Adding cool media to your wiki just got easier. There is a new Add Video icon on your toolbar right next to the Add Picture icon that allows you to easily embed videos from around the web onto any wiki page.

Adding videos and images makes pages more dynamic and gives readers a way to dive even deeper into a topic, without ever leaving your wiki. Videos, such as how-tos, game walkthroughs, TV episode clips, and movie trailers, are the perfect complement to the information and guides already on your wiki. Try it out by adding an image or video to your user page now and let us know what you think!

If you have any questions, you can find more information on the help page.

Thanks,
Wikia Community Team

Contents 1 Feedback 1.1 Missing Skins 1.2 Interface Localization 1.3 Editing Tips 2 New sites 3 Button position 4 Great, questions... 5 Love it! 6 Great Job 7 Great 8 Monobook 9 Wookieepedia needs this turned off 10 Can't get Metacafe.com video default size when embedded 11 Need layout option for no text wrap around a video 12 Copyright tags 13 Awesome! 14 O.K. 15 How to add caption and fix the placement at the same time 16 Concerning new video tool... 17 a problem 18 Thank You 19 Wikitubia spotlight 20 Report 21 Thank You Wikia! 22 This is so COOL! 23 Videos still playing after deletion 24 Not showing in WhatLinksHere 25 Brilliant Idea 26 How to change Category?? 27 Video Bugs: can't use pre or nowiki code to display video code, doesn't support wiki codes in caption 28 Namespace translation 29 New Feature! 30 Does not work for me 31 Not embedding properly 32 Another Bug 33 Icon Not Present 34 Improve Load Times? 35 [Still another] bug? 36 Nice 37 "special page" bug 38 Daily Motion 39 Videos not working? 40 Really? No one's had any trouble with this yet? 41 Float problem solved

Please add feedback below, thanks!

• Please note the extension is currently undergoing further development, so if something is missing, we may already be planning on adding it :)
• If you would like this turned off at your wiki, please put in a request via Special:Contact

Feedback

It's a ridiculously awesome tool. How difficult will it be to add different video sites in the future? Not that any of those are limiting, just wondering. And what happens to a video if it's taken off it's main site? How does it show up on the wiki? HUGE Thanks for this! :)

— Nathan (Peteparker) (Earth-1218) (talk • contribs • email) 18:28, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

I've seen that happen on YouTube before on other sites, and it just comes up with a "this video is unavailable" message when you press play. I haven't used it yet, but nice feature! --YOWUZA TALK 2 ME! 18:38, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

I don't think we have anything specific to deal with removed videos at the moment, but you will be able to upload/overwrite new versions of videos in the next version. Kirkburn  talk  contr    19:17, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

I didn't mean on Wikia, on othe sites I've seen that. --YOWUZA TALK 2 ME! 19:31, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, I think it just says "unavailable" in the embed ... but I meant if that happens to a video that's embedded on your wiki you will soon be able to update the video page to use a different video (just like updating images). Kirkburn  talk  contr    20:08, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

• Works great for me, I never used to use video in articles until now. Hunterj | My talk 18:36, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Great idea. Loved the new feture and thanks. - Luvingazula - Talk 18:47, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Great. That's what I was waiting for. thanks --byggxx 19:13, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

I just tested it on the Bandipedia snadbox and it seems to work: http://crashbandicoot.wikia.com/wiki/Bandipedia:Sandbox

Pretty good: makes it much easier to upload videos.--Pig house ^{Talk | UnRuneScape Wiki} 19:49, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

I don't see the buttons anywhere. AJUK 21:03, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Have you got the Help:Edit toolbar disabled? Kirkburn  talk  contr    22:37, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

I take it this won't be optional. If there's a choice, I'd rather disable it. We have a neutrality policy on the wiki I help run, and this raises concerns about certain users filling pages with videos that are motivated by favouritism (i.e. -- "favourite couples"). Think I might need to expand the policy now. -- James26 14:52, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

The <youtube> extension allowed the same thing - but no problem with wikis asking for it to be disabled: just put in a request via Special:Contact. Kirkburn  talk  contr    16:36, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

I really like the new feature, Thanks! 30px - Zukofan - ^{don't be shy, just ask me something} 06:05, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

