Board Thread:Consensus track/@comment-4814368-20130620230020/@comment-3523404-20130728091506

I don't want to resist something that our community may desire; if enough opinions are voiced, I would be forced to reconsider for the sake of morale and making our encyclopedia more effective.

Simply, I do not think the issue is relevant at this time. Right now, the biggest problem on the wiki is poor writing. Instead of substituting text with video, we could aim to improve what text we have. I strongly suspect the poor writing is caused by a high reliance on digital media such as video, so we may be unintentionally perpetuating a cycle of ignorance by including video (this is only partly sarcastic). This is why I wrote the help section and the formatting guidelines.

I suppose my next question would be: how does Wikia benefit from The Elders Scrolls Wiki including video content? Surely your recommended cinematographer receives some incentive for creating and uploading content to Wikia. Will these videos contain advertisements? Do we want more advertisements on the wiki? Granted, I have them blocked on my end, it may seem unprofessional or irksome to our readership if they have to sit through a 12 second ad before watching a clip on how to beat a quest or find a rare item. They could just go to YouTube. In fact, many of them would probably try YouTube before coming to Wikia, if video content was what they required.

Additionally, will video content be hosted by Wikia's servers or will it be linked in through YouTube? If it was linked in through YouTube, the end screen slate shows more videos which the reader could click on and end up being led away from the wiki -- which is not our goal.