User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/An Update on the Future of Featured Video/@comment-3030475-20191211013837

This sounds like a decent improvement over Featured Videos, at least. But "The Loop" is also the name of a music video show on Australian TV, one with its own annoying pop-ups and ads in other programs. So maybe don't expect to see a positive reaction from Down Under. :p

The end of Featured Videos is both a relief and a disappointment. We started a community project to vet pages and videos and submit scripts. I dropped my projects, picked up another to get a page to high quality, wrote a script, uploaded and selected images, submitted it to you for production, all just to get a video that wasn't rubbish, and I never heard back and it was never made while more rubbish videos appeared. It was a huge waste of time and effort. So I'd be glad to see the back of them.

I've got to agree that the verticals aren't a good basis for selection. As a D&D-based wiki, the Forgotten Realms Wiki covers a tabletop game, novels, comics, video games, and, one day, a movie. But we're a poor fit for the Games category, which only serves up video games. It's saying something that the Forgotten Realms Wiki is currently advertising Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Wookieepedia is advertising The Gentlemen. Well, at least readers get a wider overview of pop culture and don't get stuck in genre bubbles. :)

If these videos are going to discuss and reference other wikis (particularly wikis other than the ones they appear on), can they include links to the relevant wikis and pages? That'll help anyone interested get around the sites.