Forum:VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION

I have been approached this evening by Taelovesthesharks, a Wikia staff member and category manager of Wikia Gaming, who is looking to test out some new video features. For ease of discussion, I've pasted his message to me below...


 * We are working with a content provider who is providing us with premium content from places such as Machinima. We'd like to run some usage tests to see how these videos perform. We'd like to ask permission to come in and embed some videos and then do some analytics research to see whether the community likes them or hates them. Would this be okay? I and the staff content editors (all gamers) will be handpicking the videos and curating them ourselves to ensure relevancy (we will not be putting in any random montages or trailers or anything like that, and if we can't match relevancy to the specific article page, we won't be embedding anything). Does this sound like something you'd be willing to let us do? We'd be more than happy to share data to let you guys now how successful it is, so you can use that to further build out the wiki. [...] Thanks!

I've given him my permission to go ahead with it, pending the community's opinion here. I think it sounds like a good idea, so I don't see any reason to not permit it, but feel free to comment.

Just on an aside, he also posted, as part of an earlier message to me, a really exciting bit of information...


 * Also, I'll be in touch about a potential giveaway or promotion that we'd love to work with you guys on near [Battlefield 3]'s release

How do people feel about that, sounds exciting! - 00:32, September 23, 2011 (UTC)