It disappeared for some reason when I click on edit. --vegeance 22:46, 18 February 2009 (UTC) File:Featurenonexistent.png

This is being discuss elsewhere; please see Forum:Video embed tool disappeared from editor. --Michaeldsuarez ^{(Talk) (Deeds)} 11:38, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Missing Skins

Would it be too much trouble for them to add this to the Monobook skin's ToolBar too? I'm sure the Monaco skins are well designed and all but I found them too obstructing and distracting compared to the simplicity of Mono. Thank You! --ilr(04,Feb.'09)

I second that. --Michaeldsuarez ^{(Talk) (Deeds)} 01:15, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Monobook plz! RT 08:06, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Monaco is the main focus of our support, but it may be possible to add it to Monobook too. Will investigate, but no promises though. Kirkburn  talk  contr    16:23, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

We have a basic special page upcoming that should alleviate having to switch skins all the time to add new videos. We can't add the popup stuff as the relevant code isn't on the Monobook skin, unfortunately. Kirkburn  talk  contr    17:52, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

w00t, Thx! ...whatever gets us Close --ilr

Interface Localization

It seems that there are no MediaWiki namespace pages to translate interface messages. Are there any way to do it?--Tommy6_helper（Talk/FFXI/Anipedia+M+N/Scratchpad）07:41, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Hey Tommy6. They're called MediaWiki:Vet-* on messaging. If you need any help, just contact me (i.e. per Skype avatar-1). --Avatar 08:00, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Editing Tips

plz add the wiki tag on Editing Tips. my net kinda slow and can't open the toolbar T_T Landavia

New sites

Any idea when www.archive.org will be added? --Kirk 18:57, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

It's on our list, but no ETA atm. (Nice name btw ;) Kirkburn  talk  contr    19:17, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

• Is cellfish.com one of the video sites on the list to be supported? -- ^C¯ _Santa_ ¯^T 18:12, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Button position

Interesting Idea, Not sure if its much use to me yet. But as video links are getting more common on other sites suitable material could probably be embedded in the wikis pages in some instances.

But can the Add Image button be moved back to be the last button, in place of the video one on the edit bar ? As I'm currently adding some of the 1000 of photos I've got to the Tractor wiki, It was a lot easier with the image button as last one. (the video buttons appeared and disappeared several time today ? Can the upload speed in loader be speeded up ? (BTW the new "improved" Image is far better than it was with the new options for copy right) Can the caption edit window/strip be made a bit longer ? - BulldozerD11 19:48, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

We found a bug earlier today which meant it was briefly removed. The icon should now be a permanent addition though.

OK - I thought it had come and gone a few times

The icon position is unlikely to change though, as images are a "higher" priority feature. It is fairly likely new buttons will be added in future, so we don't really want to keep shuffling stuff around.

If Images are highest priority they should be the right most button (with video to the left) ??

Glad you like the improved image uploader, we're pretty proud of it too!

Regarding upload speeds in general, it possible - but it would be part of wider efficiency improvements, which is a constant battle. Over time it should improve.

Finally, the caption width - fair point, I shall put in a request.

Thanks

Thanks! Kirkburn  talk  contr    20:05, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for prompt reply Kirkburn - BulldozerD11 01:28, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Great, questions...

Does this mean the <youtube> tags will stop being supported? Should all YouTube tags be replaced with these new ones?

Also it would be cool if while one was sliding the width bar, it actually resized the video in real time. -- LordTBT ^Talk! 19:50, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

This is intended to eventually replace the youtube extension, but it's not going anywhere for quite a while given how much it is used. Hopefully we can get everybody using this new tool instead :)

Regarding resizing the video in real-time, this did come up during development. Currently it's not done to keep it simple, but it's possible it could be added at a later point. Kirkburn  talk  contr    20:01, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Love it!

