On Nov 17, 2007 1:08 PM, Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher(a)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?
My solution handles the tags as normal edits, that is, adding a template.
You actually have to do the edit yourself at the moment, after copying
the template text from a dialog box. I meant to automate this, but
since there was little enthusiasm by the community, I put it on the
back burner.
There is also a design issue to be decided. Should tags be
* exclusively category names, as it is now
* normal links to all namespaces (requires typing "category", and can
be followed only through "what links here" from non-category pages)
* exclusively category names with a special prefix (like "Bee" could
become "Category:Tag:Bee")
The third possiblity would separate the tags from our "normal" system.
Is that what we want? I don't know.
The second one is great for image-to-page links (click on the box in
the image and go to a gallery or category), but bad for the other
direction ("what articles have tags "flower" and "bee"?).
Maybe a combination of 1&2 or 2&3 is the answer.
Cheers,
Magnus
