On 15 May 2014 23:20, Pete Forsyth <peteforsyth(a)gmail.com> wrote:
A final detail, directed mainly to Wil (and anybody
interested in the Board
resolution that's been discussed): I don't think it's been mentioned that
the directive to develop an image suppression feature was rescinded a year
later:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Personal_image_hiding_featu…
The most important thing to remember about tihe image filter - and its
enabling resolution, the "principle of least surprise" - is that this
was such a *stupendously* bad idea that it very nearly led to the
second hostile fork of a Wikimedia project. Thus, anyone citing the
POLS without noting this is being disingenous at absolute best. (Look
back through this thread. I see one aspirant to steward.)
- d.