Template:Video

Template documentation

Use this template to embed videos uploaded to Appropedia, Wikimedia Commons, YouTube or Vimeo.

This template also allows you to associate meta data to the videos in order to make them searchable, and categorizes pages into Category:Pages with videos.

Usage

Basic

• {{Video|Growing tomatoes.mp4}} — Embed a video uploaded to Appropedia
• {{Video|The Yakan Native Dance.webm}} — Embed a video uploaded to Wikimedia Commons
• {{Video|431803145}} — Embed a Vimeo video by id
• {{Video|kFqpkV3fF4}} — Embed a YouTube video by id
• {{Video|video=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkFqpkV3fF4}} — Embed a YouTube video by URL (notice that the "video" parameter is required because else the = sign in the YouTube URL will confuse the template)

Parameters

• video — Required! File name, id or URL, for example:
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkFqpkV3fF4 — YouTube URL
  • https://vimeo.com/431803145 — Vimeo URL
  • hkFqpkV3fF4 — YouTube id
  • 431803145 — Vimeo id
  • House wren in JBWR (50171).webm — Name of a file uploaded to Appropedia or to Wikimedia Commons
• 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 code of the language of the video, for example 'es' for Spanish ('en' for English is assumed).
• license — License under which this video is released, for example 'CC-BY-SA-4.0'.
• align — Alignment of the video, for example 'center'.

Example

{{Video
| video = https://vimeo.com/431803145
| align = center
| title = The Walking Fish
| description = A tragicomic short film about ambition, perfection and self-acceptance.
| keywords = ambition, perfection, self-acceptance, fish
| authors = Thessa Meijer
| date = 2020-07-05
| location = Netherlands
| language = es
| license = CC-BY-SA-4.0
| annotations =
* 00:00 Start
* 00:10 Tenth second
* 01:00 Minute mark
}}

See also

• Template:Video/styles.css — Styling for this template
• Template:Video/id — Helper template for getting the video id out of the URL
• 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/url — Helper template for generating the video URL out of the video service and id
• MediaWiki:TemplateVideo.js — JavaScript code run when this template is found

Template data

Use this template to embed videos uploaded to Appropedia, Wikimedia Commons, YouTube or Vimeo.

Template parameters

This template prefers block formatting of parameters.

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Video	video 1	Video name, URL or id Example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R2gvgcdseI	String	required
Title	title 2	Video title Example How to build an igloo	String	optional
Align	align	Alignment of the video Default left Example center	String	optional
Description	description	Video description	String	optional
Keywords	keywords	Comma-separated list of keywords Example solar, garden, recycle	String	optional
Authors	authors	Authors names or usernames on Appropedia (including the 'User:' prefix) Example John Doe, User:Lonny, User:Emilio	String	optional
Date	date	Date when the video was made Example 2020-09-23	Date	optional
Location	location	Location where the video was made Example Buenos Aires, Argentina	String	optional
Language	language	Language code of the language of the video Suggested values en es de fr pt it Default en Example es	String	optional
Licence	license	License under which this video is released Suggested values CC-BY-SA-4.0 CC-BY-SA-3.0 CC-BY-SA-2.0 CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0 CC-BY-NC-SA-2.0 CC-BY-4.0 CC-BY-3.0 CC-BY-2.0 CC0-1.0 Public domain Fair use Copyright Unknown Example CC-BY-SA 4.0	String	optional
Annotations	annotations	Annotations to navigate the video Example 00:00 Start	Content	optional