Topic on Extension talk:YouTube

Is there a way to, using this extension, create a gallery of video thumbnails? (I tried to link to a Wikia page to provide an example of what I want, but the stupid spam filter detected it as spam.)

Try not add https://

Okay, let's see: http://vsrecommendedgames.fandom.com/wiki/Amiga#Videos

It uses <gallery> tag and does not need any extensions.

I just made some here special:permalink/3211980

Well, you did it with video files from the Commons. What I had in mind, as in my example, is a gallery of embedded YouTube videos. And this, I can't get to work.

You simply copy the URL then post it in Special:Videos, where after the video is put on the wiki, you type in the name of the video and put it in the gallery.

@Commuter3,

I am looking for exact same use case as described by @Stormwatch. Can you please clarify your comment above?

1/ Is the page Special:Videos created by this YouTube extension? I dont have this extension and I dont have this special page either. Got a bit confused because @94rain said no extension is needed to achieve this capability.

2/ When you add youtube video link to the Special:Videos, it will not upload the video file to my wiki installation, right? I want video files to stay in youtube and not bloat storage in my wiki. If I am understanding you correctly, you are saying that it will simply assign a name to the youtube video and then I can use that name in the thumbnail? Example above uses File:* format to link thumbnails to vides. If it is just the name on my wiki and not actual file, then you would you chnage code below?

File:Gulenie-MP4.ogv|Baby

3/ Is this all compatible with MW's built feature to link thumbnail to a separate MW page?

File:Gulenie-MP4.ogv|Baby|link=MediaWiki

What I am trying to do is have a thumbnail gallery of videos. Clicking on thumbnails will take me to another MW page. In that MW page, I would have youtube video embedded at top and have some text descirption at the bottom. I dont want video file upload on my wiki. It needs to stay on youtube.

Any help/pointers, greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Only thumbnails? Enter the video link/code, as in i.ytimg.com/vi/[CODE]/[? (mg, hq, sd, maxres][default, 1, 2, 3].jpg

For video-thumbnail links to MW pages, do this:

<gallery>

VideoThumbnail1.png|Caption|link=Random Page

VideoThumbnail2.png|Caption|link=Random Page

VideoThumbnail2.png|Caption|link=Random Page

</gallery>

The images have to be formatted in a file format like png or jpg.

you can download preview of video from youtubethumbnaildownloaderonline.com/?id=t0Q2otsqC4I

also download preview using browser extension from addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/thumbnail-downloader-online-hd/