It used to be when you entered something, like trivia, that was eligible for "track contribution" beta program, that the tracking was only for items that were eligible. It now has all items within the contribution whether they would be individually eligible or not. Check it out.
Pretty cool to see what has been processed and what is still processing. This is a great improvement IMDb. I only hope this roles out soon for all contributions.
Pretty cool to see what has been processed and what is still processing. This is a great improvement IMDb. I only hope this roles out soon for all contributions.
Adrian, Champion
Posted 1 year ago
The display of the main box, containing the Approved/Pending/Declined status, is too wide for portrait mode on my tablet. It requires scrolling left and right to see the details. Pinch/Zoom doesn't work.
Megan, Staff Member
Hi Ron,
Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I've flagged this as an issue with the team.
Cheers,
Megan
Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I've flagged this as an issue with the team.
Cheers,
Megan
bderoes, Champion
bderoes, Champion
Is there some way to see only the contributions that are still Pending? Rejected? Search for a specific contribution number (other than the url hack reported earlier)?
if you mean on this page, you can use your browser's search function to look for the words "Pending" or "Declined", which should let you loop through any contributions that need attention.
Not sure how reliable this is, but when I tested it just now, searching this way seemed to trigger the loading of more at the end of the page, so it might be able to get you back through the oldest contributions too.
Not sure how reliable this is, but when I tested it just now, searching this way seemed to trigger the loading of more at the end of the page, so it might be able to get you back through the oldest contributions too.
bderoes, Champion
I did the browser search after posting my question, but it took a LOT of time and effort, and when I made a mistake and opened the View Details link without specifying I wanted it in a new tab, I completely lost my place in the search. And in Chrome, it did NOT trigger the loading of more at the end of the page unless I scrolled to the end of the page.
Which leads me to this feedback: triggering any link on this page should automatically open in a new tab.
Which leads me to this feedback: triggering any link on this page should automatically open in a new tab.
Adrian, Champion
I really don't know what you are doing that takes lots of time and effort to find your pending and declined items unless you are trying to find something from months or years ago. I was able to fairly easily scroll back and take a look at contributions from last year. The infinite scroll is much better than clicking a link for the next 50 contributions (especially if you are like me and occasionally fix keywords which can end up with a lot of single item contributions.)
I search daily for what is pending or declined and it really takes almost no effort. I will agree with you that clicking a link on this page should open a new page like the previous contributions page did.
I search daily for what is pending or declined and it really takes almost no effort. I will agree with you that clicking a link on this page should open a new page like the previous contributions page did.
bderoes, Champion
Adrian -
In Chrome on Windows 10, when the page first loads, I find only 1 occurrence of "decl". I have to scroll down to load more of the page in order to see the next one, which is from only 2 months ago, 5Mar. It would be better if a filter were provided to look at only the contributions where something was declined. And/or this page needs a more compact view, so that more contributions load at once. (And yes, I was trying to look at all of them today, once I realized I finally could see a reason for each. I bookmarked several for follow-up.)
Just tried this page on my phone, and Chrome for Android apparently loads a lot more in the first shot; it found 17 "decl", back to 2018. But a phone is not the best way to look at this stuff, especially not when I have the display pumped up to the largest settings. It only gets worse when I rotate to landscape.
In Chrome on Windows 10, when the page first loads, I find only 1 occurrence of "decl". I have to scroll down to load more of the page in order to see the next one, which is from only 2 months ago, 5Mar. It would be better if a filter were provided to look at only the contributions where something was declined. And/or this page needs a more compact view, so that more contributions load at once. (And yes, I was trying to look at all of them today, once I realized I finally could see a reason for each. I bookmarked several for follow-up.)
Just tried this page on my phone, and Chrome for Android apparently loads a lot more in the first shot; it found 17 "decl", back to 2018. But a phone is not the best way to look at this stuff, especially not when I have the display pumped up to the largest settings. It only gets worse when I rotate to landscape.
Adrian, Champion
I find navigating this screen easier than the previous version. The infinite scroll loads fast and on Windows 10 with Chrome, you just have to continually hit the end button to get it to load more data. Filters would be nice but I'm guessing as long as this is "beta" it is not a priority. The previous page never gave us a good way to search for a contribution.
My main complain for the page is that it lists TV shows just by the episode title. I usually want to search by the series title.
My main complain for the page is that it lists TV shows just by the episode title. I usually want to search by the series title.
For episodes. I've found that sometimes the series title is shown alongside the episode title and sometimes it's not. I've yet to figure out what causes the difference (too lazy to check now, but I vaguely remember the issue being raised in this thread before?)
