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ALL POSTSNew Recommended Videos Test on Narutopedia
<p>Hi everyone, I'm Brandon, Sr. Manager of Content Production here at FANDOM.
</p><p>As you probably know, over the last year we have been producing Featured Videos for wiki pages. These are reference and explainer videos that compliment text-based content by delivering information in an entertaining and visually-engaging way for an audience that is increasingly looking for video content online. Featured Videos have also allowed us to remove 30% of the advertisements on every wiki page, and as a result the average page load times on desktop have decreased by 46%. Between that and our growing content offerings, Featured Videos have been a big success on FANDOM and on Narutopedia so far.
</p><p>Starting tomorrow, we will be testing a new alpha feature called Recommended Videos to reach an even wider audience. This is a video module and player on non-Featured Video pages. We will be testing a few different versions with different placements, such as on the left-hand side of the screen or the bottom of the screen. Narutopedia will be used to help test this, with variations of the Recommended Videos module appearing throughout the wiki.
</p><p>Through this test we plan to learn:
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<p>Looks like "RANDOM" is back at it again. Ready to implement yet another, otherwise, useless feature. It is pretty clear that when "RANDOM" says they are testing out something, it means that they are going to do it (at least in my experience). There is no reason to dispute about it because "RANDOM" won't listen. They hear, but don't listen. They'll do what they think is best without consensus to us, the actual wiki editors. It's whatever I guess.
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<p>well, if we can do nothing to stop it, can we do something to better it?
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<p>I'm going to try and stay positive about this, and not reply to you @Brandon Rhea with the same, repetitive frustration:
</p><p>I am aware that we can do nothing to prevent this feature of yours from being implemented into FANDOM (rightfully so, it's not our property, there's really no point fighting it), but CAN WE, as a community who has been active for 10+ years now, refuse to have the test of this new feature of yours take place on Narutopedia?
</p><p>Because if we cannot, then this entire thread is a sham and you are wasting our time...
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<p>@berserker unfortunately, thats also true.
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<p>The test isn't something that can be opted out of. Narutopedia is one of several communities the test is running on so we can gather enough user interaction and engagement data to inform our decision about what our next steps should be in developing this feature. The test will show us what works, what doesn't work, if any changes should be made to functionality, and so forth.
</p><p>That test is scheduled to end next Monday, May 7th, at which point the Recommended Videos test module will be removed. However a new module will eventually return if we decide to move ahead with building this test version into an actual feature.
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so there is nothing we can do just to at least change to our simplest needs?
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<p>Brandon Rhea wrote:
The test isn't something that can be opted out of.
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<p>Then stop wasting our time! People have the right to be upset, so it seems. </p><p>Your conceited notion of "help us help you" isn't fooling anyone, and this thread serves no purpose other than to give false satisfactions to people by making it seem that we had a choice in the matter... </p><p>A mod should just close this thread, there's no point to it anymore... </p>
<p>Then stop wasting our time! People have the right to be upset, so it seems. </p><p>Your conceited notion of "help us help you" isn't fooling anyone, and this thread serves no purpose other than to give false satisfactions to people by making it seem that we had a choice in the matter... </p><p>A mod should just close this thread, there's no point to it anymore... </p>
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<p>BerserkerPhantom wrote:
A mod should just close this thread, there's no point to it anymore...
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<p>I agree. If no one else has a different question they need to ask, I'll close this within 24 hours. Unless another mod deems this thread should be closed now; I'm fine with that too. </p>
<p>I agree. If no one else has a different question they need to ask, I'll close this within 24 hours. Unless another mod deems this thread should be closed now; I'm fine with that too. </p>
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<p>AsianReaper wrote:
I agree. If no one else has a different question they need to ask, I'll close this within 24 hours. Unless another mod deems this thread should be closed now; I'm fine with that too.
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<p>I agree as well. It seems that everything that needed to be said on both accounts has been said, so closing it will be the best idea. I'm quite sure that more opposition will just come and it wouldn't help as it's nothing we can do. </p>
<p>I agree as well. It seems that everything that needed to be said on both accounts has been said, so closing it will be the best idea. I'm quite sure that more opposition will just come and it wouldn't help as it's nothing we can do. </p>
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<p>Agreed all the way that this thread should be closed. In fact, every thread Wikia makes of this nature should just be closed because, as clearly demonstrated by every one of Brandon's posts, our opinion means nothing whatsoever, so these threads are 100% pointless in every possible way.
</p><p>Someone give us some JS/CSS we can all implement into our personal JS files so we can prevent these pointless things from loading (given we cannot opt out, we can just block them from loading) so our experience is left clean and friendly please...
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