Hello! Welcome to our first community project. This is going to be the first of many long-running events which I'll be pinning to the top of Help and Support. Anyone is welcome to join these and help out the development of the wiki!
Background
On February 3rd, we performed a full site transfer from Wikia to our new host. We were able to transfer all of the pages and images, but one thing was lost: the videos. In case you don't know, Wikia runs off a heavily modified version of MediaWiki v1.19. Over the years they modified their site's code which means some features are incompatible with MediaWiki v1.31. One of these is the ability to "upload" Youtube videos to the site and embed them in article galleries and thumbnails. This is not possible on MediaWiki.
How You Can Help
If you browse Category:Pages_with_broken_file_links, you can see a full list of pages with these broken videos. As of the writing of this post, we have about 230 of these pages. Normally I would run a script or a text-replace command that fixes all of these pages, but that is not an option here. So we need your help!
- Visit Category:Pages_with_broken_file_links and pick a random page from the list. Preferably, not the first one because someone else may be working on that.
- Find broken links in the page. If you see the name of a file in an article but there is no file extension, then it is a video.
- Search the file's name on Youtube and see if you can locate the original video. Often, it will have the exact same name as you see on the wiki.
- Once you find the video, you can do one of two things:
- Copy the video's ID and add an embedded youtube video to the page with
<youtube>jNQXAC9IVRw</youtube>.
- Better option: Take screenshots of the video and add them to the page, or record a gif of the video.
The reason we prefer option #2 is because it is more permanent. When you upload images and GIFs to the wiki, they are stored on our servers so we can back them up or transfer them to other sites. If you do option #1, if the video is taken down then the link on the article will become broken. If possible, always upload static images and GIFs! GifRun is a pretty good tool for making GIFs without watermarks.
If you can't find the video because it was taken down or made private, then don't worry. You can often find another one because every section on this wiki (we hope) has a description of where you can find the scene. And if you still can't find that scene, you can post below and someone can help you work something out.
| Posted by PukupukuDragon (administrator) on 9 February 2019 at 16:54. |
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