Help:Fandom Video Player

Wiki Videos are shown in a featured placement at the top of select article pages on top FANDOM communities. This is an additional way to provide information to readers.

How the player works
On desktop, Wiki Videos display at the top of some article pages on top FANDOM communities. These videos are added by FANDOM staff via a backend process. When you open a page with a Wiki Video, the video will automatically play without sound. You can disable the autoplay option for a short period of time in the Settings menu on the video player. Note that disabling autoplay in one video will apply the same action to all other videos on all other wikis.

When you scroll down the page, the video minimizes into a smaller player in the lower right hand corner of the page. The video can be paused, and the minimized player can be dismissed at any time. Once you scroll back to top, it will re-appear, largely, at the top of the article area.



On mobile web pages that have Portable Infoboxes, Wiki Videos display within the infobox and remain fixed at the top once you begin to scroll. If the page has a non-Portable Infobox or no infobox at all, the video displays at the top of the page and remains fixed and minimized at the top of the page.



Types of Wiki Videos
FANDOM's Wiki Video team continues to experiment with the types of Wiki Videos that we produce. So far, four key types of Wiki Videos have been featured:


 * High Production Custom Videos. These are custom videos that the Wiki Video team puts extra effort into&mdash;including hosts for the videos, digital effects, voice-over, and more&mdash;for especially high-traffic pages on key communities. These videos spotlight users as authorities on their fandoms. An example of this video is "Will We Ever Visit the Andromeda Galaxy?" for Mass Effect: Andromeda.
 * Templated Video with Voice-Over. These videos follow a basic format that has footage or images about the subject with voice-over. Examples include Newt Scamander and List of spells on Harry Potter Wiki. Some on-screen text may accompany the voice-over.
 * Templated Video with On-Screen Text. Unlike Templated Video with Voice-Over, these videos do not include voice-over but do include on-screen text. One example is Alec Ryder on Mass Effect Wiki.
 * Third Party Videos. These are videos we did not create but have identified as high-quality official videos, like trailers or official gaming videos. Examples include Champion Spotlights on League of Legends Wiki, such as Aatrox.

Wiki Videos are primarily made by FANDOM's video producers. The Wiki Video team also works with YouTube partners and freelancers to produce or spotlight videos for wiki pages.

How this benefits communities
Web users are increasingly looking for information in video form. It offers a quick and digestible way to access information in an entertaining way. FANDOM has always been a source of information for fans, and will continue to be so using wiki text in addition to videos.

Additionally, the advertisements placed in front of Wiki Videos offers FANDOM the opportunity to improve the ad experience on the site. These ads are of such high value that many of the other smaller advertisements that hurt page performance can be removed from the site, so pages with Wiki Videos will have less advertisement clutter and an increase of page load speed. FANDOM is testing new ad placements to determine what the right new format should be.



Next pages

 * Learn more about videos on FANDOM
 * Learn more about Wiki Modernization and how Wiki Videos are used on FANDOM

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