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

I strongly oppose the conversion from &lt;youtube&gt; to locally uploaded files for the following reasons:
 * If a video that is not uploaded on any video hosting sites and it needs to be uploaded locally, then a user needs to upload the video twice, once on a hosting site, and once on the local database. If a video is already uploaded on a hosting site, then it still needs to be uploaded on the local database, something that is completely unnecessary with embedding.
 * Why would video views need to be monitored? That is a not important aspect, as we need the illustration for the content, not how much views the illustration gets. What that is needed is the page's traffic itself, which sadly is not an available feature.
 * The "upcoming better video management tools" are obviously for the Visual Editor and the Wikia skin in general; they are certainly useless, because it is an automated process, whereas users must learn HTML syntax in order to contribute efficiently.
 * Page load speed may be decreased, but it does not make much difference with the processing of nowaday's systems; besides, it does not worth all the extra work the administrators of a wiki burdened themselves with for the maintenance of locally uploaded videos.
 * On video project pages, administrators can simply embed videos on them.
 * Some may say that embedded videos are unreliable resources because if they are removed from the video hosting site, they are permanently removed. Of course, this can be countered by embedding videos whose copyrights are clearly stated. A local copy of a video simply does not worth this ; also, considering that if a video with bad copyright information is removed from a video hosting site, it could also be sued on Wikia; we can never know what could happen.