I often worried about that I cannot help out with embedding video. That is because I lives in China, and I cannot view videos on YouTube, whose videos are often taken into wikiHow articles. I thought, “If people can record their own videos and put it on wikiHow, we Chinese people may be able to view them.” So, may I request a new feature on wikiHow that enables people to upload their own videos instead of picking them from some video websites?
Hmm, that would be a pretty good feature!
I agree! There may be complications with that, but I’ve always thought this would be nice if it’s feasible.
Anna
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YouTube embedding has been a pretty good approach for us for a long time now, for a few reasons: it’s fairly easy and manageable for our engineers to maintain (compared to a big native system that would require lots more resources and upkeep), it doesn’t require video creators to license their work in a certain way (because the videos are embedded rather than hosted here), and it encourages neutral video adders to add only helpful videos (rather than being motivated by any kind of bias in trying to add their own videos). It generally serves us and the readers well… but I do understand it’s more a bummer from your shoes where you can’t access it!
I can defintely let our product manager and engineers know this is something you’d be interested in; I can’t claim it’s an area likely to get new features in the short term, since the current system works well for the majority of uses and users… but you never know what’ll happen in the long run! Sometimes the coolest new tools come out of suggestions like this, even years down the line, so it’s good to hear the idea
