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'''''To edit the Featured Video page, see [[Weezerpedia:Featured video|here]]'''''.
'''''To edit the Featured Video page, see [[Weezerpedia:Featured video|here]]'''''.


The Featured Video section of Weezerpedia showcases a [[Weezer]]-related YouTube video, and is changed every 2 to 3 weeks. It pulls its data from a template page that can be changed to display different videos.
The Featured Video section of Weezerpedia showcases a [[Weezer]]-related YouTube video, and is changed every month. It pulls its wikitext from a specific page, i.e. [[Weezerpedia: Featured video March 2023]]. Editors may (and [[Weezerpedia:Make a move|are encouraged to!]]) edit videos from any month within the current year.


==Instructions==
=Instructions=
===1. Choose a video===
==Getting started==
Browse YouTube for an interesting Weezer video! The video must be appropriate for all ages, and '''''it cannot be an officially released Weezer music video'''''. Those are showcased in a [[List of Weezer music videos|different area]] of Weezerpedia.
===Choose a video===
Browse YouTube for an interesting Weezer video! The video must be appropriate for all ages.


===2. Change the video===
====Embedding a YouTube video in Weezerpedia====
Weezerpedia has a built-in template to embed YouTube videos, and it looks like this:<br><br>
Weezerpedia has built-in syntax to embed YouTube videos, and it looks like this:<br><br>
<nowiki><youtube>NameOfFile</youtube></nowiki>
<pre><youtube>YouTube ID #</youtube></pre>


Replace "NameOfFile" with the YouTube file name, not the full url, just the bit at the end.
Replace "YouTube ID #" with the YouTube ID number of the video you want to featured. This can be found at the end of the video's URL (most easily accessed by navigating to the "share" button below a YouTube video):
[[File:Featured video help 3.png|thumb|left|550px]]
{{clear}}


'''Example:'''
 
 
====Example on Weezerpedia====
<pre><nowiki>
<pre><nowiki>
<youtube>lbn1xYN6n3c</youtube>
<youtube>uVYS-xo6mLw</youtube>
</nowiki></pre>
</nowiki></pre>
Gives you:
Gives you:<br>
<youtube>lbn1xYN6n3c</youtube>
<youtube>uVYS-xo6mLw</youtube>


==Copy from a previous month==
The easiest way to feature a video is to update the wikitext from a previous month. You can pull the formatting from a past month, replace a few details, and you will have a readymade page!


===3. Change the "Headline"===
Copy the entirety of this previous month's text (let's say [[Weezerpedia:Featured video February 2023|February 2023]] for example) on the page you want to edit (let's say March 2023).
There is a headline above every featured article, song, video, and image on the [[Main Page]]. For videos, it reads ''Featured Video: SHORT DESCRIPTION''. This needs to be changed if you are changing the featured video.


Click "Edit" on the [[Weezerpedia:Featured video|Featured Video]] page. Look at the second line of the article. It should look like this:
===Update the featured page header===
Continuing with March/February 2023 as our examples, our page will now look like this:
<pre>
{{Template:Featured page header|year=2023|month=February|pagetype=video|edited=yes}}
{{Featured video headline|[[Weezer]] perform ''[[Lullaby for Wayne]]'' live, with altered lyrics, in dedication to [[Pat Finn]] ; [[April 29]], [[1993]]}}
<p align="center"><youtube>-g0xpSkApHo</youtube></p>


<pre>{{Featured video headline|OLD VIDEO DESCRIPTION}}</pre>


Delete the old video description and put your new video description in it's place.


