User talk:Mighty No. 9

Re: Establishing a Media Policy/Guidelines for BioShock
It looks like both Willbachbakal and I have not been very active recently, but I'll try to answer your questions as best I can.

Regarding a video policy, so far we have not seen the need to make one. Our users do not upload many videos, and thus videos do not make up a significant portion of our content. The closest thing we have to a video policy would be our general BioShock Wiki:Content Policy.

As for suggested imrovements, as far as I know neither Will nor I have used your LVS tool yet. I didn't know it existed until I saw your message on Will's talk page. However, I can give a few suggestions just from my explorations of it this evening.


 * 1) Video file page links - The Special:LicensedVideoSwap page does not include any links to the actual file pages of the videos it lists. This makes it more of a hassle for the admins to find detailed information about the video, such as original uploader, date of upload, etc.
 * 2) Match making algorithm - It looks like the algorithm used to find matches uses only the name of the video, not the content. For instance, the LVS thought a review by IGN was a good match for a user created review. For what it does, your LVS is very good, and I definitely understand if a more complicated video content analysis algorithm is beyond Wikia's budget/time constraints.
 * 3) Suggestions from equivalent content providers - I noticed on the LVS page that we have several videos directly from the IGN or Irrational Games YouTube channels, and the suggested replacements were the exact same video from the IGN website. Obviously, IGN and Irrational Games (developer of the games we document) do not need to worry about take down notices on their YouTube channels, so there is no need for us to replace those videos. If possible, it would be nice if the LVS excluded cases like that. For instance, you could add an option for the admins of a wiki to whitelist certain YouTube video channels to narrow down the LVS's suggested replacements.
 * 4) Suggested videos with date of birth restrictions - The BioShock Wiki does not have an age limit restriction, because the content we document is from a game that is rated for ages 18+. We assume that our readers are already above that age limit, and this is demonstrated by the occasionally graphic images in our articles. Thus we prefer not to include videos that have an age limit splash page, since this would just annoy our older contributors/visitors.

~Gardimuer   { ʈalk } 04:13, February 6, 2014 (UTC)