The ability to add the myriad highly useful scientific videos from around the web to a science wiki is one of the greatest additions to these wikis. Worked first time. Thanks. See it here caseyd 00:09, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Great Job

Keep up the good work! --Jack Spiral1 00:36, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Great

I like it! – except could you make the icon button blue not green so it matches the other buttons. Thanks! Lombax Jerk | My talk 01:07, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Monobook

Can you make a special page for this? I keep having to switch to Monaco in order to upload videos. Other than that, great job; I've always wanted to format videos in the same ways as you would images. --Michaeldsuarez ^{(Talk) (Deeds)} 01:13, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

2^nd that. Or just add it into the Monobook bar. — 01:31, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

See #Missing Skins. Kirkburn  talk  contr    15:18, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Wookieepedia needs this turned off

We had the YouTube extension disabled long ago and didn't expect an evil clone of the YouTube extension to infect our wiki. See starwars:Forum:SH_Archive/YouTube#YouTube_disabled where no less than Angela herself informed us that we had been freed from this nonsense. -- Darth Culator ^(Talk) 01:17, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

• You always want new features disabled... :) Lombax Jerk | My talk 05:39, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
  • Well, this is a feature that should be disabled there; they've made the decision not to have videos a long time ago. --Michaeldsuarez ^{(Talk) (Deeds)} 13:54, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

As ever, it's optional. I have now set it to false on Wookieepedia. I don't see what's evil about allowing people to add videos, anyway. They're just moving images. Kirkburn  talk  contr    16:15, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

• The difference is attitude. Wookieepedia feels that if this feature was allowed, it'll be misused. Wookieepedia prides itself as being a encyclopedia, and it wants to remain encyclopedic. --Michaeldsuarez ^{(Talk) (Deeds)} 16:58, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Well, Wikipedia is starting to allow video usage now. Of course, I realise it can be misused, but so can images. Anyway, naturally it is your choice :) Kirkburn  talk  contr    17:55, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Can't get Metacafe.com video default size when embedded

Embedded videos are wonderful. I want to add another embedded video to this page:

• http://cannabis.wikia.com/wiki/Toronto,_Ontario,_Canada

I want to embed a Metacafe.com video at its default size.

Please see this video file page:

• http://cannabis.wikia.com/wiki/Video:Toronto_2006_Global_Marijuana_March

It illustrates the problems I am having doing this. It seems that the width setting defaults to

width="300"

I want the width setting to default to the default size. I think videos look best and sharpest at their default sizes. I also think that they are less of a load on servers being that they don't have to be converted to another size. --Timeshifter 03:13, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

This is intentional: as the different embeds use many different default sizes (and we're planning on over twenty different sources), it could result in very inconsistent pages if everything chose its own size.

You can still redefine the sizes of videos with the width parameter, and in the next release the video page (like [1] will show the "default" embed size under the video so it's easy to find out. Kirkburn  talk  contr    16:32, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

OK. I see how for most users they need to know that when they put brackets around a file name in video space they get consistent results. Is there any way I can figure out myself what the video width is here?: [2]. Right-clicking the video pulls up Flash settings, but no pixel width. It would be nice in the next release to have some kind of checkbox for "native size" or "original size" or something so I don't have to think about adding the width parameter. --Timeshifter 01:36, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

The native width will show on the video page just under the video, like on image pages. I'll pass on the note about some way of using native embed width (possibly |frame| I guess). Kirkburn  talk  contr    14:34, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. Some ideas: How about width="original" or width="native" or something... --Timeshifter 03:47, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

|frame|

might work if it could use the original video width. Here are some related image formatting experiments below using |frame|

I used {{clear}} between them to stop any overlap. It looks like width sizing is not possible with |frame|

I clarified the |frame| info in Help:Displaying images to make it align with wikipedia:Wikipedia:Extended image syntax, and make it clear that sizing does not work with |frame|

---

[[Image:Wiki.png]]

---

[[Image:Wiki.png|70px]]

---

[[Image:Wiki.png|frame]]

---

[[Image:Wiki.png|frame|70px]]

---

[[Image:Wiki.png|frame|right]]

---

[[Image:Wiki.png|frame|right|70px]]

---

[[Image:Wiki.png|frame|left]]

That's it for now. --Timeshifter 10:30, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

Pretty :P Current request is that |frame| will show videos at their "native" width - that is, the size as chosen by the video embed site. Kirkburn  talk  contr    15:17, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Need layout option for no text wrap around a video

[[Image:Wikia logo fullsize.png|right|60px]]

In the video display options menu (after clicking the insert-video toolbar icon) there are only left and right alignment options. With both of those options text wraps around the video. It is the same as for images:

[[Image:Wikia logo fullsize.png|left|60px]]

Could you also add the "none" option as for images. See the image wikicode below.

