Help:Gadget-ImageAnnotator

The English Wikipedia is running

Version 2.2

of this gadget.

ImageAnnotator is a JavaScript extension of the MediaWiki user interface, allowing users to place comments onto images shown on file description pages, similar to the "photo notes" on Flickr. This works on all image files for which the MediaWiki software displays a preview image on the file description page, i.e., PNG, JPG, GIF, and SVG files.

This is an experimental installation of this feature for evaluation purposes. Users interested in trying out this feature can enable it, for the time being, be adding the line

importScript("MediaWiki:Gadget-ImageAnnotator.js");

to their monobook.js, vector.js, or other skin-specific user script file.

Experimental evaluation installation

If the evaluation is successful, the feature may be turned into a gadget, such that it could be enabled via Special:Preferences→Gadgets, or it could even be enabled by default for everyone, like it is at the Commons. On the other hand, the feature might be removed completely if it isn't deemed appropriate or useful for the English Wikipedia.

At this stage, the feature has been made available such that interested parties can experiment with it and gain experience, in order to facilitate subsequent discussions about whether to use this at all, and if so, how it should be configured.

The current evaluation configuration is rather restrictive:

• The feature is active only in the "File:" namespace, and on user subpages (i.e., "User:Foo/subpage").
• Only autoconfirmed users may add/modify/remove image annotations.
• Inline display of annotations on thumbnails in articles is done only for files that are stored locally here at the English Wikipedia. For files from the Commons, only a little indication icon is shown. (Note that per the first bullet, "articles" is restricted to user subpages for now anyway.)
• There is no "personal sandbox creator" yet, like it exists at the Commons.
• The feature is not yet set up as a gadget; it must be enabled by modifying one's own user script file as described above.
• The interface exists so far only in English.

Note that currently image annotations can be added or modified only at the file description page where the file actually resides. For files from the Commons, you can view the annotations here at the local file description page (e.g., File:Spelterini Blüemlisalp.jpg), but they can be edited only at the Commons. For files that actually are stored here at the English Wikipedia, you can add/modify/remove image annotations at the file description page.

Inline-displays of image annotations are just views, to edit the notes, visit the file description page.

Documentation

For further documentation, please see Help:Gadget-ImageAnnotator at the Commons.

Problems?

The main developer of this feature is User:Lupo. If you experience any bugs or other problems, or have suggestions for improvements, please leave a note on Help talk:Gadget-ImageAnnotator.