User blog comment:Ieatrice/Results of the 2012 Video Survey/@comment-452-20130322195953

(As all of the comments to my original comment about a single part of my multi-point comment, I'm forking the comment and reposting the rest of my original points)

Yes, a lot of people watch videos online. That doesn't mean people want to watch videos on wikia. I think it's telling that 50% of respondents haven't watched videos on wikia. Did the survey 'ask those people whether they wanted to watch videos on wikia? How many of the 50% who haven't watched videos on wikia have said they would like to?

Videos are what youtube is for. I've read a few youtube comments over the years, and they're not the sort of people I would want as wikia editors. (Although I realise that wikia is more interested in eyeballs than editors.)

The main point of wikia is that anyone can edit. Text is easy to edit, videos are not. Videos are not in-line with the spirit of a wiki because "anyone" cannot edit a video, there's no way to "edit" an embedded video. (Although I would heartily welcome a wikia video editor - most videos people add are terrible and need to be trimmed and cropped, and while it's easy for me to download an image, crop it and re-upload it, it's not as easy for me to do that with a video.)