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

[geni]

On 13 June 2012 21:30, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was looking over old discussions, and wondered: who originally came
> up with the notion that the "principle of least surprise" should apply
> to educational content? If it existed before Wikimedia, who introduced
> it to the image filter discussion, on what rationale?
>

It (principle of least astonishment) derives from our redirect
guidelines where you are trying to decide between redirecting to an
article and redirecting to a disambiguation page. It also somewhat
related to page naming.

>[Personally I think it's an inanity - an education that doesn't turn
>your head upside down might as well be basket weaving - and it's too
>easily applied to shocking and outrageous concepts that children
>shouldn't be exposed to, like homosexuality or rights for minorities -
>but I could of course be convinced I'm wrong.]

I think you miss the point of a concept. The idea is not that say
[[Marriage]] shouldn't contain information about homosexual marriages,
heterosexual marriages, marriages of convenience or polygamous
marriages but that it probably shouldn't contain photos of marriage
consummation.

[[Nude photography]] on the other hand should have some nudity. but
then it should also be more than 3 paragraphs long.


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geni