[Commons-l] We may have somewhere to send the exhibitionists

[Angela]

On Jul 1, 2007 9:03 AM, Angela <beesley at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/21/07, Stephen Bain <stephen.bain at 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.

Rather later than I'd hoped, but this is now finally in SVN. It could
be useful for Commons.
http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/ImageTagging/

There's an example here:
<http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/Image:Sydney_for_image_tagging_demo.jpg>

Angela