Forum:More videos on articles

This topic is somewhat under discussion on this forum, but I wanted to make a new one for better discussing this particular topic instead of it leeching onto another one.

As the wiki has significantly started to increase quality and perhaps even quantity of images over the last couple years, there hasn't really been a focus on videos. There are many topics on articles that would greatly benefit from video examples or tutorials/walkthroughs that a simple image really cannot do (if a picture tells more than a thousand words, how many does a video tell?), and by now if there is a video it's most likely one that belongs to a YouTuber such as TheSyndicateProject or Ali-A (ew), who typically make videos not very well fit for an encyclopedia as they include channel advertising ("like favorite and subscribe", intros, lots of annotations, watermarks, unneeded thumbnail elements...), speculative/unconfirmed/biased stuff in commentary and other stuff.

I'm proposing more focus on videos, and while they may be more of a pain in the buttocks to create and maintain than images, in some cases they may very well be worth it. Recently I've been uploading some videos usually as simple showcases and "proof" of certain events, such as what using the Pack-a-Punch machine is like, what the differences between GCF on and off are, the jumpscare in Origins et cetera, it's these kinds of videos I'm talking about. What goes in my head is also some other showcase videos such as some footage of a weapon, killstreak rewards or perks in play, some minor yet still helpful videos such as how to complete Black Ops II campaign challenges, you get the drift.

Now I know many people are incapable of recording videos, although this number should be going up, what with the amount of PC users apparently rising (and Nvidia Shadowplay is a perfect tool for recording for anyone with a good enough of a setup), and as far as I know, Xbox One allows you to record gameplay and regular HD capture cards aren't too expensive either. And even if the amount of users who are able and willing isn't great, I would like it if there was some more guidelines towards videos as there is on images, it appears as if videos were almost completely optional on articles yet images are near mandatory because at least I am able and willing to get at least some of those videos. Also, one question too (to go with the other forum); where would these videos be uploaded (on YouTube of course but which channel), so far I have uploaded my videos on my own personal channel as unlisted videos, but would it be better if they went perhaps on the wiki's channel even if only as unlisted?

So, I want your opinions on improving the status of videos on articles and adding more attention to them. 19:24, December 12, 2013 (UTC)