As for the infinite scrolling, that invention would be my first target if I ever get my hands on a time machine. Call me old-fashioned, but I've yet to see any example of infinite scrolling anywhere on the web that I actually like. Give me good old paged navigation every time.
As for the infinite scrolling, that invention would be my first target if I ever get my hands on a time machine. Call me old-fashioned, but I've yet to see any example of infinite scrolling anywhere on the web that I actually like. Give me good old paged navigation every time.
bderoes, Champion
@Adrian -
You said: "The previous page never gave us a good way to search for a contribution."
The page that is still linked to the contribution confirmation email has this for searching:
But it only shows the contribution itself, not the status.
You said: "The previous page never gave us a good way to search for a contribution."
The page that is still linked to the contribution confirmation email has this for searching:
But it only shows the contribution itself, not the status.
bderoes, Champion
@Adrian & Phil,
A lot of my contributions this week are to images for episodes, and it seems that the series is displaying on each contrib. (Then again, some of the movies among them might be episodes that I don't recognize as such.) Maybe they include the series consistently with some types of contribs?
A lot of my contributions this week are to images for episodes, and it seems that the series is displaying on each contrib. (Then again, some of the movies among them might be episodes that I don't recognize as such.) Maybe they include the series consistently with some types of contribs?
Megan, Staff Member
This is great feedback - thanks everyone for your suggestions and candor. I'll make sure to pass it along to the team.
Cheers,
Megan
Cheers,
Megan
You see pending credits at the top (also approved) after clicking the reference number, but perhaps you didn’t mean that?
bderoes, Champion
Eboy - You are correct that I did not mean pending/declined credits within a contribution. I meant I wanted to see all my contributions that had a declined item on them. As I describe above, using browser search for that is tedious and time-consuming. And I don't like the one fluid page aspect of this display. How would anyone contending for the Top Contributor rank possibly use this, unless they submit lots and lots of items on a single contribution.
I DO like being able to see reasons for declined contribs, although many make no sense, especially those from several years ago.
I DO like being able to see reasons for declined contribs, although many make no sense, especially those from several years ago.
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I agree. The never ending page feature sucks. It needs to be page by page. 100 per page. A date range search feature, would be nice also.
bderoes, Champion
The new Contribution History (Beta)
https://contribute.imdb.com/contributions/history
seems to be listing all contributions, including Images. I like that a lot.
But I submitted something recently that is NOT showing on that page: a Title Correction.
When I use the url to see the individual contrib's details, I get this:
The change went through, so the contrib itself is not at issue.
But if this page is supposed to list all contribs, I wanted to report that it does not.
https://contribute.imdb.com/contributions/history
seems to be listing all contributions, including Images. I like that a lot.
But I submitted something recently that is NOT showing on that page: a Title Correction.
When I use the url to see the individual contrib's details, I get this:
The change went through, so the contrib itself is not at issue.
But if this page is supposed to list all contribs, I wanted to report that it does not.
Peter, Champion
It says at the top of the page that some types are not included.
Megan, Staff Member
Peter is correct - title corrections are not yet included on this new history page. We realize the need to see information about all contributed information and are working to include all contributions on this page.
Thank you for your patience and continued feedback on this Beta experience.
Cheers,
Megan
Thank you for your patience and continued feedback on this Beta experience.
Cheers,
Megan
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Suggestion for new contribution history page.
I've got a few suggestions for the beta contribution history page.
1) enable the user to be able to archive items on the list (this is similar to Walgreens does it's prescription history)
2) enable the user to have the ability to select what type of contributions that are being viewed. eg image, trivia, goofs, cast, etc
3) enable the ability to limit the list to those that have been declined, approved, pending
4) i do like the ability to be able to see everything but having done a cleanup job on a title I've not got several hundred recent entries that I'm not wanting to scroll past. being able to archive would resolve that, but also having the ability to select how many items are being viewed would help which would then divide it up into pages.
overall love the new page.
I've got a few suggestions for the beta contribution history page.
1) enable the user to be able to archive items on the list (this is similar to Walgreens does it's prescription history)
2) enable the user to have the ability to select what type of contributions that are being viewed. eg image, trivia, goofs, cast, etc
3) enable the ability to limit the list to those that have been declined, approved, pending
4) i do like the ability to be able to see everything but having done a cleanup job on a title I've not got several hundred recent entries that I'm not wanting to scroll past. being able to archive would resolve that, but also having the ability to select how many items are being viewed would help which would then divide it up into pages.
overall love the new page.
Megan, Staff Member
Thank you for the suggestions! I'll pass those along to the team.
