Embedding a video that is hosted on the internet in a wiki page is easy.

First, go to the site where the video is hosted. Most hosting sites, like YouTube, provide the html code required to embed the video on the page where the video is displayed. Copy this code to your clipboard.

Next, you'll need to paste this code into your wiki page in an html block, like this:

.html
<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/NoICzQpVCeA&hl=en">
</param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/NoICzQpVCeA&hl=en" 
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>
.html

Which will display like this:

Why the box with the red X to the left of the embedded video?

contributed by Jeff Franchetti on Jul 17 7:16am

The Youtube video code produces two windows in some browsers. This is a bug that we have in our queue to fix.

contributed by Lyssa Kaehler on Jul 17 10:39am