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

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

David Gerard, 13/06/2012 23:02:
>> 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.

And still you had reactions like this: 
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2006-April/044011.html 
(notice the other big threads in the same month about images...).

Nemo