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{{update|type=Wikipedia help page|date=August 2011}}

{{this|how to annotate images on their description page|placing images in an article|Wikipedia:Picture tutorial}}

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The English Wikipedia is running

:'''Version 2.23b'''

of this gadget.

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[[MediaWiki:Gadget-ImageAnnotator.js|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, beby adding the line

<sourcesyntaxhighlight lang="javascript">

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

</syntaxhighlight>

</source>

to their [[Special:Mypage/monobook.js|monobook.js]], [[Special:Mypage/vector.js|vector.js]], or other skin-specific user script file.

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*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:Help:Gadget-ImageAnnotator#Trying it out|Commons]]. If you want to experiment, start out by putting "<kbd>&#x7B;&#x7B;subst:ImageWithNotes|img=&#x5B;&#x5B;File:Little Rock pano.jpg|800px&#x5D;&#x5D;&#x7D;&#x7D;</kbd>" (without the quotes) on a subpage in your user space. Once you get the feeling of this, you might consider adding a (sensible!) note on a real image, and then adding a thumbnail to your personal test page.

*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.

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

Edits made through ''ImageAnnotator'' are normal edits to the file description page. They can be reverted, undone, or watched just like any other edit.

== Documentation ==

For further documentation, please see [[commons:Help:Gadget-ImageAnnotator|Help:Gadget-ImageAnnotator]] at the Commons. Also of interest may be the [[commons:Commons:Image annotations|Common's guideline]] about using this feature.

== 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]].

:Note: I have ''not'' yet set up any filters for recent changes to tag image note edits. If anyone wants to do so: the filters at the Commons worked simply by using a regexp match on the (automatic) edit summaries, as defined at [[MediaWiki:ImageAnnotatorEditSummaries]]. Note, however, that the Commons disabled the filter catching all note edits pretty quickly because it matched too many edits. [[User:Lupo|Lupo]] 11:16, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

== See Also ==

{{Commons|Help:Gadget-ImageAnnotator}}

*[[Commons:Help:Gadget-ImageAnnotator]] - same gedget

*[[Commons:Commons:Image annotations]] - commons guide to proper use of Image annotations