User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/An Update on the Future of Featured Video/@comment-5392588-20191211045245

Literally every user hates the idea of featured video and you guys proceeded to executively produce one instead of just abandoning the entire thing. From what I understand is that you guys planning to is throw away money to a bunch of people to produce trivial content that noone asks for. There were nothing wrong with the feature that lets you put videos on wiki pages, I think it is a good idea. What you dun goofed on is that you doesn't actually let the local admins vet for which video they want to pop up, the global admin choose it for them instead. The local admin would've actually known the video that the users would beinterested to see because they are also the user of that wiki.

I think the entire dogma of trying to promote wikis is an exact opposite of what we need. As always, I still think that promoting wiki is a menial issue as the google algorithm choses whichever link gets the most clicks and views and that would indeed be inflating the numbers. Majority of users here doesn't browse wikis using the fandom's tabs, Instead they type the exact name of the wiki they want to see on google. Getting more people to visit a wiki will not help anyone. You're attracting viewers, not editors who would actually be willing to put up voluntary work on wikis.

Instead please focus on helping those who already works on their respective wikis. You guys should focus on features that makes the "WIKI" more attractive for the editors. So far as I know, the attractiveness of the wiki (for the viewers) depends on the editors and how well they worked on their wiki. Most user I know have problem navigating between pages on a within the wiki itself since most newbie editor tends to ignore important wiki components like linking, infobox, navbox, categories, etc. Think of adding features like automatic hyperlinking or making the advanced features more user friendly for the less tech savvy users.