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• Sarah Manley •

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Related videos module

Hey, Sarah. I noticed your announcement at memoryalpha:forum:related videos module coming soon, and I was wondering if I could sorta apply for early adoption on this wiki. We have a finicky li'l video policy, and I'd love to provide input on whether the new module works with our policies.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 18:08: Sun 03 Jun 2012 

Hi there, If everyone agrees here, we can totally add you to the list. I'll let you know when its supposed to go live. --Sarah<staff /> (help forum | blog) 17:19, June 4, 2012 (UTC)

Hey, Sarah. Whatcha mean blank? The RVM is still very much around, if in the original way I thought it was supposed to be used. MediaWiki:RelatedVideosGlobalList is blank, but we still have plenty of videos on the site, as you can see at, say, Third Doctor. There's plenty of activity in the RVM namespace. I'm still very much interested in beta testing whatever this "new way" of using the RVM is.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  00:34: Thu 20 Sep 2012

Yes that's actually why I am getting in touch. The Related Videos module was built as a proof-of-concept feature and we knew it wasn't scalable to launch on many more wikis. We've reached the point in our Video project where we're confident enough to turn on for more wikis (release plan TBD). However, this requires some functionality changes. We've changed the add a video button so it posts all videos directly to the global list. The existing page-specific video lists are still being respected and only appear on that specific page. This behavior is going to change though, and starting Oct 3rd the page-specific video list will be merged into the global list. That means that anything you have programmed specifically to a page will be seen not only there, but accessible from the Related Videos module on every page. We will no longer offer page specific videos. The RelatedVideos pages will become non-functional pages and anything you add there will not be seen in the Related Videos module. I know you did a lot of page specific customizations, so I am sorry that this is being removed. You can copy the videos listed there and paste them in a gallery on the related article.

In the near future the module will also automatically pull in high quality, licensed, relevant videos from the Wikia Video Library and automatically add them to your module so you will have the latest and best video content from our content providers. Only Admins will be able to edit what appears in the Related Videos module so you can remove what you feel is not appropriate. The "add a video" button will remain so that you can continue to encourage your community to contribute relevant videos to your wiki.

We're shifting the module to perform as a discovery mechanism like the rest of the right rail. Our statistics show that people are six times more likely to watch videos that are embedded into articles than they are to watch videos in the Related Videos module. Thanks and please let me know if you have any further questions. --Sarah<staff /> (help forum | blog) 18:59, September 20, 2012 (UTC)

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