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How to Embed a Video on wikiHow
Two Methods:Using Any EditorUsing the Guided Editor
Here is how you can add any internet video from YouTube 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.
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EditSteps
EditMethod 1 of 2: Using Any Editor
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1Look on the menu bar above any wikiHow article. Under "Edit," click on "Embed Video."- Alternatively, open the article for editing in Guided Editor and embed it that way (see the method below).
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2View the videos offered. Click on the tabs to see videos from different providers. If the selection is poor, you may want to enter more general search terms at the top and hit "Search." Select the single highest quality, instructional video. Read the wikiHow video curation guidelines for details on what exactly we are looking for. Press "Embed It!" -
3Add a one-sentence description of the video. This is optional, but helpful, especially if the video differs from the text. Then click "Finish." -
4Check your article to make sure that the video has been embedded properly and the description added below it. -
5Improve the text of the article with information you learned from the video (optional, but helpful).
EditMethod 2 of 2: Using the Guided Editor
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1Click the "Edit" link on a currently written article. -
2Scroll down until you see the Video section. It should be right below the Steps section, but above the Tips section of your article. -
3Click the "Change or Add Video" button. -
4Look through the videos. Click on the various tabs at the top (Youtube, Howcast, etc.) to see more videos from those sites. Watch the videos all the way through to make sure that they match your article. Read the wikiHow video curation guidelines for details on what exactly we are looking for. When you find a good choice, press "Embed It!" -
5Add a description of the video (optional). It can be simple and short. If you prefer, just leave it blank. Then click the "Finish" button.- Your video will be embedded and the updated article will be published with the edit description "Adding video via Video Adder tool".
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6Check to make sure that the video was embedded correctly. If it looks similar to the above image, you've successfully added a video to your wikiHow article!Ad
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EditTips
- If you've found a video directly on the YouTube site and would like to embed the exact video to the article, copy the exact title or permalink (the code of numbers and letters) from the video's URL (from the Share button on video page underneath the Share this Video area, the one that looks like it's been shortened by a URL shortener) on YouTube, and paste this address into the search bar on the Embed Video page/area search box containing the article title by default. You'll have only this video to choose from in the search bar in the Video Adding tool/Embed Video link.
- 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 not to delete the pipe (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 the pipe back 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.
- 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 would be essentially impossible for wikiHow editors to determine if a YouTube video is or is not a copyright violations and wikiHow editors should not be expected to police copyright violations 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 immediately becomes inaccessible from wikiHow (which is good).
EditWarnings
- You'll never be able to upload a video that has the user permissions assigned to that video set to "unsharable". There are reasons why individuals choose not to share videos, so they make them "unsharable" and, thereby, non-embeddable.
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