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# '''<nowiki>[[Special:NewFiles]]</nowiki>''': this method, as designed by Fandom, allows videos from Dailymotion, Vime, Youku, and YouTube. So, all these sites should be a-okay. | # '''<nowiki>[[Special:NewFiles]]</nowiki>''': this method, as designed by Fandom, allows videos from Dailymotion, Vime, Youku, and YouTube. So, all these sites should be a-okay. | ||
# '''EmbedVideo''': now for the juicy one. Remember how I said, regarding lost media, we wouldn't even need to traditionally embed the video onto the site? Well, here we go — with this method... we don't ''need'' to. With <tt><nowiki>{{#ev:service|id|dimensions|alignment|description}}</nowiki></tt>, we can display videos from, well, [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EmbedVideo#Supported_services everything listed here]. Which is a lot. If we can recognise we aren't going to be sued over a YouTube upload, we can allow lost media. It's not illegal to link to a video! And even if the copyright holder does want to remove it, they'll just copyright strike the video, as is everything with YouTube. {{User:Epsilon the Eternal/signature}} 21:53, 22 August 2023 (UTC) | # '''EmbedVideo''': now for the juicy one. Remember how I said, regarding lost media, we wouldn't even need to traditionally embed the video onto the site? Well, here we go — with this method... we don't ''need'' to. With <tt><nowiki>{{#ev:service|id|dimensions|alignment|description}}</nowiki></tt>, we can display videos from, well, [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EmbedVideo#Supported_services everything listed here]. Which is a lot. If we can recognise we aren't going to be sued over a YouTube upload, we can allow lost media. It's not illegal to link to a video! And even if the copyright holder does want to remove it, they'll just copyright strike the video, as is everything with YouTube. {{User:Epsilon the Eternal/signature}} 21:53, 22 August 2023 (UTC) | ||
:I '''support''' all the proposals made in the OP. [[User:Pluto2|Pluto2]][[User talk:Pluto2|<span title="talk to me">☎</span>]] 22:23, 22 August 2023 (UTC) | |||
