User blog comment:Sarah Manley/ Product Update - Video/@comment-188432-20120320144848

Thanks for the reply yesterday, Sarah. Obviously you and the dev team are seeing further down the development track than I am, so I've got to believe that there are, indeed, cool things coming off the back of this change. You're saying that you're already working on filtering and recognition of new uploads. That's important. You asked for suggestions about what this "new video" alert should look like, and I don't think I have particularly strong feelings one way or another. It'd be nice if it could just be kept in WikiaStats where it is now, but it could just as easily be pulled up into the AdminTools "stats snapshot" area on the far right column.

To me, though, that's kinda secondary. The thing of absolute greatest importance is giving us something about the filename that indelibly marks the file as a video. Again, I stress that automatically adding category:videos is not enough, because the user can simply delete that category immediately after upload (which, believe me, they've done at w:c:tardis).

If we've now pulled forking the qualities of ns:6 onto ns:400 off the table — that is, if the merger is inevitable — then I'd strongly urge the automatic placement of a universal sequence of characters into every single video name. Just brand 'em with. Even better, throw it on the front of the name, so that the nomenclature becomes. That's probably preferable, in fact, because of bot parameters like.

Somethjing along these lines has gotta be feasible. For the majority of wikis that'd be something easy to wrap the mind around — all videos begin with  — but for those of us who care about the nature of the content being uploaded, we've got an easy regex "hook" to look for.

Again, I want to make it clear that I'm not opposed to this move outright. I just want to retain tools that make it easy for administrative teams to regulate video content easily.