User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Wiki Video Types and How You Can Create Them/@comment-26063280-20170419153113

every time Fandom powered by Wikia introduces a new feature, it seems as if they don't understand humans at all. Whenever I see one of these blogs I always think back to a comment I made on an earlier one.

yeah, videos could be an interesting addition to wikia... except this seems as if you just want people to relay articles in video form and, not only doing that, but prioritizing it over the work of all the editors. It's redundant, first of all, to relay information in a way that makes information harder to find at a glance. Let's say I'm looking for information about a certain game character, like what they sell. I'm not going to sit through a 15+ minute video for that bit of information when the same info is placed just below it.

"Wikis are written by users, which is what makes wikis so authentic" is a true statement, but this is immediately followed by "so you should be as involved in the wiki video creation process as possible". This feels more like you're just milking volunteers' work for your own personal gain. I get that you technically do that already with wikia as a whole, but I feel this is even more blatant since much more work would have to go into making a video than just typing something out on a page.

Finally, my last complaint about this is that it automatically plays the videos. Maybe make it a button on the top of the page that you have to click to begin it and lock it to the side of your screen. When I went onto the page in the Oasis/NWL skin it took more time to load the page than when I opened the page in Monobook- and I'm positive that's solely because of the video. It makes me - and others with crappy computers - less inclined to visit pages with videos attached to them.

That you're removing ads- GREAT! I use the Monobook skin though (which I hope you don't remove anytime soon), so there already aren't many ads already, but it's definitely a good thing for everyone else. That's the only pro I can come up with out of this blog post.