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The Related Videos Module (RVM) is a part of the Wikia skin which displays a series of videos relevant to a particular page. This help file tells you more about how to use the RVM. On this wiki, use of the RVM is governed by a few rules discussed elsewhere.

The RVM is in beta as of August 2012. It is therefore possible that at the time you read this document, features described herein may have changed.

Definition

The RVM from the Fifth Doctor's page

The RVM exists in the right column of every page in the main namespace. Used properly, it can greatly enhance our readers' experience of our wiki.

It can lift a page from being simply a collection of text and pictures to one that offers readers a chance to hear directly from behind-the-scenes personnel on various subjects, as can be seen on the page Michael E. Briant. It can provide a trailer for a story, as at Earthshock and The Lodger. Or it can help identify some of the lesser-known characters in Doctor Who history, as with Carol Bell. It can even serve as a sort of "current photograph" of an individual, as at Barbara Windsor.

As long as we're obeying both our video and Related Videos policies, it's in some ways better than a static photo. Provided we're taking the video from the YouTube channel of a legal rights-holder to the video, we don't have to worry about copyright issues.

But it also carries with it the potential for abuse. Obviously, we don't want someone's Rose/Ten 'shipping video on the site. Nor do we want people posting the entirety of an episode here. Administrators must therefore occasionally check Category:Videos to see if the videos automatically placed in that category comply with our policies.

Adding video

Posting new video to a page is extremely easy.

1. Copy the URL of the YouTube video you'd like to add.
2. Go to the Tardis page where you want to place it.
3. Hit the "add a video" button
4. Paste the URL
5. Hit "Add"

You should not change the name of the video in any way. Just copy it from YouTube, paste it directly, and hit "Add".

What kinds of video should be added?

This is covered in greater detail at the policy page. However, the basic idea is implied in the subtitle of the RVM module. If you look at the picture above, you'll see that it says there are "23 videos about or featuring the Fifth Doctor".

In other words, the videos on a page should be relevant to the page topic in an obvious way. Here are some use cases:

• On the page David Walliams, it's cool to put videos of Come Fly with Me or his other work, because this helps our non-British readers contextualise his career a little better
• On The Sun Makers (TV story), it's good to have both clips from the show, and clips about the making of the serial.
• At hypnotism, it's good to show examples of hypnotism from various stories.
• At Doctor Who (pinball machine), we've included an interview with Matt Smith and others as they played a game of Doctor Who pinball
• At noose there's the only example of a near-hanging in Doctor Who history
• At BBC America, there's a whole collection of videos that demonstrate American marketing of Doctor Who
• On Big Finish Productions, we've used video of Nick Briggs explaining how to use the revamped BF website
• At Barbara Windsor, we've used an appearance on Rob Brydon's programme to show what Windsor currently looks like

In short, there are a lot of legitimate uses for the RVM.

Deleting a video

If you make a mistake and want to delete a video from a page, send a note to CzechOut, who'll take care of the problem for you.