On 7/2/07, Angela beesley@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/1/07, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
On 01/07/07, Angela beesley@gmail.com wrote:
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...
There's also a bit of a performance barrier right now. We had to turn off Special:TaggedImages for performance reasons yesterday, so it will need some work if it's going to be used on Wikimedia.
That's surprising. I was about to hack my own version when I read about the wikia extension, thinking "oh, great, it's done already".
I'll probably take a shot at it later today. I envision adding tags and their coordinates in a template that wraps the data into invisible divs. JavaScript then parses these tags and displays the boxes. Categories generated by the template are used to find images with these tags. Visual creation of boxes can come later :-)
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
The only decision to make is probably this: Should this use "normal" categories (e.g., generate [[Category:Han Solo]] on the death star image), or special ones (e.g., [[Category:Imagebox - Han Solo]])? Or should it link to a gallery page instead (e.g., [[Han Solo]])? Or both?
Magnus