiné]]+In adopting this method, IMDb is following its widespread usage; the method is the same as rating in the range of a half star to five stars. When used in reviews by a single reviewer, the method has some basic utility given a rating is usually given in the context of a qualitative appraisal of the film. The simplicity of this method makes it popular, but in terms of [[psychometric]], statistical, and other criteria, the method suffers shortcomings (see [[Rating scale|online rating scales]]).
-=== Liens et documents externes ===+====Filters and weights====
 +IMDb indicates that submitted ratings are filtered and weighted in various ways in order to produce a [[weighted mean]] that is displayed for each film, series, and so on. It states that filters are used to avoid [[ballot stuffing|vote stuffing]]; the method is not described in detail to avoid attempts to circumvent it.
-* {{fr}} [http://www.bifi.fr/ BiFi - Bibliothèque du film]+====Ranking====
-* {{fr}} [http://www.cnc.fr/ CNC - Centre national du cinéma]+The IMDb Top 250 is intended to be a listing of the top 'rated' 250 films, based on ratings by the registered users of the website using the methods described.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.imdb.com/top_250_films|title=Top 250 movies as voted by our users|publisher=IMDb| accessdate=2007-03-01}}</ref> Only non-documentary theatrical releases running at least forty-five minutes with over 1300 ratings are considered; all other products are ineligible<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.imdb.com/help/search?domain=helpdesk_faq&index=1&file=notintop250|title=Types of titles excluded from the Top 250|publisher=IMDb| accessdate=2007-04-25}}</ref>. Also, the 'top 250' rating is based on only the ratings of "regular voters" (IMDb does not define this term). In addition to other weightings, the top 250 films are also based on a weighted rating formula referred to in actuarial science as a ''credibility formula''.<ref>{{cite paper | url=http://stats.lse.ac.uk/norberg/links/papers/CRED-eas.pdf | title=Credibility Theory| format=.PDF | author=Ragnar Norberg, Department of Statistics |publisher=London School of Economics | accessdate=2007-03-01}}</ref> This label arises because a statistic is taken to be more credible the greater the number of individual pieces of information; in this case from eligible users who submit ratings. IMDb uses the following formula to calculate the weighted rating:
-* {{fr}} [http://www.cbo-boxoffice.com/ CBO-BoxOffice]+
-* {{en}} [http://imdb.com/ '''The Internet Movie Database (IMDb)]''' - Site officiel+
-* {{en}} [http://www.imdbpro.com/ IMDb Pro]+
-* {{Lien Alexa|imdb.com|IMDb}}+
-{{Portail cinéma}}+:<math>W = R{v\over v+m} + C{m\over v+m}\ </math>
 +where:
 +:<math>W\ </math> = Weighted Rating
 +:<math>R\ </math> = average for the movie as a number from 0 to 10 (mean) = (Rating)
 +:<math>v\ </math> = number of votes for the movie = (votes)
 +:<math>m\ </math> = minimum votes required to be listed in the Top 250 (currently 1300)
 +:<math>C\ </math> = the mean vote across the whole report (currently 6.7)
-[[Catégorie:Base de données cinéma sur Internet]]+An extended listing of the Top 500 - following the same formula - is available to IMDbPro subscribers.
 + 
 +The IMDb also has a Bottom 100 feature which is assembled in the same way.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.imdb.com/bottom_100_films | title=Bottom 100 | publisher=IMDb | accessdate=2007-03-01}}</ref> Although the Top 250 films generally do not shift much (the "great" films are typically better known, and therefore have a high number of votes and a higher popularity inertia) the "winner" of the Bottom one hundred changes frequently. The potential for skewing bottom 100 film ratings resulted in an apocryphal account during IMDb's early years in which a disproportionate number of "Bottom 100" films were featured on ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'', which is said to be a result of an ''MST3K'' website encouraging all its users to register with IMDb and vote "1" on films featured on the show.
 + 
 +The top 250 list comprises a wide strata of films, including major releases, cult films, independent films, critically acclaimed films, silent films and foreign films.
 + 
 +===Plot-related features and spoiler warnings===
 + 
 +IMDb main pages for each film include one or more of the sections titled ''Plot outline'', ''Plot synopsis'', and ''Plot keywords'', and separate pages for ''Plot summary'' and ''Plot synopsis''. The ''Plot synopsis'' pages are accessed through links that notify the reader a [[Spoiler (media)|spoiler]] may be included.<ref name="bournemain">{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0440963|title=example of IMDb main film page, with plot outline, plot summary page link, and full plot synopsis link with spoiler warning|publisher=IMDb |accessdate=2007-09-01}}</ref>