[[Image:Wikia logo fullsize.png|none|60px]]

By the way

[[Image:Wikia logo fullsize.png|60px]]

produces this:

So the default setting for images if no alignment setting is selected is "none".

That is different from the settings for videos where if no alignment setting is selected then the default setting is "left". See an example here:

• http://cannabis.wikia.com/wiki/Video:Toronto_2006_Global_Marijuana_March

Adding "none" to the video wikicode has no effect. It still defaults to left alignment with text wrap around the video. --Timeshifter 06:58, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

See the problem in action here: [3] -- LordTBT ^Talk! 13:50, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing this out: we're taking a look. Kirkburn  talk  contr    16:43, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Copyright tags

Where do we sit with regard to copyright, do we need to tag these videos (as is done with images)? Or do not need to worry as nothing is actually uploaded to the individual wikias, as it's just an embedded video player with the videos hosted on YouTube (or where ever else)? --Tangerineduel 10:02, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

I am not a lawyer, but since these are embedded videos and not locally hosted, I'm fairly sure the onus is on the hosting websites. Kirkburn  talk  contr    16:34, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

I like it very much. 12:24, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Awesome!

Thanks for this cool feature- makes it easier than before to embed videos! Will make the pages more exciting! --Anupam 14:40, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

O.K.

It's okay, but it doesn't work on mine, because I don't have the right Flash Player. :( Ugh.

(Prissymis 19:40, 5 February 2009 (UTC))

Awesome

Thanks Alot it helps me put stuff on and in. User:King Zant of the Twili

How to add caption and fix the placement at the same time

Let's say I want this:

This is the text............
  
[[Video here with caption!]]
  
Another text................

But it doesn't work. You see! The video can't be fixed at the location I want if I want to display caption.
Is there any way I can do this? If not, please add new options to allow this!
The actual result:

This is the text............

File:YouTube demo

Another text................

--Comeon 10:01, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

This is how images work - we want to make it as consistent as possible. We're working on adding some more of the image-related syntax that could help with this, but for now <br style="clear:left;" /> is your friend :) Kirkburn  talk  contr    14:51, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

{{clear}} also works if the wiki in question has installed the template. --Timeshifter 10:35, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks a lot, Timeshifter and Kirkburn  talk  contr   . It's just what I want.--Comeon 10:10, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

You are welcome. You may also need wikipedia:Template:clearleft. I installed that on the wiki I edit. See: [4]. It produces something similar to what Kirkburn showed us:

<div style="clear:left"></div>

One pastes in {{clearleft}}

I found it useful on this page, [5], in the video section. It stops the text from wrapping around the second video, yet it allows the right-aligned images to continue unhindered down the right side in a column of images. --Timeshifter 19:23, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

(unindent) It seems that {{clearleft}} is not adequate in some cases. See this sandbox page on another wiki. I had to use the old video format to get rid of the long white space break between the 2 videos. See the "Another format" version farther down the page to see the results of the corrected format. --Timeshifter 06:30, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

The big white-space gap problem has been solved. See:

http://help.wikia.com/wiki/Help_talk:Video_Embed_Tool#Float_problem_solved --Timeshifter 20:10, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

Concerning new video tool...

So, i have tried this new tool to embedd videos and i think its little incomplete. Not bad tho, but its still faster and easier for me to embedd my videos by copy-paste similar content from other wikia pages and then just copy-paste my video URL and YouTube id number from another open Tab. When embedding a video with this tool, the content in the edit page needs still a lot of editing to make it clear, right and adequate. IMO --File:Youtube1smaller.jpeg CryonBrion (Talk) 11:35, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

a problem

There is a problem with this tool in Hebrew. The video is on the display options and on the "insert" button, so it's impossible to add video in this way.

I'll pass it on, thanks for the report. Kirkburn  talk  contr    18:39, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Thank You

Makes things so much easier.

