[Commons-l] image annotation extensions

[Oldak Quill]

On 17/11/2007, Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

Sorry if this question is presumptuous, but is it certain that this
tool doesn't violate any patents held by Facebook, Inc.?

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Oldak Quill (oldakquill at gmail.com)