 + 
 +The ''plot outline'' is a short summary of the premise with a general overiew, usually not including details that may be considered to be spoilers. The plot outline is presented on the main page for the film if short enough, and if it extends beyond a couple of lines includes a "''more''" link that opens to the ''Plot summary page'' for the film.
 + 
 +On the ''Plot summary page'', IMDb includes the full text of the ''plot outline'', along with the first few lines of the ''plot synopsis'', followed by a link to a further more detailed page, with the link text written as ''"more (warning! contains spoilers)"''.<ref name="bournesummary">{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0440963/plotsummary|title=Plot summary page example with spoiler warning|publisher=IMDb |accessdate=2007-09-01}}</ref>
 + 
 +The ''plot synopsis'' is a more complete summary of the plot that can be edited by readers of IMDb, often including twists and turns that some readers may consider to be spoilers and may not want to know about if they have not yet seen the film.<ref name="synposishelp">{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/swiki/special?SynopsisHelp|title=synopsis user editing instructions|publisher=IMDb |accessdate=2007-09-01}}</ref> IMDB places the synopsis on a separate page, with a link on the film's main page using text that advises the reader as follows: ''"View full synopsis. (warning! may contain spoilers)"''. The separate ''Plot synopsis page'' includes the headline "''Warning! This synopsis contains spoilers. See plot summary for non-spoiler summarized description."''<ref name="bournesynopsis">{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0440963/synopsis|title=Plot synopsis page example with spoiler warning|publisher=IMDb |accessdate=2007-09-01}}</ref>
 + 
 +The IMDb User's Guide advises user contributors to avoid revealing spoilers outside of the synopsis section where they are covered by the spoiler warning in the page headline. IMDb also provides a spoiler warning template for use when spoilers occur in an unexpected location, for example, according to their help page, when a synopsis includes a spoiler for a different movie.<ref name="synposishelp"/> In the IMDb Submission Guide for the "Trivia and Goofs" page section and for their message boards, the guide states that spoilers should be avoided in general in those sections, but that if a spoiler is included, it must be preceded by an announcement, such as using the word "SPOILER:" or their provided spoiler template. <ref name="triviahelp">{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/help/search?domain=helpdesk_faq&index=2&file=tgq_hints|title=Handy Hints - Trivia and Goofs section|publisher=IMDb |accessdate=2007-09-01}}</ref><ref name="goofshelp">{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/help/search?domain=helpdesk_faq&index=2&file=goofs|title=Submission Guide: Goofs section|publisher=IMDb |accessdate=2007-09-01}}</ref><ref name="messageshelp">{{cite web|url=http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Internet_Movie_Database&action=edit&section=12|title=Message Boards Etiquette|publisher=IMDb |accessdate=2007-09-01}}</ref>
 + 
 +''Plot keywords'' are keywords that contributors to the IMDb submit. These are keywords regarding objects and occurrences in each film on the IMDb.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/updates/guide/keywords |title=Submission Guide: Keywords|publisher=IMDb |accessdate=2007-03-01}}</ref>
 + 
 +===Message boards===
 +One of the most used features of the Internet Movie Database is the Message Boards that coincide with every title (excepting TV episodes) and name entry, along with forty-seven Main Boards. These boards allow registered users to share, discuss and debate information about the movie and/or people that worked on it. They were not originally part of the IMDb, but were added only after its purchase by Amazon.com, some time in the year 2000.
 + 
 +As the IMDb expires older posts from all message boards variably, it is difficult to precisely measure traffic according to individual board, but the ''Soapbox'' and the ''Sandbox'' are amongst the highest traffic boards on IMDb. The Soapbox is a general purpose discussion board, where users can go for "their more heated discussions".<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000044/threads/ | title=The Soapbox | publisher=IMDb | accessdate=2007-03-01}}</ref> The Sandbox is a general purpose, anything-goes board designated for test messages and off-topic posts.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000043/threads | title=The Sandbox | publisher=IMDb | accessdate=2007-03-01}}</ref>
