Tony_ML
Asked 4 years ago
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Help keep MovieLens up to date!
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[archived]
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Hi everyone,
Just a quick note -- over the next few weeks, we'll be trying out a couple different ways of giving the users more control over the MovieLens movie database. You'll be able to help keep MovieLens up to date and decide what titles should be listed.
Some of you will see announcements about this on the front page. If you do, please feel free to contribute!
We're still working out some kinks, so let us know if you see anything that seems wrong.
-Tony
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memasa
Answered 4 years ago
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Even though it's nice to have the freedom to submit new movies, I am a bit worried about the current trend I'm seeing here. Personally I don't mind that many movies in the database, new and old, are not available here in Finland where I live, as long as they are available for a large number other ML users. The problem of not having many of my top picks available here in my home country is nothing new, this was the case even before the recently introduced user-based movie addition system.
What really worries me is people have started submitting movies only available in their country of origin (big or small), Finland for example. Even though I can get a hold of the Finnish movies in the database, it still bothers me the majority of users can not.
Don't get me wrong, this problem doesn't just concern some of the Finnish movies, but many other small releases as well, movies which I will probably never see because they simply are nowhere to be found. Local/limited releases are not beneficial for the database as a whole because they will never get enough ratings from the total user base to give us predictions that would be reliable/useful enough in general.
Should ML have a standard of reliability is another question which might need to be answered yet again. The simple answer is, every recommender engine needs to be able produce useful information for their users. In this new situation we users have been put in, I think WE, above all, have to come up with a new set of rules for inclusion to ensure good recommendations in future.
I am in favor of adding international releases (World Cinema), even those not yet released in the U.S, for as long as the list of countries where these movies are released is comprehensive enough. Ask yourselves what is comprehensive before hitting the submit button. Is there even a potential this particular addition I want to include will get more than 10 ratings in the near future? Or is this submission perhaps somehow otherwise signfiicant (e.g. historically) despite the relatively small number of users who will presumably rate it?
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memasa
Answered 4 years ago
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Just added the movie...
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memasa
Answered 4 years ago
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I'm not able to submit movies at the moment, so it'd be great if someone added Wallace and Gromit in 'A Matter of Loaf and Death' (2008). Yes, it's a TV movie and short, but also a worthy addition.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1118511/
Edit: Added to Movielens 2008-12-09
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Linko
Answered 4 years ago
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We're experimenting with different ways of letting users add movies, and the feature isn't always turned on for everyone. That's the most likely explanation if you don't see the links on the home page.
I can understand not being able to submit but I do think it's strange that when the option to submit is closed then the option to vote is closed also. I was wondering if this was intentional or a sort of glitch?
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Tony_ML
Answered 4 years ago
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I saw the option to vote for movies other have submitted for a while. Now I don't get that on my home page.
Additionally, the page is acting flaky in firefox 2.0.0.17. It appears to render okay on firefox 3 or IE. Some of the links aren't working on the page, like the search button in the left navigation pane.
I've tried manually logging out and logging back in but that didn't help. Eventually I had to clear out my cookie for movielens. Is anyone else seeing this?
Hmm. We'll look into the Firefox 2.x problems, although that probably doesn't have anything to do with whether you have the movie-adding options available to you.
We're experimenting with different ways of letting users add movies, and the feature isn't always turned on for everyone. That's the most likely explanation if you don't see the links on the home page.
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PolarisDiB
Answered 4 years ago
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Yeah, I'm ants'ing for submitting some titles I've seen recently.
--DiB
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Ellipsis
Answered 4 years ago
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Is this why "Suggest a title" is now missing from all pages? I can't find it anywhere. :-(
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dandoughty
Answered 4 years ago
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I saw the option to vote for movies other have submitted for a while. Now I don't get that on my home page.
Additionally, the page is acting flaky in firefox 2.0.0.17. It appears to render okay on firefox 3 or IE. Some of the links aren't working on the page, like the search button in the left navigation pane.
I've tried manually logging out and logging back in but that didn't help. Eventually I had to clear out my cookie for movielens. Is anyone else seeing this?
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Tony_ML
Answered 4 years ago
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Hey admins, I see the new page with the submissions to vote for but after I check the vote boxes for the movies I things are appropriate it isn't obvious what to do next, is there some submit button? to submit my votes?
steprous:
Just like rating movies and maintaining your wishlist, there is no need to press a submit button to save your votes. Sorry if that was unclear or confusing!
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