User blog comment:Kirkburn/Technical Update: June 4, 2013/@comment-4981281-20130611111048/@comment-3279487-20130611111915

I may have misunderstood something, but the videos are never upload locally on the wiki. Wikia simply have changed the way how they are embedded: instead of directly embed them on articles, they have now their own file page (where they are embedded) which is then transcluded in articles.