Forum - Problem pages

On Wikia, it's possible to "upload" videos to the site by specifying a Youtube URL. This makes it easy to embed videos in pages but it's a really terrible system in practice. It's incompatible with other sites running off MediaWiki and if the videos are taken down on Youtube, it breaks the pages. You can see a full list of all the broken video links at Category:Pages_with_broken_file_links.

The best solution is to find the original videos, take screencaps/GIFs of them and upload them as a gallery. This is a permanent solution and can be moved across wikis or backed up. You can get a hint about the original videos by searching them on Youtube and seeing if you can find one with the exact title.

I understand that is a lot of work, so if you want a less-permanent solution you can find the original video on Youtube and replace the broken links with text like <youtube>EkAJ2-9V7fY</youtube>. This will embed the video into the page and if we later want to switch to another video extension, I can run a script that will convert all of those <youtube>EkAJ2-9V7fY</youtube> to {{#evu:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkAJ2-9V7fY|alignment=right}} or whatever. As long as we get those IDs we can use any extension or system we want.

What about the missing images on the page? I thought we had more back on the Fandom wiki.

I triple-checked the database and I'm 100% positive we have all of the images, minus a few that were uploaded in the final hours of the old site.

If you see a thumbnail or gallery image that doesn't have an image extension, then it's a video that was "uploaded" to Wikia.