Forum:Commons ImageAnnotator

Lupo did a nice Javascript suite for annotating images over at commons. It does the "Add a note" thing on all the File namespace pages. (For more info, see this help page at commons)

I made a half hearted attempt at installing this puppy and I stumbled along blindly copying stuff per Lupo's instructions. It didn't work but I could have mucked up some step. Before I invest any more time in it, I'd like to know whether it is known that this is a hopeless task.

Has anyone gotten at least the annotation display working?

Being oblivious about wikia plans for image annotation like what Flickr and Facebook folks have, I got curious about what is being done elsewhere with this. Is wikia going to have some standard other thing that does image annotation? 19:52, September 5, 2009 (UTC)

That is a very cool feature. The closest I have seen at wikia is the Help:ImageMap and that uses only the title attribute to generate a tooltip style popup at an image hot-spot. The other significant shortcoming is that image hotspots are not highlighted when your mouse hovers over the image. --najevi 22:45, September 5, 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, I have imagemap many times and did a help page on familypedia for a nifty tool that generates them. No interest whatever in 2 years.  Heck- we have regular users that haven't even bothered to set their Avatar or post a single blog entry.  It's not that they are lazy- they are exceptionally productive.
 * The feature has to be relevant to their goals
 * The feature is not hidden- There is a button always available inviting the user to try it (for this feature, on the File page).
 * The feature has to be easy enough to experiment with that it doesn't take a huge amount of time or impose a huge cognitive load to achieve their goal.
 * Lupo deal achieves this- It is easy to try, and always there inviting users to try. I personally confess I have wanted to strangle him over his narrow interpretations of copyright law on the Commons delete discussion page, but after seeing this thing, it's not so tough anymore to assume good faith with him.


 * Anyhow- I very foolishly didn't realize this thing requires Extension:Gadgets.  18:18, September 6, 2009 (UTC)

See Help:Image tagging for information about a former Wikia extension. --Michaeldsuarez (Talk) (Deeds) 14:56, September 8, 2009 (UTC)

Currently functional with FireFox
It appears that Lupo's gadget works on wikia:
 * Example photo working at Familypedia

I haven't yet gotten IE working with this yet, but it seems to work just fine with FF 3.5.2 after doing a few extra installation steps. I posted some preliminary info at Commons, in case anyone wants to try it out. - 08:59, September 10, 2009 (UTC)