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.
... Here's an example in which the Future Audience's AI-generated shorts algorithm purports to excerpt a scene from a 1906 silent film ("The Witch") but surprise, it's in full color: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2yGegpU3whM
I maintain that if we have to have these AI-generated shorts promotional videos, we need to get them from immediately contemporary content i.e. WP:25 than the system wikipedians set up decades ago for rewarding adding detail to obscure articles at WP:DYK.
On Wed, Sep 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM Anonymous Account anonacct934@gmail.com wrote:
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.
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