User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Wiki Video Types and How You Can Create Them/@comment-4457974-20170419042703

I've always thought Wikia was more about the user-generated content than anything else, so the fact that you're trying to so heavily emphasize videos that you create with just some input by the users is strange to me, but it's good that apparently the input from users is a big priority for you and will hopefully be able to have as big an impact as ppossible. My personal desire would be to shift the focus of Wikia videos toward user control and user-generated content more and more over time. Just 'cause I thought that was the point of the site...user-generated content.

Of course, I'm really not completely sold on the idea of emphasizing videos on Wikia to begin with, but it could work. I just hope you lose the part where the video is treated like the most important thing on the page and everything else is shoved down. But even if you have to have that, please, please, PLEASE no Autoplay. Autoplay is usually a terrible design decision unless the entire point of the page is watching a video, like on YouTube, and it's definitely bad in this context because most people aren't even going to the article for a video, they're going there to get reference information.