User talk:Sky2042/Archive 1: Difference between revisions

Hey Sky. I wanted to give you a heads up on a new project that we, the Wikia Gaming Team, are starting. I'm going to the top gaming wikis and adding relevant videos (from YouTube) to a few of the most popular/visited articles. We'll be tracking their usage to find out if it could be an extra enhancement that people will use (ie. a new widget). I noticed that SmashWiki has a [[:Category:Videos|Videos category]], but the videos on the articles are (externally) linked to. What I wanted to ask is if it would be ok to change the videos from external links to embedded, so that we can track the usage. Wikia has a custom code for embedding YouTube videos - <nowiki><youtube>VideoID</youtube></nowiki> - and with the videos being embedded, people won't have to leave the wiki to watch them. I'll be glad to take care of this after I hear back from you. If you have any questions, ask away. [[User:JoePlay|JoePlay]] ([[User_talk:JoePlay|talk]]) 22:01, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

:I understand your concern about the videos. Obviously not everyone will welcome them. This is just something we're testing right now at the top 25 gaming wikis, so if you guys prefer not to participate in the test, that's no problem. I'll take your suggestion and contact the other 2 currently active admins about it and invite them to add to your feedback on my talk page. By the way, the dimensions of the embedded videos can be scaled down with the youtube code. So if someone wanted to display the video at a smaller size (to take up less page space), he could edit the width and height in the youtube code. Example: <pre><nowiki><youtube width="200" height="166">hPTFpBWZbIA</youtube></nowiki></pre>