On 6/21/07, Stephen Bain
<stephen.bain(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Users place the tags directly onto the image; the
effect is similar to
a HTML image map. They click on a person in the picture, and enter the
name of the person as the tag, and the coordinates are stored. Then
users viewing the photo roll over the tag and see a frame appear over
the image at the coordinates specified.
Wikia has an image tagging feature that sounds a lot like what you're
describing. See
<http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Image:Leiadeathstar.jpg> for an
example.
Each image has a "tag this image" link which lets you click on a part
of the image and add a tag, which is a link to an article. You can
search by tags <http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Special:TaggedImages?q=Han%20Solo>
and there's a log to show who added what
<http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Log/tag>.
It's very much in beta right now, but if anyone would find it a useful
addition to Commons, we're happy to make that available under the GPL.
Hell YEAH :D
Of course, the likelihood of getting it accepted by devs and actually
*enabled* are two more barriers...
I look forward to seeing TaggedImages develop on Wikia.
cheers
Brianna
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