GuildWiki talk:Suggestions/Youtube and Screenshot links

The reason not to index YouTube videos is that they're not useful. The resolution is too low to give more than a vague idea of what is going on. If you don't already know how to do the mission before seeing the video, it may give you even less than a vague idea of what the video is showing.

As for a screenshot index, how would this differ from the current system of simply putting screenshots on the page where they're useful? Quizzical 21:39, 22 July 2008 (UTC)


 * People put youtube videos up, so they must find them useful for something. They might be even more useful if the author (or someone else in the know) explained on our wiki what was going on. This added value would drive users looking for videos to our wiki at same point. (It might also drive youtube-style comments to our wiki, which would be a drawback. But I digress.)


 * Youtube videos could be useful for documenting in-game animations (e.g. emotes) and the general looks of an area in lieu of using a vast number of screenshots.


 * There are many screenshots for locations, and only one or two are ever included in any article. Example: Recently, Vipermagi was looking for the place for User_talk:Vipermagi, and the only way to find it was to look for it in-game. A screenshot gallery might have enabled him to narrow it down using wiki resources. We have more screenshots than mainspace articles. This could be a strength. Why not organize them? --◄mendel► 21:54, 22 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Most of the time, the people who put up the links to the Youtube videos are also the people who created the Youtube videos, and they're simply spam-linking their video everywhere so they can increase their view count and feel important. I agree with Quizzical that Youtube videos in general are not very useful.  I have seen some where the video author included screens of text with explanations/comments, but they are few and far between.
 * As for screenshots, I'd estimate that at least half of those are pictures of users' characters, chat logs, or other such images that would not be at all useful to mainspace articles. The majority of the usefulscreenshots are already linked on the relevant pages - if they weren't, they'd show up on Special:Unusedimages.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 22:19, 22 July 2008 (UTC)


 * If we encouraged people to, they'd probably post screenshots of "see, I beat this mission". Some people already post text saying about as much in mission talk pages, without saying anything meaningful about how they beat the mission.  But that wouldn't be any more useful than YouTube videos.  Quizzical 22:32, 22 July 2008 (UTC)