As far as I can tell, allmost all if not all of the videos at https://www.youtube.com/@TheWikimediaFoundation/videos have comments turned off. This includes today's Research Showcase (on which I wanted to comment) and all the other Research Showcases going back years, all of the recent WMF Board of Trustees candidates' statements, several technical videos from the last three months alone, and hundreds of others from the past year. On the other hand, there is absolutely no protection on the Commons video file talk pages to which most of these YouTube videos are mirrored, but there are never any links from the YouTube videos' descriptions to the Commons media talk pages, which would encourage discussion.
Oddly, all of the "Future Audiences" AI-generated shorts content at https://www.youtube.com/@Wikipedia/shorts do have comments enabled, which is sad because they get so few views. Someone please remind me why these are coming from the intentionally obscure WP:DYK article topics instead of the almost certainly viral topics which could be generated from WP:25 which had been promised to be evaluated by the Future Audience team almost a year ago. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/HEGDJ2EYFXJJILN57FJT2DH6NVMDTU2W/ To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
