User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Why Fandom Evolves: A Look Ahead in 2017/@comment-3359255-20170111185656/@comment-24458012-20170112174116

I suggest that that the statement about video vs long article depends on the Wiki. If the Wiki is about a very visual source, like one dealing with films or games then that may be correct. However, our Malazan Wiki is about books, and fan art images is as visual as it gets. I think we have one video somewhere... maybe...

I hope that with all this talk about the visual, Wikia won't forget that providing information is still very much at the core of many Wikis and will put an equal amount of effort into making the process of adding information as smooth as possible. What most Wikis need more than anything, visual ones as well as non-visual ones, is content. It does not matter how funky it looks, or how easy it is to access, without content it won't go anywhere. We need as many features as possible which encourage new contributors and help them get started.

As for videos they may be fun but if a user is after real information then I believe that they are more likely to look at text as they can target where they are looking and the information is likely to be more detailed. When I look at interesting news items on yahoo or google for example, I mostly don't bother if there is a video link because they tend to have very little info. Instead, I take a note of some pertinent details and search for a news article on the topic instead. Egwene of the Malazan Empire (talk) 17:41, January 12, 2017 (UTC)