Cheers,
Megan
Cheers,
Megan
Adrian, Champion
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled The Beta Contribution page now lists the series.
I'm glad to see that the Beta Contribution page has been updated to show the series title along with the episode title. This was one of my first suggestions to improve this page.
However, there is still a slight bug in displaying the series. See this picture:
I'm glad to see that the Beta Contribution page has been updated to show the series title along with the episode title. This was one of my first suggestions to improve this page.
However, there is still a slight bug in displaying the series. See this picture:
Adrian, Champion
And now the series title is gone again!
Hopefully, it will be back soon.
As far as I can tell, IMDb staff haven't done any work on the beta page for a long time now. Hopefully they'll return to it at some point, because it really is the most useful update to the site for years (from a contributor perspective at least).
Series titles have been appearing occasionally, but inconsistently since the page was very new, and I see that it was back in January that I reported the display bug with certain characters in the series titles.
Series titles have been appearing occasionally, but inconsistently since the page was very new, and I see that it was back in January that I reported the display bug with certain characters in the series titles.
At the very least, a response from a staffer would be nice...
Megan, Staff Member
Hi Adrian,
Thank you for reporting this issue. We're aware of problems with series titles appearing inconsistently and certain characters displaying incorrectly and having this specific example will be useful for the team to use when investigating.
I'll update this page as we make progress on these and the other issues that have been brought to our attention.
Cheers,
Megan
Thank you for reporting this issue. We're aware of problems with series titles appearing inconsistently and certain characters displaying incorrectly and having this specific example will be useful for the team to use when investigating.
I'll update this page as we make progress on these and the other issues that have been brought to our attention.
Cheers,
Megan
I think I've finally figured out the mystery of the inconsistent series titles (and just in time, if it's about to be fixed... staff may already know this, but I'm a little bit proud to have puzzled it out on my own!)
Let's see if I can explain this clearly...
Take a TV series you've never made contributions for before, and edit an episode. The submission will show up on the Beta Contributions History page with the episode title only; no series title and no hint that it is actually an episode.
Now make a submission at series-level and reload the Beta page. This time, the submission for the episode will show the series title (with some characters/html-entities in the series title double-escaped and looking bad - this bug seems to be clearly related, you'll note from my old example that the series title displays properly on the series-level contribution).
Here's the curious part (and also the part I find tricky to explain clearly)... the series title will only show if a series-level contribution is also loaded in the same group as the episode submission. If the series-level contribution was already visible when you hit the bottom of the page and the episode-level contribution does not appear until that annoying infinite-scroll loads more, then the episode submission will not show the series title. Is that clear, or have I just confused everyone completely?
If I've got it right, it seems an odd way of doing it to me: omitting the series title from the data for the episode contribution itself and just hoping to pick it up from a nearby contribution which may or may not appear. But I have no idea how the back-end works so maybe this is actually the best way?
Let's see if I can explain this clearly...
Take a TV series you've never made contributions for before, and edit an episode. The submission will show up on the Beta Contributions History page with the episode title only; no series title and no hint that it is actually an episode.
Now make a submission at series-level and reload the Beta page. This time, the submission for the episode will show the series title (with some characters/html-entities in the series title double-escaped and looking bad - this bug seems to be clearly related, you'll note from my old example that the series title displays properly on the series-level contribution).
Here's the curious part (and also the part I find tricky to explain clearly)... the series title will only show if a series-level contribution is also loaded in the same group as the episode submission. If the series-level contribution was already visible when you hit the bottom of the page and the episode-level contribution does not appear until that annoying infinite-scroll loads more, then the episode submission will not show the series title. Is that clear, or have I just confused everyone completely?
If I've got it right, it seems an odd way of doing it to me: omitting the series title from the data for the episode contribution itself and just hoping to pick it up from a nearby contribution which may or may not appear. But I have no idea how the back-end works so maybe this is actually the best way?
Adrian, Champion
It looks like it is time for an update to the warning at the top of the page.
bderoes, Champion
I recently (16Sep) requested a title change as part of a contribution, and it was NOT listed among the items.
Adrian, Champion
I don't know that any other contributions listed (i.e. title changes and name changes and movie connections) have been affected but cast completion is new (something I've done for years and this is the first time I noticed it on the tracking page.)
Adrian, Champion
It appears that this function isn't really working correctly. First, the estimated processing date is always "Calculating". Second, all of mine still seem to be "processing" though they have appear to have completed. Take example, last night's Fear the Walking Dead episode.
Megan, Staff Member
Hi Adrian,
Well spotted! We are working on launching tracking for cast and crew completion.
