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This gadget is enabled globally for everyone through an inclusion in MediaWiki:Common.js. You need not (and if fact, cannot) enable it in any way; it is already enabled. In case of an insurmountable problem, there's an emergency switch-off that logged-in users can use: just enable at Special:Preferences→Gadgets the gadget for "disabling image annotations". If you feel the need to do that, please also report your problem here.

To see all annotated images, visit Category:Images with annotations.

Documentation on this script is at Help:Gadget-ImageAnnotator.

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	Pending tasks for Gadget-ImageAnnotator.js:	edit this list - add to watchlist - purge
	None of these need to be fixed immediately, but they should be looked at eventually. Provide a way to edit rectangles (allow size changes). Icons instead of rectangles for some notes? (See here and here.) Grouping of notes into layers? (See here.)

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[edit] IE8 blocks

Two people using IE8 have reported that IE8 gets very sluggish in some cases. I'm still investigating this. It's evidently some crazy event handling problem that I cannot track down in a snap; this needs more time. I have therefore reverted back to version 1. I first need to solve this IE8 problem, and I don't know how much time I'll need to do so. Lupo 09:03, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

And scratch that. The problem has been found, a work-around has been found, and I have confirmed that it works. So we're still (or again, after an 11-minute interruption) running version 2.

A big hearty thanks to User:Fran Rogers, who had tracked down the bug and found a fix. Awesome! (I know how difficult it can be to find one's way in code one hasn't written oneself!) Lupo 09:34, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Disabel this gadget for non-loged in users

I stumble upon these annotations from time to time. I have not seen a single one that was useful. I think a lot of non-logged in users don't even want to vandalize they just click on it accidentally and then don't really know how to exit without saving. I would strongly suggest to disable this for non-logged in users or at least make it a tab so people don't accidentally click on it. --Cwbm (commons) (talk) 19:32, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

You might like to look at images in Category:Images with annotations for images with useful annotations. I would guess about 80% of images there have annotations meeting com:ann guidelines. Most of the useless annotations I have seen came from new logged contributors to Commons who upload new images and add information related to the whole image using annotations. --Jarekt (talk) 21:16, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

Because the images with useless annoatations are kept in Category:Images with useless annotations. --Cwbm (commons) (talk) 05:51, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Just have a look at recent notes by not-logged-in users. A few of them are informative, but it seems to me that the most part is garbage. I too proposed in the past to restrict adding/modifying notes through the gadget (i.e. the "easy" way) to logged in users. Perhaps we should wait a bit more, do some math on the logs (i.e. over a couple of months) to compute the sound/noise ratio, and then take a decision. -- IANEZZ  (talk) 10:21, 3 November 2009 (UTC)