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November 28, 2006
Good article nomineeNot listedFebruary 28, 2007
Good article nomineeListedMarch 20, 2007
Peer review
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April 4, 2007
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August 17, 2008
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August 9, 2009
Good article nominee
Listed
March 19, 2018
Good article reassessment
Delisted
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New source with an estimate for total number of videos, statistics about view counts, categories, etc.edit
Latest comment: 2 months ago4 comments2 people in discussion
YouTube is famously difficult to research, and doesn't typically share basic information about the content it holds. There's a new paper in the Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media that takes aim at these kinds of fundamental questions about the site by generating and analyzing a large random sample: Total number of videos, growth over time, mean/median view/like/comment/subscriber counts, category distribution, etc. The paper is very long, but the conclusion summarizes key findings and there's a table of key statistics in the appendices.
There's also an article in The Atlantic today based on the paper: Lessons From Deep YouTube.
I have a COI, which is why I'm putting it here (and on the history talk page) instead of adding it myself, but it seems like a logical addition to the article.
Oh, and while the journal, which is open access, is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, I'm pretty confident there wouldn't be an issue getting any of the figures uploaded to Commons with a compatible license if requested. Cheers. — Rhododendritestalk \\ 16:00, 26 January 2024 (UTC)Reply
@Bremps: To respond to your comment, yes it is peer reviewed. Maybe it would help if I formulated an {{edit COI}} request rather than hope someone else will dig through the work. :) — Rhododendritestalk \\ 16:50, 7 February 2024 (UTC)Reply
Great! I'll just add in the info if it's peer-reviewed, then. Bremps... 21:44, 7 February 2024 (UTC)Reply
Super. It looks like you accidentally cited an older, already-cited source for it ([1]), though. Also, to be clear, the peer reviewed estimate in the paper is 10 billion based on data from the end of 2022. 14 billion is an updated figure from mid-December 2023. It's reliable, based on the research in the paper (and I think The Atlantic is typically considered reliable for such things), but that figure has not gone through a peer review process. FWIW. — Rhododendritestalk \\ 01:37, 8 February 2024 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 2 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion
The redirect Google YouTube has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 February 9 § Google YouTube until a consensus is reached. Utopes (talk / cont) 09:25, 9 February 2024 (UTC)Reply
IRL versus online
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Latest comment: 30 days ago4 comments2 people in discussion
Propose to split article into: (1) RealLife history & business and (2) online usage structure & content. 3MRB1 (talk) 02:30, 24 March 2024 (UTC)Reply
This article currently has 8 sections. Are you suggesting to collapse it to two? Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 02:46, 24 March 2024 (UTC)Reply
@Barkeep49 it seems to be a logical way of organizing the information in the article, or separating into two articles. not to collapse but to re-layout the hierarchy of presentation. 3MRB1 (talk) 05:53, 24 March 2024 (UTC)Reply
We're always going to have a YouTube article because our readers (millions of them every month) will want it and YouTube obviously passes our criteria for inclusion. Multiple other topics - include 1 or 2 by me - have been spun off of this one. so in that sense sure we can spin off stuff that goes into more detail than a YouTube summary would deserve. But I'm still unclear what impact your proposal would have @3MRB1. Barkeep49 (talk) 14:32, 25 March 2024 (UTC)Reply
Technical issues with YouTube.
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Latest comment: 15 days ago2 comments2 people in discussion
There needs to be a section concerning technical issues with YouTube. It is a known fact that for a long time, people have been having problems posting comments on any YouTube channel. I had contacted them on two separate occasions and they refuse to fix the problem. Nosehair2200 (talk) 04:38, 10 April 2024 (UTC)Reply
These would have to be discussed in reliable secondary sources, not just based on what users say. Masem (t) 04:42, 10 April 2024 (UTC)Reply
Update Google Bought Price, Semi-protected edit request on 21 April 2024
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Change the current price of how much Google bought YouTube for in 2006, to a current 2024 estimate.
`In October 2006, YouTube was purchased by Google for $1.65 billion (equivalent to $2.31 billion in 2023).[10]` Smell of curry (talk) 22:29, 21 April 2024 (UTC)Reply
Not done: This value is automatically calculated by a template which uses the latest available inflation index. The number will update automatically when the 2024 index is released. Jamedeus (talk) 22:43, 21 April 2024 (UTC)Reply