Of tangential interest: http://bayimg.com/ Apparently "completely uncensored". ("We will not remove any pictures that are just immoral or in any way legal to host under Swedish law." - well, still seems like they'll have a lot of removing to do, to me.) They use a tag system - e.g. http://bayimg.com/tag/background . uploading is ultra quick. cheers Brianna user:pfctdayelise -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/ _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l

On 6/21/07, Bryan Tong Minh <bryan.tongminh(a)gmail.com> wrote: The tag system appears to be completely useless, since some images seem to have had every popular tag applied whether it is accurate or no. Hmm.

The tag system appears to be completely useless, since some images seem to have had every popular tag applied whether it is accurate or no. Hmm.

On 6/21/07, Stephen Bain <stephen.bain(a)gmail.com> wrote: Is there a description for non-facebook-users? Or do I have to become a member?

On 21/06/07, Magnus Manske <magnusmanske(a)googlemail.com> wrote: I independently came up with, and sort-of worked out how to build, a system like that one... and then someone said to me, as I was explaining my wonderful idea, "what, you mean like Facebook"? I hadn't used it, but they helpfully showed me... I felt a little silly :-) Basically, you take a photo, you allow people to click somewhere on it and tag that point as being a named person. It can then use this to find all photos with a certain person in, or "name" the person (via mouseover?) when looking at the photo. It has various elegant applications if you want to take it to the next level - the idea I was thinking of was for archival photograph databases, where you could select a little rectangle around the face and tag it. Later, you could ask the system "show me Joe Smith" and have it generate a set of all these headshots to help figure out whether or not he appeared in an unlabelled image... -- - Andrew Gray andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l

Are you guys talking about FotoNotes or what? Because Flickr already does that. It sounds very like FotoNotes. http://www.fotonotes.net/

Probably MW could do it too (there's an API), if someone wrote an extension................................

Don't we already have tagging on Commons called "categories"? Why do we need to reinvent a wheel we already invented?

On 22/06/07, Andrew Gray wrote: I agree. Imagine what Featured Picture Candidates might be like. Or detailed diagrams. cheers Brianna

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.

On 6/21/07, Stephen Bain &lt;stephen.bain(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: 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.

On 01/07/07, Angela &lt;beesley(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Hell YEAH :D Of course, the likelihood of getting it accepted by devs and actually *enabled* are two more barriers...

That would have * zero impact on performance (except a few more categories, which I guess we can handle) * no need to install an extension or change the software * entirely changable/configurable by commons admins through editing template/javascript

Well, it could generate said categories as e.g. (on human.svg) [[Category:Knee|Human.svg (box:10,10,20,20)]] JavaScript could check for these for each image on the page. Might be JS overkill, though.

On 6/21/07, Stephen Bain &lt;stephen.bain(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Wikia has an image tagging feature that sounds a lot like what you're describing.

On Nov 15, 2007 2:48 PM, Angela &lt;beesley(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Nice! One feature that would be nice would be a rollover on the image where a tag is located; that is, a tag becomes visible either when a person rolls over the name of the tag, or rolls over the area of the image that has been tagged, if that makes sense.

Yeah, Magnus' contraption is already usable on commons. It just hasn't had its breakthrough yet. I find the limitation to categories to be a hindrance. I'd prefer arbitrary Wikilinks (or even multiple language links to Wikipedias per tag). This would dramatically increase the number of taggable objects per image and make tagging more attractive IMO.