Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1474707-20140611200801/@comment-856287-20140613194312

It seems like the videos module should just be considered another ad; not necessarily relevant or approved content, and not necessarily something you want on the page, but it helps pay the bills. Does the module actually add content to the wiki, like File:Video appears and starts offering itself up when you try to add media to an article?

I agree that 1) it's too HUGE, and 2) it shouldn't displace the chat module. I honestly don't even know why the photos module exists, so who cares if it gets pushed down. Although, you're right in saying at least the photos module is wiki content, whereas the videos module is just automated content for the sake of automated content.

I think the title "Must Watch Videos" is... stupid—rather, dishonest and disrespectful. Why not call it "Watch these videos or your parents will disown you." That's basically as honest as "Must Watch." Luckily that's easily changed to something reasonable like "Related Videos" in MediaWiki:Videosmodule-title-default. You could probably even change it to just "Videos." Making it say "Advertisement" might get you in trouble ;D

I wrote some CSS to make the module look more like a module (instead of a page-takeover that's a mile long), http://cl.ly/W3Vk …but I'm 100% certain doing that is not allowed. I think the videos module should stay if the Wikia hive-mind likes it (and they seem to like it), but it should either be smaller (as I've demonstrated), or, since it's a HUGE list of images (very noticeable no matter where it's placed), it should be the last Rail module.

Or what about this… make the module last in the rail, so it's just using previously unused space and not pushing content away. Then, on short pages, reduce it to the tiny version I made. That way it won't stretch the page out and push footer content away either.