Discovery of annotations
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	• Prtksxna
	Nov 22 2016, 3:57 PM

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Reading an article about the lunar eclipse, Michelle finds an interesting annotation about the "Parrot crater". She quickly finds the relevant article about the crater she didn't know before.

Some of these can work together, some cant. Also some are more suitable for Wikipedias than Commons.

WARNING: The table below is not really a table, just saving vertical space

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Obtrusiveness
Permanence of change in page

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Readers don't randomly hover on images and need a more obvious way to discover annotations
Editors won't mind information coming from a different wiki (Commons) to be displayed in their articles, and possibly change some formatting

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Status	Assigned	Task
Declined	MarkTraceur	T144302 Release FileAnnotations on the Beta Cluster
Open	None	T151327 Explore designs for FileAnnotations
Declined	None	T151335 Discovery of annotations

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• Prtksxna created this task.Nov 22 2016, 3:57 PM

• Prtksxna mentioned this in T151327: Explore designs for FileAnnotations.

• Prtksxna updated the task description. (Show Details)Nov 23 2016, 2:20 AM

Idea - Text links in an article or the file description should be able to show annotations.

MarkTraceur triaged this task as Medium priority.Nov 28 2016, 5:21 PM

MarkTraceur moved this task from Untriaged to Next up on the Multimedia board.

MarkTraceur moved this task from Next up to Triaged on the Multimedia board.Nov 28 2016, 5:25 PM

So, 7 is kind of our status quo (with the gadget), and we also have 1 and 2 working in the current master (with 2 augmented to wait for scroll). 3 looks like an emulation of ImageMaps, so that could be a familiar workflow for people. I think 4 would get unwieldy if there were too many annotations on an image, but it might be useful for videos. 5 will have people having MediaWikiIsNotFacebook seizures, and more helpfully, the icon may be confusing in some contexts. I'm not sure 6 would be immediately clear, but after a while people would get used to it. 8 is a cool idea (I can't remember the last time anyone used GuidedTour), and 9 could work well enough also (but it seems like just a variation on 3).

• Prtksxna mentioned this in T154744: FileAnnotations prototype 1: Experiment with images and text in the annotation list below the image.Jan 6 2017, 9:55 AM

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• Ramsey-WMF changed the task status from Open to Stalled.Nov 17 2017, 5:14 PM

• Ramsey-WMF lowered the priority of this task from Medium to Lowest.

• Ramsey-WMF added a project: SDC General.

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• Ramsey-WMF removed a project: Wikidata.Nov 17 2017, 5:19 PM

• Ramsey-WMF moved this task from Backlog to Unfinished previous work on the SDC General board.Nov 17 2017, 5:22 PM

• Ramsey-WMF moved this task from Triaged to Prototyping on the Multimedia board.Nov 24 2017, 8:34 PM

• Prtksxna removed • Prtksxna as the assignee of this task.Jan 3 2018, 4:40 AM

Since the 2016/2017 FileAnnotations prototype work is now quite outdated and both Wikidata and Commons have new features and design plans (like moving new features to Vue.js on Commons), and the extension is not actively under development, the best thing to do is close these tasks and create new ones when/if there's a team available to pick up development on this feature.

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