Thank you for reporting this issue with the status being incorrect. I've told the team, and they're looking into it now. Sorry for any confusion this may have caused.
Cheers,
Megan
Well spotted! We are working on launching tracking for cast and crew completion.
Thank you for reporting this issue with the status being incorrect. I've told the team, and they're looking into it now. Sorry for any confusion this may have caused.
Cheers,
Megan
We are working on launching tracking for cast and crew completion.I'm happy to hear that!
Adrian, Champion
It looks like the cast complete is now working correctly, at least for new submissions (all my previous submissions are still "pending")
Megan, Staff Member
Hi Adrian,
Yes, you should see proper status updates for all new cast/crew completeness items you submit.
Please let us know if you experience any other problems with these contributions, and thanks again for bringing this issue to our attention.
Cheers,
Megan
Yes, you should see proper status updates for all new cast/crew completeness items you submit.
Please let us know if you experience any other problems with these contributions, and thanks again for bringing this issue to our attention.
Cheers,
Megan
Adrian, Champion
Movie connections now appear in the tracking information!
Well, that is good news. Thanks for sharing!
Megan, Staff Member
Hi everyone,
This new history experience now displays tracking information for title corrections and merges.
Thank you for your support as we continue to iterate on this feature.
Cheers,
Megan
This new history experience now displays tracking information for title corrections and merges.
Thank you for your support as we continue to iterate on this feature.
Cheers,
Megan
Thanks for the update!
Adrian, Champion
This seems to have a bug. I corrected a television episode title and in the update history, instead of appearing under "Title Corrections" it appears under "Alternate Titles". No, it isn't an alternate title. The originally entered title was incorrect.
Thanks for the added feature. All Title Correction submissions for me continue to show "pending" on my History page, days after the changes have been accepted and live on the main site.
I see that name merges and corrections are now being tracked on the beta page... although merges are under the slightly odd heading "Name Preferred Const Addition". I know what it means because I know what I just submitted, but perhaps it could be rephrased for display?
I'm running out of reasons to ever check the old history page again!
I'm running out of reasons to ever check the old history page again!
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Thanks for this update Phil!
The old history page shows saved contributions and has links to reload them as well as having links to reload old submissions. It also shows how many items were submitted in each section in the order in which they appear in the contribution page. I find that useful when submitting credits for episodes of a series where I have submitted similar credits for other episodes.
The heading for name merges does need improvement. It should reflect how contributors see the process not how staff may refer to the mechanism that implements it.
The heading for name merges does need improvement. It should reflect how contributors see the process not how staff may refer to the mechanism that implements it.
Thanks Owen. I had a funny feeling I was forgetting something - not sure how I managed to overlook saved submissions when I've been using them this week. Hopefully that functionality can be added to the beta page at some point.
I'm also hoping that the department order on the beta page is considered a bug and will be corrected - mirroring the form order would be far more useful than the current jumble.
And, of course, there are still some other issues raised here that need to be addressed too, but it's definitely getting there. Does anyone know if the plan is for the old history page to eventually be removed completely, or will the old and new co-exist even when the beta page is 'finished'?
I'm also hoping that the department order on the beta page is considered a bug and will be corrected - mirroring the form order would be far more useful than the current jumble.
And, of course, there are still some other issues raised here that need to be addressed too, but it's definitely getting there. Does anyone know if the plan is for the old history page to eventually be removed completely, or will the old and new co-exist even when the beta page is 'finished'?
Another thing I just noticed about the new history page. The endless scrolling does not always end up at the same place. Just now it went back as far as my contribution 141022-151349-542000 but only a few minutes earlier it was not even going back as far as the beginning of this year.
It looks as if it will not try to fetch more data again if it tries but does not get any more. After reloading the page it may go back further.
This is one reason why I am not a great fan of the endless scroll approach to handling large volumes of data. The old history tells you how many items there are and you can go through page by page - also not ideal but at least you know how much there is and how many times you have to select 'next'.
It looks as if it will not try to fetch more data again if it tries but does not get any more. After reloading the page it may go back further.
This is one reason why I am not a great fan of the endless scroll approach to handling large volumes of data. The old history tells you how many items there are and you can go through page by page - also not ideal but at least you know how much there is and how many times you have to select 'next'.
Elise, Employee
Hi everyone,
We've added tracking information for name splits yesterday. Any name splits should now appear in the new history page as the list of credits that was moved from one person to another.
Thank you for your support and your feedback.
Cheers,
Elise
We've added tracking information for name splits yesterday. Any name splits should now appear in the new history page as the list of credits that was moved from one person to another.
Thank you for your support and your feedback.
Cheers,
Elise
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