[Wikimedia-l] Who invoked "principle of least surprise" for the image filter?

[David Gerard]

On 13 June 2012 21:56, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:

> Earliest I have it on a Wikimedia list is from WikiEn-L on 2/11/08 from Ian
> Woollard (written as principle of least surprise), in the context of a
> Muhammad images thread started by Jimbo -- but my logs only go back to the
> summer of 07.


Bingo - and he specifically invoked it to "minimise offence".


> On-wiki, I see it being used in naming convention arguments for years, as
> early as April 2005.


Yeah, that's arguably a user interface issue (with arguments being
somewhat alleviated by a forest of redirects). I see it's been
commonly used around user interface issues in Wikimedia for many
years.


- d.