Thanks,

AsgarothXc 15:43, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Wikitubia spotlight

Is it's spotlight related to this new feature (I'm the last active admin there but I retired)... --YOWUZA TALK 2 ME! 15:58, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Just an opportune moment, I guess. I don't personally know of anything specific. Kirkburn  talk  contr    18:51, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

I decided to return as a result of the spotlight. --YOWUZA TALK 2 ME! 17:01, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

Report

Thanks a lot for the update on your Video embedded tool feature. I will try using it once I get the hang of it. By the way, I tried to upload an image very recently in the article on "The Apostolic Constitutions," but it got blocked for spam.

Thanks to Kathleen, however, for uploading the image for the "Antioch" article.

Jdgray 18:24, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks :) Regarding the image, which wiki was this, and did the error message give anything more specific? Kirkburn  talk  contr    18:51, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Thank You Wikia!

Great! This new feature Will lead to some seriously Awsome Articles!

Wikia Fan Forever, Cd95 V2 22:04, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

This is so COOL!

... to quote Anupam ... "Thanks for this cool feature- makes it easier than before to embed videos! Will make the pages more exciting! --Anupam 14:40, 5 February 2009 (UTC)" Thanks! This is going to be awesome. :) Will ccna certification training kits

Videos still playing after deletion

Today, I had to go through and delete several videos added to Redwall. However, after deletion, the page where the code is to play the video still works. The videos still play just fine. -- LordTBT ^Talk! 01:39, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

I think that, unlike Images, when you delete a Video: page you are deleting only the wiki page, but not the database record that makes a relation between the video name and the URL of the video. This should not happen, since some problems may occur (primary key errors if the same video is uploaded again?). --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) ^-WikiDex 19:59, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

So you're saying if someone uploads several videos unnecessary, and then an admin goes and deletes them, the admin will also have to find all the pages they are located on, and remove those links too? That's a lot. -- LordTBT ^Talk! 04:31, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

Yes. Unless Wikia fix it :) See also the message below this (#Not showing in WhatLinksHere) --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) ^-WikiDex 19:02, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, just confirmed and reported this issue - will get it sorted. LordTBT, wouldn't you delete the redlinks most of the time anyway? Kirkburn  talk  contr    15:10, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

You mean the red links to a deleted video? Sure, but the point is if someone uploads an inappropriate video, it's still playable after deletion - thus what is the purpose of deleting a video at all?

Another issue I've found - I deleted a video because I selected the wrong link from YouTube. Then I uploaded a new video with the same name (after deleting), yet Wikia still displays a file history despite the deletion: [6] -- LordTBT ^Talk! 08:27, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

That's probably a result of the same thing - will check after the deletion bug is fixed. Kirkburn  talk  contr    16:26, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Kirkburn, the issue concerning a file history remaining after deletion and re-upload is still occurring. -- LordTBT ^Talk! 04:33, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

It's still in the queue - I will prod it :) Kirkburn  talk  contr    12:50, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

Not showing in WhatLinksHere

Videos embedded into a wiki page are not shown in Special:WhatLinksHere. That's really a bug, since the pros of having them in a new namespace is that you can track what videos are uploaded and which pages use them, so if we need to remove or change them is easy to find them, but now they're like a youtube tag --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) ^-WikiDex 19:48, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks - passing it on. Kirkburn  talk  contr    15:13, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Brilliant Idea

--Mcjakeqcool 15:07, 11 February 2009 (UTC)Brillaint Idea adding a video to my wiki edit options, it makes editing wiki a lot easyer. Many thanks to wiki, cheers! mcjakeqcool Mcjakeqcool 15:07, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

How to change Category??

Hi, is there a way to change the Category that is automatically added? Is there anything in MediaWiki you can change to add custom text? — Jeiara^Talk 17:15, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

It should be controlled by MediaWiki:Wikiavideo-category (but note it may only affect videos created after the change). Kirkburn  talk  contr    18:30, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, it doesn't seem to work, maybe you can check it out here. — Jeiara^Talk 19:49, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

UPDATE: Nothing seems to work...we've tried putting:

1. [[Category:categoryname]]
2. categoryname
3. *categoryname

The category always stays [[Category:Videos]] no matter what we put in [[MediaWiki:Wikiavideo-category]]. If anyone else has ideas, here is our discussion. Thanks so much! — Jeiara^Talk 21:02, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

We aren't able to reproduce the issue - is this still occurring? Kirkburn  talk  contr    10:36, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Video Bugs: can't use pre or nowiki code to display video code, doesn't support wiki codes in caption

I found there are discrepancy between Image code and Video code.

