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Featured content
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To edit the Featured Video page, see here.

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 are encouraged to!) edit videos from any month within the current year.

Instructions

Getting started

Choose a video

Pick a relevant YouTube video. If you want advice on what to pick, people are always eager to give suggestions on our Discord server.

Embedding a YouTube video in Weezerpedia

Weezerpedia has built-in syntax to embed YouTube videos, and it looks like this:

<youtube>YouTube ID #</youtube>

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):

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Example on Weezerpedia

<youtube>uVYS-xo6mLw</youtube>

Gives you:

Choose a month

Check out the table on the Weezerpedia:Featured video page, and find a month that isn't complete yet. Category:Incomplete featured content lists all featured content pages that need editing.

Let's say you select March 2023, for example.

What you'll find on an "incomplete" featured page

Prior to being edited by users, featured content pages are all created by site admin at the beginning of the calendar year and left "incomplete." Looks like this:

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If you open up a page like this to edit it, you'll see:

{{Template:Featured page header|year=2023|month=March|pagetype=video|edited=}}
<onlyinclude><includeonly>{{Weezerpedia:Featured video February 2023}}</onlyinclude></includeonly>

Looks kinda confusing and strange! Don't worry. All you need to do is...

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!

Sticking with our example above, we'd navigate to Weezerpedia:Featured video February 2023, hit edit, and copy everything there. We'd then dash back to the March 2023 page, and replace all the content there with the wikitext on our clipboard.

Update the featured page header

Continuing with March/February 2023 as our examples, our page will now look like this:

<noinclude>{{Template:Featured page header|year=2023|month=February|pagetype=video|edited=yes}}</noinclude>
{{Featured video code|headline=[[Weezer]] perform ''[[Lullaby for Wayne]]'' live, with altered lyrics, in dedication to [[Pat Finn]] ; [[April 29]], [[1993]]|youtubeid=<youtube>-g0xpSkApHo</youtube>}}

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:

{{Template:Featured page header|year=2023|month=March|pagetype=video|edited=yes}}

Change the "headline"

Our page will now look like this:

<noinclude>{{Template:Featured page header|year=2023|month=March|pagetype=video|edited=yes}}</noinclude>
{{Featured video code|headline=[[Weezer]] perform ''[[Lullaby for Wayne]]'' live, with altered lyrics, in dedication to [[Pat Finn]] ; [[April 29]], [[1993]]|youtubeid=<youtube>-g0xpSkApHo</youtube>}}

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 first "parameter" of this template to edit the headline. Everything between the equals sign and the next straight bracket character you see (|) will display as your headline.

{{Featured video code|headline=[[Weezer]] perform ''[[Lullaby for Wayne]]'' live, with altered lyrics, in dedication to [[Pat Finn]] ; [[April 29]], [[1993]]|youtubeid=<youtube>-g0xpSkApHo</youtube>}}

Using the above video as an example, we could enter the following:

{{Featured video code|headline=[[Weezer]] performing "[[Why Bother]]" live [[Weezer concert: 12/22/2005|in Tokyo, Japan]] with [[Brian Bell]] on lead vocals; [[December 22]], [[2005]]|youtubeid=<youtube>-g0xpSkApHo</youtube>}}

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 relevant.

Pause to preview

To quote User:Deckra:

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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!

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Everything look okay?

Embed the video (like from before!)

Our page will now look like this:

<noinclude>{{Template:Featured page header|year=2023|month=March|pagetype=video|edited=yes}}</noinclude>
{{Featured video code|headline=[[Weezer]] performing "[[Why Bother]]" live [[Weezer concert: 12/22/2005|in Tokyo, Japan]] with [[Brian Bell]] on lead vocals; [[December 22]], [[2005]]|youtubeid=<youtube>-g0xpSkApHo</youtube>}}

You can embed your video in the second parameter - the one labeled "youtubeid."

{{Featured video code|headline=[[Weezer]] performing "[[Why Bother]]" live [[Weezer concert: 12/22/2005|in Tokyo, Japan]] with [[Brian Bell]] on lead vocals; [[December 22]], [[2005]]|youtubeid=<youtube>-g0xpSkApHo</youtube>}}

Notice that you need to include the tags <youtube> and </youtube> around the Youtube Video ID number that you're pulling from Youtube. Without those tags, the template won't work.

Updated with our "Why Bother" example, the whole page will look like this:

<noinclude>{{Template:Featured page header|year=2023|month=March|pagetype=video|edited=yes}}</noinclude>
{{Featured video code|healine=[[Weezer]] performing "[[Why Bother]]" live [[Weezer concert: 12/22/2005|in Tokyo, Japan]] with [[Brian Bell]] on lead vocals; [[December 22]], [[2005]]|youtubeid=<youtube>uVYS-xo6mLw</youtube>}}

Preview, save

That's it for the basics! All the other wikitext you see on there you don't even have to worry about. 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!

You can access the current year's featured video list here.

Table editing

Using 2023 as an example, the table should look like this:

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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:

|- this is a divider
| | [[Weezerpedia: Featured video MONTH YEAR|MONTH YEAR]]
| | caption text
| | [youtubeurl Link]
| | user
|-  this is a divider

Filled in with details from our example above:

|-
| |[[Weezerpedia: Featured video March 2023|March 2023]]
| |[[Weezer]] performing "[[Why Bother]]" live [[Weezer concert: 12/22/2005|in Tokyo, Japan]] with [[Brian Bell]] on lead vocals; [[December 22]], [[2005]]
| | [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVYS-xo6mLw Link]
| | ~~~~
|- 

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 ([[Weezerpedia: Featured video March 2023|March 2023]]<nowiki>) create what's called a "piped link." Everything to the left of the bracket character (<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: March 2023.

Preview, save

Here's what the above code (placed in its proper spot in the table wikitext from the above screenshot) will look like:

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Preview your version to make sure it looks okay!

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!

See also