User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Wiki Video Types and How You Can Create Them/@comment-8117023-20170419173742

No. Go away.

I could have sworn that this was meant to be a wiki farm and not a low-budget knock-off of Buzzfeed. The slideshow/voiceover videos are overly generic, boring and bordering on suicide-inducing. I'd dare say that they're even more sterile than the articles themselves (in 5 years, I doubt anybody will remember what a wiki article was, the way this is going).

The Buzzfeed-style, chroma-keyed discussion videos are carcinogenic. The Doctor Who companion video, for example, was blatant SJW propaganda and the Andromeda video linked to in this blog post was grating. Bloody hell, if you're going to force videos on us, at least make them remotely watchable.

Oh my god, this blog post is an unintentional comedy.
 * > "When we first spoke to you about Wiki Modernization, we talked about how wiki videos are a key part of modernizing the site."

Ah yes, because when I want to make something more progressive, I saturate it with regressive content. The Doctor Who video is hardly progressive. The two women (or whatever gender they allege to be - they look like they went to social justice courses) posit that Bill Potts is the best companion by default because of her fashion sense, because she's black and because she's a lesbian. How thick do you think we are?
 * > "Today's readers enjoy watching videos,"

Thanks for telling me what I'm supposed to like.

I hate videos on articles, personally. I especially hate videos that make reading the article pointless because it makes writing articles pointless. I would have less of an issue with these videos if they actually contained excerpts from the articles they're inhabiting but you have said yourselves that you need to write scripts. You must really hate our guts - "we're not going to use the content that the general public have spent years building, our superior staff members will write them instead and have the communities merely review them".

It also pretty much makes CSS, JavaScript editing and intricate templates completely pointless because everyone will apparently be distracted by the pretty little video featuring the Gok Wan doppelganger.
 * > "and the ads we put in front of great wiki videos will allow us to clean up the ad clutter across the site."

You should have minimised the clutter from square one, not only under circumstances where you could earn more shekels from doing something else.
 * > "To do all of that, we need to create videos that visitors will want to watch."

Trust me, you're succeeding with flying colours.

I hope I haven't scared the horses too much. ;)