First nowiki or pre code doesn't work to stop video code from parsing:

• [[Video:Example|thumb|left|I [http://www.xxxxx.com want] a [[link]]]]

(I have used the nowiki code but it doesn't work!)

• [[Video:Example|thumb|left|I [http://www.xxxxx.com want] a [[link]]]]

(I have used the pre code but it doesn't work!)

Second no wiki code is supported in video caption, unlike the image caption.

• [[Image:Example.jpg|thumb|left|I [http://www.xxxxx.com want] a [[link]]]]
• 〔〔Video:Example|thumb|left|I [http://www.xxxxx.com want] a [[link]]]]

Result:

File:Example

--Comeon 19:38, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Namespace translation

The new namespace name need to be change to "Vidéo" on french wikis. — TulipVorlax 14:08, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

And the associated talk space need to be changed to "Discussion Vidéo". — TulipVorlax 19:36, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

New Feature!

One word! AWESOME! I love the whole thing. I can't wait to post videos!--Seinfeldfan24 "In a Chianese restruaunt? Do they take money?" -Jerry Seinfeld 17:03, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Does not work for me

I tried this tool, on Fitness Wiki, but it does not embed the video, only a link? All as I see is this:

thumb|300px|left

Video:Pushups1

Rev Bem 17:22, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

They're working on it; please see Forum:Video embed tool disappeared from editor. --Michaeldsuarez ^{(Talk) (Deeds)} 19:25, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Not embedding properly

I added a video to the article Papu's Pyramid on Bandipedia and it isn't showing up properly on the article. --YOWUZA TALK 2 ME! 17:26, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

They're working on it; please see Forum:Video embed tool disappeared from editor. --Michaeldsuarez ^{(Talk) (Deeds)} 17:41, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Another Bug

Deleted videos still appear in the new files gallery, example: [7] (the neopets, etc.) Also, many videos that are supposed to be there are listed as "missing". -- LordTBT ^Talk! 04:48, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

I'd like to know the status of this bug please, I have a lot of "Missing Files" listed in the gallery I don't want listed at all. -- LordTBT ^Talk! 17:00, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Odd - I'll see what I can find out. Kirkburn  talk  contr    18:14, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Icon Not Present

I got a message saying "Check out the new Add Video icon on your toolbar right next to the Add Picture icon that allows you to easily embed videos from around the web onto any wiki page." But there isn't an Add Video icon on my toolbar on the Castlevania Wiki. (http://castlevania.wikia.com) Is there something I need to do for this to appear on my wiki? Is it easy. I tried digging around help on how to do this before, and it looks like I have to mess around with Javascript, so I just backed away. Can I expect this icon to magically appear one of these days? --Reinhart77 03:51, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Improve Load Times?

Will using this method improve the loading times of pages with a bunch of videos on it over the Youtube tag? I tried to make a page containing eight different youtube videos in a table using that tag, but it takes forever for the initial image to load on all the videos, presumably because it creating a separate connection with youtube for each video. Does this new method contain image saves of the videos so that the videos don't have to load from YouTube unless you actually press the "play" button on the video? Or do I still need to ration the use of videos per page? --Reinhart77 03:59, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

I don't think it will make much difference to the speed - it's still going to be heavily dependent on the video site it pulls the video from. Kirkburn  talk  contr    18:16, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

[Still another] bug?

Pages in the Video: namespace doesn't seem to be detected by Semantic MediaWiki, but the SMW "links" themselves do work. --koisuru (talk) 09:45, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

I believe SMW has to be activated for specific non-content namespace. Last time I tried to get staff to do it (on webcomics.wikia) they didn't know how to :P Ose ^{Talk • Contribs} 12:35, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Nice

I think that this will help out in a lot of wikis. The only problem is I can't get the message off my talk page telling me about it. The dismiss button isn't there. --JewntansOath ^{My talk page / My contributions / Send me an email} 00:15, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

"special page" bug

See w:c:Tibia:Special:Contributions/72.161.230.110 - this wiki is protected from anon edits, and he manages to create it -- on top of this, it's a special page of all things, .. wtf? -- Sixorish 01:43, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

also, the Video namespace has the same video he uploaded, but his contribution entry says 'special:' -- Sixorish 02:04, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Also found one in the image namespace, page was yet to be created though, but it had a link to delete:

Error deleting file: The file "a/af/Video:Annihilator" cannot be deleted, because it does not exist.

