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

[Brianna Laugher]

On 01/07/07, 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. 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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