'''''The headline cannot be longer than one line on the Main Page (around 46 characters not counting linking brackets)'''''. It should explain the What, When, and Where of the video. If you don't know all of that information or can't fit it on to one line, put what works. It should be a short and sweet snippet of a sentence. Be sure to ''link to anything that you can''.
{{Featured video links}}
</pre>


Let's use the same video from before as an example:
The "featured page header" template gives this page its basic structure. You only need to update one small piece of it: change the month name to the month of the page you're editing:
<pre>
{{Template:Featured page header|year=2023|month=March|pagetype=video|edited=yes}}
</pre>


<youtube>lbn1xYN6n3c</youtube>
===Change the "Headline"===
Our page will now look like this:
<pre>
{{Template:Featured page header|year=2023|month=March|pagetype=video|edited=yes}}
{{Featured video headline|[[Weezer]] perform ''[[Lullaby for Wayne]]'' live, with altered lyrics, in dedication to [[Pat Finn]] ; [[April 29]], [[1993]]}}
<p align="center"><youtube>-g0xpSkApHo</youtube></p>




A headline could be: "[[Say It Ain't So]]" at [[Warped Tour]], June [[2000]]


===4. Update the video gallery===
{{Featured video links}}
Weezerpedia is intent on keeping very organized records of the content that it features, and it does this for videos through the [[Video gallery:Featured videos|featured video gallery]] page. After placing your video in the Featured Video template, you need to update this gallery page to maintain Weezerpedia's records.
</pre>
There is a headline above every featured article, song, video, and image on the [[Main Page]]. For videos, it reads ''Featured Video: SHORT DESCRIPTION''. This needs to be changed for your new video.
Look to the 2nd line of wikitext to update this:
<pre>
{{Featured video headline|[[Weezer]] perform ''[[Lullaby for Wayne]]'' live, with altered lyrics, in dedication to [[Pat Finn]] ; [[April 29]], [[1993]]}}
</pre>
Using the above video as an example, we could enter the following:
<pre>
{{Featured video headline|[[Weezer]] performing "[[Why Bother]]" live [[Weezer concert: 12/22/2005|in Tokyo, Japan]] with [[Brian Bell]] on lead vocals; [[December 22]], [[2005]]}}
</pre>


Go to [[Video gallery:Featured videos]] and click edit. Next, add new information to the wikitable about the rest of the previous Featured Videos.
The headline should explain the What, When, and Where of the video. If you don't know all of that information, put what works. It should be a short and sweet snippet of a sentence. Be sure to ''link to anything that you can''.


The table works like this:
==Pause to preview==
To quote [[User:Deckra]]:
[[Image:Preview preview preview.png|thumb|left|300px]]<br><br><br><br><br><br>
It's always a good idea to preview your pages as you go. Take a moment to pause and make sure everything is coming out okay so far. There are three buttons at the bottom of your editing box - click the middle one!
[[Image:Preview button.png|thumb|left|300px]]<br><br><br><br><br><br>
Everything look okay?


==Embed the video (like from before!)==
Our page will now look like this:
<pre>
<pre>
|- ''this is a divider''
{{Template:Featured page header|year=2023|month=March|pagetype=video|edited=yes}}
| | ''this displays the text under the '''Title''' section''
{{Featured video headline|[[Weezer]] performing "[[Why Bother]]" live [[Weezer concert: 12/22/2005|in Tokyo, Japan]] with [[Brian Bell]] on lead vocals; [[December 22]], [[2005]]}}
| | ''this displays the text under the '''Link''' section''
<p align="center"><youtube>-g0xpSkApHo</youtube></p>
| | ''this displays the text under the '''Date Featured''' section''
 
|- ''this is another divider''</pre>


'''Add all your info to the top of the table,''' right under the line ''<nowiki>! style="background: #7ad;" |Date featured</nowiki>''.


