On 01/07/07, Angela beesley@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/21/07, Stephen Bain stephen.bain@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