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Use this template to embed videos uploaded to Appropedia, Wikimedia Commons, YouTube or Vimeo, associate meta data to them in order to make them searchable, and put them into Category:Pages with videos.

Usage

Basic

• {{Video|video=Placeholder.mp4}} − Embed a video uploaded to Appropedia
• {{Video|video=The Yakan Native Dance.webm}} − Embed a video uploaded to Wikimedia Commons
• {{Video|video=hkFqpkV3fF4}} − Embed a YouTube video by id
• {{Video|video=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkFqpkV3fF4}} − Embed a YouTube video by URL

Parameters

• video − Required File name, id or URL, for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkFqpkV3fF4, https://vimeo.com/431803145 or simply 'hkFqpkV3fF4' or 431803145
• title − Title of the video, used for search results.
• description − Description of the video content, used for search results.
• keywords − Comma-separated list of keywords, for example "solar, garden, recycle".
• authors − Authors names or usernames on Appropedia (including the 'User:' prefix).
• date − Date when the video was made, for example '2020-09-23'.
• location − Location where the video was made, for example 'Buenos Aires, Argentina'.
• language − Language of the video, for example 'Spanish'. English is assumed.
• license − License under which this video is released, for example "CC-BY-SA 4.0".

Example

{{Video
|video = House wren in JBWR (50171).webm
|title = House wren in JBWR
|description = House wren guards its nest
|keywords = bird, wren, nest
|authors = Rhododendrites
|date = 2020-07-05
|location = Jamaica
|language = English
|license = CC BY 4.0
}}

See also

• Template:Video/id − Helper template for extracting a video id out of the URL
• Template:Video/url − Helper template for generating a video URL out of a video platform and id
• Template:Video/service − Helper template for getting the video service (YouTube, Vimeo, Appropedia or Wikimedia Commons) out of the URL, file name or file id
• Template:Video/annotation − Helper template for displaying the video annotations
• Template:Video/styles.css − Styling
• Widget:YouTube − Widget to embed YouTube videos
• Widget:Vimeo − Widget to embed Vimeo videos

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