User blog comment:Kirkburn/Technical Update: June 4, 2013/@comment-4981281-20130611111048/@comment-452-20130611170635

I miss Dopp, she was really good at knowing what people actually meant when they inadvertently used the wrong words.

Tormented Sufferer's confusion stems from the fact that "Add a video" and "Add a photo" links both use the word "Add", and to a non-technical user, there is no clear distinction between the two processes, or any obvious explanation to how "Adding a video" works.
 * Upon taking a look at a video file page, I notice that it says "From Youtube", and not "This file is hosted on Youtube", giving no indication that the video is not hosted by Wikia.
 * The word youtube is linked to youtube.com, not the actual video page, so even clicking that link gives no indication either.
 * The "File History" tab even has a link "Upload a new version of this file", indicating that the video is indeed uploaded and that it is possible to Upload a new version.

Wikia should look into hiring a User Interface specialist in order to avoid this kind of confusion.
 * As an aside, I was recently told "your wiki is a mess", and after asking for examples, their problem was with Wikia's UI, not with the content or structure of the wiki. I've been here so long I don't really notice anymore, but Wikia's UI isn't very cohesive. For instance, this blog comment form - most users wouldn't know that it has different origins to the forum comment form, and wonder why on earth they look completely different.  The fact that the comment forms work vastly differently makes for a bad user experience, as does the fact that so many system pages are formatted differently.  Now, many times that's a Mediawiki problem, but the difference between blog and forum UIs is entirely on Wikia.

Anyway, given the fact that Wikia's UI does not make a clear distinction, we can tell that Tormented Sufferer is using the word "upload" to mean "add/create", similar to how many people use the word "download" to mean "upload", because they think it means "transfer".

While the video itself is not "uploaded (copied to wikia)", a file page is added, so mentally replacing all of his uses of the word "upload" with "add" works fine for understanding what he is saying. In the case "add to a hosting site" it can still be understood to means "upload to a hosting site" and "add to wikia" can be understood as "create a file page on wikia".