User blog:Belle pullman/Videos - and lots of them!

Hey Everyone!

I've spent the past couple of days blitzing through the "Videos" category - well, I started with the "Uncategorised files" category and added all the videos in there to the "Videos" category, then moved them into categories per production. I've then gone through and deleted all the duplicates, all the broken links, and changed filenames to make more sense. There were more than 500 videos there before I got to deleting duplicates and dead links.

Understand how the wiki works - it does not copy the video material onto the site, it just links to the source. This means that video links can break easily if the source is removed or its privacy changes, so they're high maintenance. But worth it.

In future I'd love to not have to do this all again, so please follow these guidelines with videos:


 * Check that you're not duplicating an existing video
 * Use a descriptive filename - similar to photos, scene/production/year - DO NOT PLEASE FOR SANITY'S SAKE start with "Cats"! We know this is a clip related to Cats!  That doesn't need to be said! Also keep it short, cut "The" from the name - "Moments of Happiness" not "The Moments of Happiness".
 * Add a category - any production with more than 3-4 videos has its own category so far, but if the category you need is missing, make it. Or just add "Videos" if it's not going to need a category of its own.

Finally, we have all this material, and a lot of it is not actually used on articles! So please do link videos (unless they need the file name changing! Do that first!) and make use of them as well as we link photos.

Legal Notice: Bootleg recordings ARE illegal, copyright infringement, and none of us would ever make, sell, or trade illegal material RIGHT?! However material anonymously uploaded to other websites is not our responsibility, and we will link it where relevant to our discussions - it would be unrealistic to pretend it doesn't exist.