User blog:HeroGaming/HERO's Video Policy Ideas.



So everyone here is my idea for video and how it could be run. This setup took into account a lot of the concerns of others on the wiki. I basically said I think there are certain things that are important to the wiki and there are certain things I think look good and then mixed them with all the objections that I had.

What it does: Allows people to upload videos to the wiki, keeps nice thumbnails on videos, promotes our wiki, promotes the youtuber far more than posting there own videos alone would. So basically it help our wiki grow and helps the video makers grow faster than they ever could have alone.

I am going to list some objections later and explain how this satisfies those for the people who it was important to.

First I would like to say that I truly do care for the wiki more than anyone else here. This has led to me being over protective and very one sided in the past. I understand my flaws so I would like constructive feedback on this idea. If you don't like something about it please tell me how we can improve it instead of telling me I am wrong. If you like the idea and think it's a good idea speak up.

Ok one of the biggest issues is that a few vocal people want to be able to upload their videos. Less than 50 people I would say. This has become a focal point in the discussion for video. What I propose is we let them upload their videos and I am gonna show you how. First I will tell you the huge problems we had with old video so you can understand how just letting anyone upload isn't the best way to handle things. In the past anyone could upload a video. What happened is since the policy allowed for that we had endless uploads of videos on the wiki. We had 3x more videos on the wiki than we had articles. Youtubers who wanted to grow there channel spammed the pages and removed each others video endlessly. Finally the last bcrat decided that videos would be banned from the wiki. I stepped in and said I have a gaming channel with a pretty big following how about I produce really good quality videos for the wiki while promoting the wiki to help us grow. I also offered to manage other videos that got uploaded rather than just ban video all together. He decided to test it out. It was a huge success. It helped the wiki grow because I was directing traffic here and made our articles more professional with less spam. As time went on youtubers stopped submitting videos to me. They either moved on to other games or didn't know how to or didn't know the policy. The issue of not doing a good job of making submissions easy was my fault. So long story short is the list grew smaller and less open based on the requirements we had.

So where does this leave us now? Well we have people who want to upload there vids but aren't very good at producing quick educational content. We have a dozen or so channels who produce content that is good but not all of it has our core goals of helping the wiki grow and keeping things clean. So basically I have thought that I can help this situation again. It is going to take some humbling from me but I think i can do it.

What I propose is that there be a submissions page. Where people can link there videos or provide download links to there videos. What I would like to do Is completely rework video on the site. Including most of my videos as well. I would like to have people be able to submit there videos to upload through my youtube channel. now before you start to think that this has ulterior motives let me explain.

My issues are thumbnails, promotion of the wiki, good intros outros, and quality content. What are others issues? Others not being able to upload there videos to the wiki and that's about all. So with this I think I can help those people more than they asked for in the first place.

I present my first test. It is very rough and made in under an hour and I only had one submission to work with but it can do some serious good for the video directors if implemented.


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 * Now it is worth noting that I have changed a lot of my own video style with this setup. It can be refined as well. it is not perfect. So whats different? There were a few complaints about my videos in general and I think they go across the board.


 * Your intros are to long and not very high resolution! I have made the intro about 3 seconds so it is straight into the action. All images are 1080p.

So now that I have address a few issues people had with y videos what is different? Well we have a video make who is not me making the video. I did some quick editing maybe 5 minsutes. I slapped on the intro outro that was already made and added some text to help clarify things for the users.
 * Your outros are waaaaaay to long! They are now nice and short.
 * Your outro always is asking for likes, favorites, and subscribes. That has been removed. I will ad though that Subscribe may return I just haven't made my mind fully up yet. I get that being asked to like and fav a videos all the time can be taxing.
 * Audio is too low! Fixed!

Why is this good for the video producer? well with me promoting someone else and linking to there channel you gain expose to a much larger targeted audiance. I have helped 3+ people gain over 1000 subscribers just with a video or two where I linked there channel. This isn't something you would get from just posting your vid yourself in an article.

So basically when the video is posted through me I can give it a great a thumbnail,(mine are the best in the biz no one argues that, it is simply true) tweek it for the users, add wiki promotion, link back to the directors channel to help them gain hundreds and maybe thousands of subs, expose them to my huge audaince, get there video in the top of youtube search resluts where it normally wouldn't get and it helps with a few other problems. What if the director does do alot of promotion of terrariaonline? what if they can't make thumbnails? what if they don't have skills that help them produce good intros and outros. I can handel it all for them.

How much time would it take for me to do this for all the video articles on the wiki? 2 weeks if I have sumbission. I am open to replacing even good videos that I currently have up with others videos as long as the are good quality and we can get them having the right focus. I will set aside 2 full weeksto complete this task and completly rework video on the wiki, get the submissions worked out with the admisn so they can talk about what vids are best and hel the video makers gain far more traffic than they ever would have gotten by themselfs. I don't care if it is a youtber like terrariahelp or yrimir as long as the videos will promote the wiki. If you are a youtuber I am sure this will help you and I wish I would have ahd the same help when I was starting out.

So to boil it down into bullet points.
 * Promote the youtubers who want to upload video
 * Keep prmotoing the wiki
 * Have great thumbnails
 * open to anyone we will just tweek the vids to fit the wiki
 * it will take me oughly 2 weeks to do the magority of the vids
 * I have said that I am even willing to repost others vids over my existing good videos for the sake of the community.
 * This wll help the youtubers who participate gain hundreds and thousands of subs.

Don't take that lightly either I did one collab last week with a guy and he gained 1000 susbcribers in 24 hours just from 1 vid. I favortied a video of another youtuber who was jsut taling about him hitting 8k subs and he gained an extra 200 over whathe normally gets. The promotion will help others more that having videos on my channel with ever help me. Terraria is slowing down... the game is dying out. I am ok with helping other people grow there channels before I pick a new horizon. Lets try to work together while we still love this game.