 + 
 +Boards for various political persons (most notably President [[George W. Bush]]) have also been used for political discussion. On [[May 9]], [[2007]], a "Politics" message board was created.<ref>[http://imdb.com/board/bd0000082/threads/ Board: Politics]</ref>
 + 
 +===My movies===
 +Registered users also have access to "my movies," which is a database that can be created by any registered user.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/help/search?domain=helpdesk_faq&index=1&file=mymoviesguide|title=What Is IMDb's My Movies service?|publisher=IMDb |accessdate=2007-01-15}}</ref><br> The user can sort the content of that database according to several criteria, such as vote history. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/help/search?domain=helpdesk_faq&index=1&file=mymoviescreatelist|title=How do I create a personalized movie list with My Movies?|publisher=IMDb |accessdate=2007-01-15}}</ref>
 + 
 +===My List Widget===
 +Nov 2007<br>
 +With the "My List Widget" you can add custom lists of actors, movies and television titles to your own website.<br>
 +The widget displays images, cast lists, filmographies and other details pulled from the Internet Movie Database.<br>
 +[http://www.imdb.com/widgets/ the IMDb List Widget]
 + 
 +===The home page===
 +The home page has had some changes over the years. Mostly showing new features on the site and recent releases.
 +<gallery>
 +Image:imdb96.jpg|The front page in 1996
 +Image:imdb98a.jpg|The front page after a redesign in 1998
 +Image:imdb98b.jpg|Another redesign in 1998
 +Image:imdb00.jpg|The front page in 2000
 +Image:Imdb07.jpg|The front page in 2007
 +</gallery>
 + 
 +===Copyright issues===
 +All volunteers who contribute content to the database retain [[copyright]] to their contributions but grant full rights to copy, modify, and sublicense the content to IMDb.
 + 
 +===Foreign-language films===
 +The Internet Movie Database is written completely in English (although it does have sister websites in [http://finnish.imdb.com/ Finnish], [http://french.imdb.com/ French], [http://german.imdb.com/ German], [http://hungarian.imdb.com/ Hungarian], [http://italian.imdb.com/ Italian], [http://polish.imdb.com/ Polish], [http://portuguese.imdb.com/ Portuguese] (and [http://brazilian.imdb.com/ Brazilian Portuguese]) , [http://romanian.imdb.com/ Romanian] and [http://spanish.imdb.com/ Spanish]). Despite this, IMDb lists the titles of foreign-language films in their [http://www.imdb.com/help/show_leaf?akas original language]. This requires English-speaking users to search far down the front-page listing for a film, into the "Additional Details" section, just as non-English speakers must do for English titled films. For example, the Japanese anime film ''[[Spirited Away]]'' is [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245429/ listed] as ''Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi'', the original Japanese title, and English-speaking readers must look down below the cast list to find the English title. English-speaking users browsing IMDb's [http://www.imdb.com/chart/top Top 250 list] must click the listing for ''Wo hu cang long'' to discover that that film is ''[[Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon]]''.
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 +==See also==
 +* [[All Movie Guide]]
 +* [[Internet Adult Film Database]]
 +* [[Internet Broadway Database]]
 +* [[Internet Book List]]
 +* [[Internet Movie Cars Database]]
 +* [[Internet Theatre Database]]
 +* [[Fictional film]]
 +* [[Films considered the greatest ever]]
 +* [[Films considered the worst ever]]
 +* [[Rotten Tomatoes]]
 +* [[Metacritic]]
 +* [[Wikipedia:IMDb|MediaWiki templates to link to IMDb]]
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 +==References==
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 +==External links==
 +* [http://www.imdb.com/ Internet Movie Database] — official website
 +* [http://www.laweekly.com/general/deadline-hollywood/do-you-imdb/9084/ Do You IMDb?] — [[L.A. Weekly]]
 +* [http://www.imdb.com/chart/top Top 250 movies as voted by IMDb users]
 +* [http://www.imdb.com/chart/bottom Bottom 100 movies as voted by IMDb users]
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The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online database of information about movies, actors, television shows, production crew personnel, and video games. IMDb launched on October 17, 1990, and in 1998 was acquired by Amazon.com.

