Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-5014364-20170806022242/@comment-4053809-20170808152243

Hi GoT wiki crew,



Thanks for creating this thread and giving us your feedback.

I wanted to respond to several of the issues raised by The Dragon Demands here in this thread. One thing that’s been mentioned several times is auto-play on the videos. We’ve had auto-play advertisements running across the network for quite some time now. The only thing we prohibit at this time is auto- audio  which is also disabled on the wiki videos. We’ve included a preference to allow community members to turn off the auto-play feature. In the lower right corner of a featured wiki video, click the gear icon which will give you the option to toggle auto-play off and on. Note that this setting lasts for two weeks after which you’ll need to reset it.

Your post also includes feedback on our editorial content and I’ve passed that along to our editorial team. One thing to note, though, is that the audience for our editorial content is really more casual fans of the show not necessarily fans with your depth and breadth of knowledge of the books and series so it makes sense that you’d find some of the content rudimentary. Further, not all of the writers on our editorial staff create content on the wikis thus they may not have active wiki accounts.



Regarding your concerns about the video on http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Ramsay - the video does not show the rape of Sansa. In fact, the video doesn’t mention rape specifically nor does it show the rape scene. We’ve had several people watch it several times and don’t find anything objectionable about the content.

On the topic of community involvement and review of the videos: We tested having communities assist in writing video scripts and it didn’t work very well so we’ve moved on from that idea and are using videos created either in house or from partners. That being said, if you or someone from the Game of Thrones wiki would like to submit scripts for pages that don’t currently have video, we’re open to reviewing them. The scripts should be 2-3 minutes in length and you can submit them via [mailto:community@fandom.com <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:400;text-decoration-line:underline;white-space:pre-wrap;">community@fandom.com ]<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> ATTN: Jen Burton. Outside of that, we have never intended to have communities review videos we create or get from partners before posting them. Our team works hard to meet the demand of relevant content within one day of episode air since that’s when we receive the bulk of our traffic on the topic. (Just as you work hard to get the episode articles up as soon as possible.)

<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Thanks again,

<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Jen