Template talk:VideoGallery

Lift Thumbnail Limit
Back when we're implementing this template, we decided to limit the number of thumbnails to 3 because of the crappy Flash plugin that caused slowdowns in pages with various videos (like Xenoblade Chronicles). From a quick look, a huge part of our wiki have video links hosted on YouTube and currently it uses an HTML5 player by default in major browsers (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, the new Microsoft Edge). Said that, I think we should remove the thumbnail limit (especially now that it's becoming common random users reordering the list of videos when adding new content). Thoughts? Jhonn (talk)

I'm OK with lifting it or minimally increasing the limit. We should test out some of the more densely populated pages first. Super Smash Bros. Brawl has 12 separate videos and I'd want to be sure there doesn't need to be some limit still. Kolano (talk) 07:02, 12 September 2015 (CEST)


 * I'll try to find a way to measure the impact this change could take then report back. Do we have more dense pages? Right now I remember only of Xenoblade Chronicles and now that you mentioned, Super Smash Bros. Brawl - Jhonn (talk)

I would like to keep the limit, honestly. There's more than just the limit at stake, but also page composition. Endless rows of videos is just tacky! If the limit should be changed, it should just be increased to 6. - MaJoR (talk) 11:14, 13 September 2015 (CEST)

I think the other goal here was to prevent edits from folks who think the order of videos makes a difference regarding which are displayed. If we maintain the limit, we should probably add a comment along with the template that more clearly explains videos are chosen at random and order does not matter. We probably should also universally add the empty template across pages, so the mechanism for adding videos is more clear (i.e. currently the template only appears where there are videos populated). Kolano (talk) 19:43, 13 September 2015 (CEST)

Square Bracket Handling
YouTube videos seem to be prone to use square brackets in their titles. These seem to cause breakages when used in the captions here. We either need to account for that internally, or document how to escape them. Kolano (talk) 20:15, 22 January 2016 (CET)
 * Sounds critical, could you share an example? I would like to apply at least a "band-aid" here until I can finish the RFC of the video templates... - Jhonn (talk) 02:33, 23 January 2016 (CET)