How to Embed a Video on wikiHow

Here is how you can add any internet video from YouTube, 5min, or other online video sites. When selecting videos, aim to find the single highest quality, instructional video available. Read the wikiHow video curation guidelines for details.

• If you would like to improve the description, you can edit it by changing the text within the video template. If you decide to get rid of the description entirely, be sure to avoid deleting the pipe. This is the vertical line "|" that follows the video title and separates it from the description. If you do not do so, you will see a {{{1}}} below the video where the description should be. To fix this, just edit and add it back in.
  
  
  
• If you are looking for places to add videos, you might consider looking for videos for the cooking, skateboarding, snowboarding or origami categories. There seem to be a lot of good videos in those categories. In addition, topics like skateboarding which are hard to explain in text are much clearer in video. Please add other ideas to this list!
  • Another good solution would be to go look for video producers you like. For example there are a handful of good skateboard video producers. You can find their videos on their YouTube pages: http://www.youtube.com/user/aronl or http://www.youtube.com/user/Skatexplanation or http://www.youtube.com/user/LearnToSk8now.
  • Another solution is to just look to add videos to any subject you are already interested in.
• Some good videos come in a multi-part series. Unfortunately we really can't easily embed multiple videos on the article page or easily combine these videos into one long video. One way to handle a multi-part series is to link to the later videos on the page in the video description below the video. An example of this is here:
  • http://www.wikihow.com/Massage-Your-Partner
• Copyright issues:
  • 99% of videos on YouTube and other video sites are copyrighted. Unfortunately, we aren't in a position to CC license them. In time, we hope to start encouraging people to upload videos directly to wikiHow that we will CC license.
  • Some of the videos on YouTube are essentially copyright violations created when a YouTube user copies a video from a TV show, movie, DVD, etc. On the other hand, many large media companies release portions of their copyrighted works on YouTube in the hope of gaining more viewers. It will be essentially impossible for wikiHow editors to determine if a YouTube video is or is not a copyvio and wikiHow editors should not be expected to police copyvios on YouTube. Thus, we will need to rely on YouTube's increasingly accurate copyright filtering system to weed out copyvios for us. When YouTube identifies a copyvio, it will become immediately inaccessible from wikiHow which is good.

• How to Add a Video to Your Blog
• How to Send Videos
• Video Curation Guidelines
• How to Patrol Videos on wikiHow