Thread:Matsczon/@comment-25503930-20170513143901/@comment-4511886-20170514164810

Hello Julia. The relevant staff, including myself, have all looked over this and collected our opinions, and I cannot say we are all that impressed by this. There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with the videos themselves, but we think the development of the Discussions board should be completed before you start tackling something that seems to border on a universal requirement. Additionally, the videos are far too intrusive. Having to scroll past that big of a video if you're not interested in watching it is going to detract a lot from the user experience, not to mention that it starts playing automatically if you scroll past it.

As such, my staff and I would recommend finishing up the Discussions board first and foremost, as it has a couple of flaws that should be dealt with quickly, the most obvious being that Discussions Moderators, who by definition are there to moderate said board, must ask an Administrator or Bureaucrat to block a user instead of just being able to do it themselves. In the time that can take, said user could cause a lot of unnecessary damage, thus wasting the staff's time.

After the Discussions board's issues are dealt with, we would be more open to this development, although it, again, needs to be less intrusive. These videos are going to take up a huge chunk of articles they are featured on, and are simply in the way if the reader does not want to watch it. Most importantly, these video/article hybrids have no particular value over just going to another wiki and reading their article on the same subject, where they get the information they need right away, or going on YouTube and watching a video on the same subject as the wiki's video. I would personally recommend either putting the video in the bottom-right from the start, having it expand at the push of a button from the reader, or leaving the video's placement on the article to staff discretion.

Hoping for a quick respone. -Matsczon