User blog comment:Sarah Manley/ Product Update - Video/@comment-876022-20120320033638

Not sure about this. I've read the previous comments and still want to know whether or not Wikia will up-hold the decisions of individual wikis, in the Forum NS or otherwise, from years ago when the Video NS hack was made to not include them on those wikis. In this case, the RuneScape Wiki currently does not have the namespace because videos are not how we want to present material.

We attempt to present everything in NPOV and if we have people uploading videos or importing (however it used to and does work) videos, it eliminates the individual wiki's ability to moderate the content. My concerns rise from both the in-ability to moderate what is in videos (this is what text is for), the quality of the videos (no matter what, they will be subjective and not NPOV), and becoming a further addition to the current cleaning up of bad files and cleanups that currently plague the RSW.

As mentioned before, it would be best to end the file with the file type that it is. For this moment, the only "file" video that is possible to upload is OGG with the usage of the handler extension. However, few know how to make such files and any future non-OGG videos uploaded need to be able to be properly shoved through AbuseFilter so that they don't get uploaded. When this change is done, it needs to have the file extension (FLV, MP4, MPEG, etc.) so that it's easily detected. Personally, I'd like to see if Wikia can prevent video uploads based on whether or not the wiki in question had the Video NS enabled or not.