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Use this template to embed videos uploaded to Appropedia, Wikimedia Commons, YouTube or Vimeo.
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|PsP5IJT77fU}}
— Embed a YouTube video by id{{Video|video=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsP5IJT77fU}}
— 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=PsP5IJT77fU
— YouTube URLhttps://vimeo.com/431803145
— Vimeo URLPsP5IJT77fU
— YouTube id431803145
— Vimeo idHouse 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
- 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.
Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Video | video 1 | Video name, URL or id
| String | required |
Title | title 2 | Video title
| String | optional |
Align | align | Alignment of the video
| String | optional |
Description | description | Video description | String | optional |
Keywords | keywords | Comma-separated list of keywords
| String | optional |
Authors | authors | Authors names or usernames on Appropedia (including the 'User:' prefix)
| String | optional |
Date | date | Date when the video was made
| Date | optional |
Location | location | Location where the video was made
| String | optional |
Language | language | Language code of the language of the video
| String | optional |
Licence | license | License under which this video is released
| String | optional |
Annotations | annotations | Annotations to navigate the video
| Content | optional |