Video:Annihilator has been deleted.

Return to Main Page.

No entry in RC about it being deleted though. -- Sixorish 16:17, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Daily Motion

• Hello!
• When will it be possible to import videos from Daily Motion?

--G.E. 11:50, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

I'll add it to our list of sites to look at. Kirkburn  talk  contr    14:30, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Videos not working?

Videos aren't working for me. -- LordTBT ^Talk! 03:24, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Where are you seeing this issue? Kirkburn  talk  contr    12:26, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

[8] -- LordTBT ^Talk! 17:50, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

It looks like specific videos ... do you know of anything special that happened to those missing? E.g. actions performed on them, dates uploaded? Helps us narrow down the cause. Kirkburn  talk  contr    12:17, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

I guess it appears to be just that one...and at 2 different times an anonymous IP messed with it as you can see in the file history...however what's bothering me is that it says here that a user who is not an admin restored a video revision. -- LordTBT ^Talk! 19:00, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Really? No one's had any trouble with this yet?

Wow, my wiki's real f**king lucky, then.

On the digimon wiki, we have seen a lot of instances of IP's being able to screw with the videos. There is absolutely no way to prevent this, you can only clean up after it and hope the IP doesn't switch too much for you to handle.

From what I can tell, the IP is able to do this by using the "revert to a previous version" button on the video's page.

1. The IP is able to do this without even being logged in, despite all normal policies on uploads, which require logged in users with a few days experience to upload.
2. You are unable to block the IP from the logs, as instead of showing the actual IP in question, the uploader is named as the unblockable "An unknown anonymous user".
3. You cannot delete the article and either restore revisions or reupload it under the same name. The past revisions log will still be there.
4. No level of protection will prevent this - I tested this by sysop-protecting it and then logging out, and it was still susceptible.

May I ask, wikia, why you added a system whose main differences from the normal file upload process was mainly that all security measures were removed? Even those security measures which exist on basic wiki articles?Golf lima oscar romeo india oscar uniform sierra Charlie Hotel Alpha Oscar Sierra! 08:57, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

By posting here the community will be aware thanks you, but wikia people may dismiss it by accident, its best for bugs to report them by Special:Contact --Cizagna ^{(Talk) Dofus} » 15:10, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Does email to Special:Contact go to an email list? Is the email publicly archived? I like my email address to stay private. At Wikipedia there are various public email lists for discussing ideas and problems. That is why I ask. Could someone clarify this on the Special:Contact page so that others with the same questions get answers to these questions too? --Timeshifter 13:58, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

I reported this forum page to the Community Team, so they could look into it. --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) ^-WikiDex 17:00, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

I'm having this happen right now over at Redwall myself, and I've blocked the entire IP range and he keeps returning to revert a video. -- LordTBT ^Talk! 17:04, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

It has been reported, by lots of people. As far as I knew it was fixed. I'm tracking down why it didnt take effect. --Uberfuzzy 18:10, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

I have been using the other video embedding method without problems: Help:YouTube extension. --Timeshifter 14:10, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

This issue is already fixed. --Inez 11:30, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

It happened once on bandipedia, but only that one time. --YOWUZA TALK 2 ME! 13:18, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

This issue isn't fixed, I had an IP vandal attempt to modify a video just last night. -- LordTBT ^Talk! 18:46, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

I believe he meant "the issue has now been fixed", at the time he wrote it. Kirkburn  talk  contr    13:12, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Float problem solved

Big white-space gap problem has been solved (gaps between stacked videos). See:

• http://help.wikia.com/wiki/Help_talk:Video_Embed_Tool#Float_problem_solved

This can occur when trying to stack videos on the left and images on the right. --Timeshifter 20:19, 25 April 2009 (UTC)