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Overview

The IMDb website consists of the largest accumulation of user-based data about films, television programs, direct-to-video products, and video games reaching back to each medium's respective beginning. In many cases, the information goes beyond simple title or press credits to include complete cast and crew credits, uncredited personnel, production and distribution companies, plot summaries, memorable quotes, awards, reviews, box office performance, filming locations, technical specs, promotional content, trivia, and links to official and other websites. Furthermore, the IMDb tracks titles in production, including major announced projects still in development. The database also houses filmographies for all persons, cast and crew, identified in listed titles. Filmographies include biographical details, awards listings, external links, and information about other professional work not covered by title entries in the database such as theatrical and commercial advertising appearances. The IMDb also offers ancillary material such as daily movie and TV news, weekly box office reports, TV listings, cinema showtimes, user polls and ratings, and special features about various movie events such as the Academy Awards. The website also has an active message board system. There are message boards for each database entry, found at the bottom of each respective page, as well as general discussion boards on various topics.

The IMDb is a free site, which requires registration to access its complete range of data and activities, although verification can sometimes require personal financial information such as credit card details. Any person with an e-mail account and a web browser that accepts cookies can set up an account with IMDb that allows them to submit information and engage in other site activities. As of Wednesday, Oct 10, 2007 imdb.com had 17,000,000 registered users.

Site visitors wishing only to view information without accessing interactive features can do so without registration. Database content is largely provided and updated by a cadre of volunteer contributors; although 20 members of the IMDb staff are dedicated to monitoring received data.<ref> Meet the staff

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In 2002, the IMDb spun off a private, subscription-funded site, IMDbPro, offering the entire content of the database plus additional information for business professionals, such as personnel contact details, titles in development, movie event calendars, and a greater range of industry news.

History

In rec.arts.movies

The database originated from two lists started as independent projects in early 1989 by participants in the Usenet newsgroup rec.arts.movies. In each case, a single maintainer recorded items emailed by newsgroup readers, and posted updated versions of his list from time to time. Google Groups coverage of rec.arts.movies is incomplete during the relevant time period, with a 6-month gap in late 1988 and early 1989 and a number of missing articles after that.

It began with a posting titled "Those Eyes", on the subject of actresses with beautiful eyes. Hank Driskill began to collect a list of sexy actresses and what movies they had appeared in, and as the size of the repeated posting grew far beyond a normal newsgroup article, it soon became known simply as "THE LIST".

The other project, started by Chuck Musciano, was briefly called the "Movie Ratings List" and soon became the "Movie Ratings Report". Musciano simply asked readers to rate movies on a scale of one to ten, and reported on the votes. He soon began posting "ballots" with lists of movies for people to rate, so his list also grew quickly.

In 1990, Col Needham collated the two lists and produced a "Combined LIST & Movie Ratings Report".<ref> MRRLIST: Combined LIST & Movie Ratings Report

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On the web

By 1993, the database had been expanded to include additional categories of filmmakers and other demographic material, as well as trivia, biographies, and plot summaries; the movie ratings had been properly integrated with the list data; and a centralized email interface for querying the database had been created. Later in the year, it moved onto to the World Wide Web (a network in its infancy back then) under the name of Cardiff Internet Movie Database. The database resided on the servers of the computer science department of Cardiff University in Wales. Rob Hartill was the original web interface author. In 1994, the email interface was revised to accept the submission of all information, meaning that people no longer had to email the specific list maintainer with their updates. However, the structure remained that information received on a single film was divided among multiple section managers, the sections being defined and determined by categories of film personnel and the individual filmographies contained therein. Its management also continued to be in the hands of a small contingent of underpaid or volunteer "section managers" who were receiving ever-growing quantities of information on films from around the world and across time from contributors of widely varying level of expertise and informational resources. Despite the annual claims of Needham, in a year-end report newsletter to the Top fifty contributors, that "fewer holes" must now remain for the coming year, the amount of information still missing from the database was vastly underestimated. Over the next few years, the database was run on a network of mirrors across the world with donated bandwidth.

