A look at IMDb's top 300 contributors, including one who wrote 35K+ plot summaries, and the history of the Amazon-owned crowdsourced website predating Wikipedia
Stephen Lurie / Wired : Tweets: @caitlin__kelly , @grahamdavida , @luriethereal , @michellelegro , and @michellelegro Tweets: Caitlin Kelly / @caitlin__kelly : Scouring Stockholm libraries for forgotten directors. Hauling movie memorabilia across Texas. Film buffs have gone to GREAT lengths to build out IMDb. @luriethereal talked to some of these supercontributors, and it's a fascinating + very charming story! https://www.wired.com/... David A. Graham / @grahamdavida : Delightful @luriethereal profile of the weird world of IMDB supercontributors https://www.wired.com/... Stephen Lurie / @luriethereal : About a year ago I accidentally clicked a link on IMDb that showed me that one user had written *thousands* of movie plot summaries on the site. Then I learned he wasn't alone. Now here's my report @WIRED on the superusers behind IMDb: https://www.wired.com/... Michelle Legro / @michellelegro : IMDB is the grande dame of the early internet. Older than Wikipedia, older than Google, the site has been cataloging the minutiae of film for more than two decades. And we are so so grateful for it. https://www.wired.com/... Michelle Legro / @michellelegro : What's your favorite part of IMDB? Mine's the absolutely unhinged trivia section. https://www.wired.com/...