Using the same video from above and a made up date of [[February 14]], [[1992]], the text would look like:
{{Featured video links}}
</pre>


You can embed your video in the fourth line of wikitext:
<pre>
<pre>
|-
<p align="center"><youtube>-g0xpSkApHo</youtube></p>
| | "[[Say It Ain't So]]" at [[Warped Tour]], June [[2000]]
</pre>
| | [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbn1xYN6n3c Link]
 
| | February 14, 1992
Updated with our "Why Bother" example, the whole page will look like this:
|- </pre>
<pre>
{{Template:Featured page header|year=2023|month=March|pagetype=video|edited=yes}}
{{Featured video headline|[[Weezer]] performing "[[Why Bother]]" live [[Weezer concert: 12/22/2005|in Tokyo, Japan]] with [[Brian Bell]] on lead vocals; [[December 22]], [[2005]]}}
<p align="center"><youtube>uVYS-xo6mLw</youtube></p>
 
 
 
{{Featured video links}}
</pre>
 
==Preview, save==
Thank you for helping Weezerpedia! Weezerpedia can only grow if people like you help edit and contribute to it. Thanks for your effort!
=Extra mile steps=
==Update the featured video list==
Weezerpedia tries to keep organized records of the content that it features, and we currently do this for videos through the a simple chart. If you can update the chart, you'd be helping our site stay tidy!


Make sure that the Title includes [[Help:Links|internal links]] and the link is an [[Help:Links|external link]] with the displayed text of ''Link''.
You can access the current year's featured video list [[Template:Featured video table {{CURRENTYEAR}}|here]].
===Table editing===
Using [[Template:Featured video table 2023|2023]] as an example, the table should look like this:


This will give you a chunk of the table that looks like this:
[[File:Featured video help.png|thumb|left|550px]]
{{clear}}


{| class="wikitable" style="margin:0.5em auto; clear:both; font-size:.9em; text-align:center; width:50%" 
The column names for this table are listed toward the top of the page, in that first batch of code. They are: ''Month'', ''Caption'', ''Video link'', and ''User''. Here's what the code looks like to fill in a new row of the table:
! style="background: #7ad;" |Title 
<pre>
! style="background: #7ad;" |Link 
|- this is a divider
! style="background: #7ad;" |Date featured
| | [[Weezerpedia: Featured video MONTH YEAR|MONTH YEAR]]
| | caption text
| | [youtubeurl Link]
| | user
|-  this is a divider
</pre>
Filled in with details from our example above:
<pre>
|-
|-
| | "[[Say It Ain't So]]" at [[Warped Tour]], June [[2000]]
| |[[Weezerpedia: Featured video March 2023|March 2023]]
| | [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbn1xYN6n3c Link]
| |[[Weezer]] performing "[[Why Bother]]" live [[Weezer concert: 12/22/2005|in Tokyo, Japan]] with [[Brian Bell]] on lead vocals; [[December 22]], [[2005]]
| | February 14, 1992
| | [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVYS-xo6mLw Link]
| | ~~~~
|-  
|-  
|}
</pre>


The four tildes above create a link to your user page, and provide a timestamp of the edit. The repeating of the month and year in the first row (<nowiki>[[Weezerpedia: Featured video March 2023|March 2023]]<nowiki>) create what's called a "piped link." Everything to the left of the bracket character (<nowiki>|</nowiki>) tells the wiki what page you want to link to, and everything to the right of the bracket becomes display text. The example above gives you this: [[Weezerpedia: Featured video March 2023|March 2023]].


===5. Preview the page first===
===Preview, save===
Before you save anything, preview your page by clicking "Show preview." You're saving content that's going to appear on the Main Page, so it better be perfect!
Here's what the above code (placed in its proper spot in the table wikitext from the above screenshot) will look like:
[[File:Featured video help 2.png|thumb|left|550px]]
{{clear}}


Preview your version to make sure it looks okay!


===6. Pat yourself on the back!===
==Pat yourself on the back!==
Thank you for helping Weezerpedia! Weezerpedia can only grow if people like you help edit and contribute to it. Thanks for your effort!  
Thank you for helping Weezerpedia! Weezerpedia can only grow if people like you help edit and contribute to it. Thanks for your effort!  
==See also==
==See also==
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