As an independent company

In 1995, it became obvious to the principal site managers that the project had become too large to maintain merely through donations and in their spare time. The decision was made to become a commercial venture and in 1996, IMDb was incorporated in the United Kingdom, becoming the Internet Movie Database Ltd, with Col Needham the primary owner as well as identified figurehead. The remaining shareholders were the people maintaining the database. Revenue was generated through advertising, licensing and partnerships.

This state of affairs continued until 1998. The database was growing every day, and it was again reaching a critical point. Most revenues were being spent on equipment, and there was not enough money left over to pay full time salaries. The system was also suffering noticeable slowdowns both in accessing the site and in having new data posted. Offers were solicited and received from major businesses to purchase the database; however, the shareholders were unwilling to sell if it could not be guaranteed that the information would be accessible to the internet community for free.

As a subsidiary company

In 1998, Jeff Bezos, founder, owner and CEO of Amazon.com struck a deal with Col Needham and other principal shareholders, to buy IMDb outright and attach it to his corporate empire as a subsidiary, private company.<ref> News Release

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IMDb continues to expand its functionality. In 2002, it added a subscription service known as IMDbPro aimed at entertainment professionals. It provides a variety of services including production and box office details, as well as a company directory. Most information contained in the IMDb database proper continues to come from volunteer researchers. An additional incentive, since 2003, is that if they are identified as being one of "the top 100 contributors" in terms of amounts of hard data submitted, they receive complimentary free access to IMDbPro for the following calendar year; for 2006 this was increased to the top 150 contributors.<ref> IMDb announcement: Top 150 Contributors for 2006

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TV episodes

On 26 January 2006, the long-awaited "Full Episode Support" came online, allowing the database to support separate cast and crew listings for each episode of every TV series. This was described by Col Needham as "the largest change we've ever made to our data model," and increased the number of titles in the database from 485,000 to nearly 750,000.

At present, the database entries for TV series are in a state of flux, as listings are migrated from series titles to individual episodes. The maintainers anticipated "a couple of months for data to settle down and bugs to be ironed out", but inaccuracies were still present one year later.

Characters filmography

On 2 October 2007 the characters filmography feature was launched. The feature is similar to the existing title, name and company feature, except now users can see by whom a certain character was played, read memorable quotes and a biography about the character. All data in the characters filmography is submitted by regular users and is largely not verified by the IMDb staff, in comparison to most other data that is first verified and might be rejected by the staff. This is possibly because very little new data is sent in, but rather already existing data is being connected together.<ref>"

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Ancillary features

User ratings of films

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IMDb top 250 films, plotted by year and the sum of the ratings for movies from that year.

As one adjunct to data, the IMDb offers a rating scale which allows users to rate films by choosing one of ten categories in the range 1–10, with each user able to submit one rating. The points of reference given to users of these categories are the descriptions "1 (awful)" and "10 (excellent)"; and these are the only descriptions of categories. Due to the minimum category being scored one, the mid-point of the range of scores is 5.5, rather than 5.0 as might intuitively be expected given a maximum score of ten. This rating system has also recently been implemented for television programming on an episode-by-episode basis.

In adopting this method, IMDb is following its widespread usage; the method is the same as rating in the range of a half star to five stars. When used in reviews by a single reviewer, the method has some basic utility given a rating is usually given in the context of a qualitative appraisal of the film. The simplicity of this method makes it popular, but in terms of psychometric, statistical, and other criteria, the method suffers shortcomings (see online rating scales).

Filters and weights

IMDb indicates that submitted ratings are filtered and weighted in various ways in order to produce a weighted mean that is displayed for each film, series, and so on. It states that filters are used to avoid vote stuffing; the method is not described in detail to avoid attempts to circumvent it.

Ranking

The IMDb Top 250 is intended to be a listing of the top 'rated' 250 films, based on ratings by the registered users of the website using the methods described.<ref>"

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<math>W = R{v\over v+m} + C{m\over v+m}\ </math>

where:

<math>W\ </math> = Weighted Rating
<math>R\ </math> = average for the movie as a number from 0 to 10 (mean) = (Rating)
<math>v\ </math> = number of votes for the movie = (votes)
<math>m\ </math> = minimum votes required to be listed in the Top 250 (currently 1300)
<math>C\ </math> = the mean vote across the whole report (currently 6.7)

An extended listing of the Top 500 - following the same formula - is available to IMDbPro subscribers.

