Angela announced that Wikia has released
http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/ImageTagging/
demo:
http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/Image:Sydney_for_image_tagging_demo.jpg
Magnus has a somewhat similar thing via Javascript
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:ImageBoxes.js .
I find Magnus' more intuitive in that you mouseover the image to see
the boxes, rather than mousing over the names of the annotations.
But they are both a bit problematic in that they don't record the edit
action in any standard way. You don't know who added or removed any
annotation, there's no history, no ability to revert. If someone added
an offensive tag to many images there'd be no way to even find out
which images they tagged - would there?
cheers,
Brianna
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