The IMDb also has a Bottom 100 feature which is assembled in the same way.<ref>"

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The top 250 list comprises a wide strata of films, including major releases, cult films, independent films, critically acclaimed films, silent films and foreign films.

Plot-related features and spoiler warnings

IMDb main pages for each film include one or more of the sections titled Plot outline, Plot synopsis, and Plot keywords, and separate pages for Plot summary and Plot synopsis. The Plot synopsis pages are accessed through links that notify the reader a spoiler may be included.<ref name="bournemain"> example of IMDb main film page, with plot outline, plot summary page link, and full plot synopsis link with spoiler warning

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The plot outline is a short summary of the premise with a general overiew, usually not including details that may be considered to be spoilers. The plot outline is presented on the main page for the film if short enough, and if it extends beyond a couple of lines includes a "more" link that opens to the Plot summary page for the film.

On the Plot summary page, IMDb includes the full text of the plot outline, along with the first few lines of the plot synopsis, followed by a link to a further more detailed page, with the link text written as "more (warning! contains spoilers)".<ref name="bournesummary"> Plot summary page example with spoiler warning

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The plot synopsis is a more complete summary of the plot that can be edited by readers of IMDb, often including twists and turns that some readers may consider to be spoilers and may not want to know about if they have not yet seen the film.<ref name="synposishelp"> synopsis user editing instructions

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The IMDb User's Guide advises user contributors to avoid revealing spoilers outside of the synopsis section where they are covered by the spoiler warning in the page headline. IMDb also provides a spoiler warning template for use when spoilers occur in an unexpected location, for example, according to their help page, when a synopsis includes a spoiler for a different movie.<ref name="synposishelp"/> In the IMDb Submission Guide for the "Trivia and Goofs" page section and for their message boards, the guide states that spoilers should be avoided in general in those sections, but that if a spoiler is included, it must be preceded by an announcement, such as using the word "SPOILER:" or their provided spoiler template. <ref name="triviahelp"> Handy Hints - Trivia and Goofs section

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Plot keywords are keywords that contributors to the IMDb submit. These are keywords regarding objects and occurrences in each film on the IMDb.<ref> Submission Guide: Keywords

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Message boards

One of the most used features of the Internet Movie Database is the Message Boards that coincide with every title (excepting TV episodes) and name entry, along with forty-seven Main Boards. These boards allow registered users to share, discuss and debate information about the movie and/or people that worked on it. They were not originally part of the IMDb, but were added only after its purchase by Amazon.com, some time in the year 2000.

As the IMDb expires older posts from all message boards variably, it is difficult to precisely measure traffic according to individual board, but the Soapbox and the Sandbox are amongst the highest traffic boards on IMDb. The Soapbox is a general purpose discussion board, where users can go for "their more heated discussions".<ref>"

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Boards for various political persons (most notably President George W. Bush) have also been used for political discussion. On May 9, 2007, a "Politics" message board was created.<ref>Board: Politics</ref>

My movies

Registered users also have access to "my movies," which is a database that can be created by any registered user.<ref> What Is IMDb's My Movies service?

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The user can sort the content of that database according to several criteria, such as vote history. <ref> How do I create a personalized movie list with My Movies?

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My List Widget

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With the "My List Widget" you can add custom lists of actors, movies and television titles to your own website.
The widget displays images, cast lists, filmographies and other details pulled from the Internet Movie Database.
the IMDb List Widget

The home page

The home page has had some changes over the years. Mostly showing new features on the site and recent releases.

Copyright issues

All volunteers who contribute content to the database retain copyright to their contributions but grant full rights to copy, modify, and sublicense the content to IMDb.

Foreign-language films

The Internet Movie Database is written completely in English (although it does have sister websites in Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese (and Brazilian Portuguese) , Romanian and Spanish). Despite this, IMDb lists the titles of foreign-language films in their original language. This requires English-speaking users to search far down the front-page listing for a film, into the "Additional Details" section, just as non-English speakers must do for English titled films. For example, the Japanese anime film Spirited Away is listed as Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi, the original Japanese title, and English-speaking readers must look down below the cast list to find the English title. English-speaking users browsing IMDb's Top 250 list must click the listing for Wo hu cang long to discover that that film is Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.


See also

References

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External links

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