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

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Thu Jun 14 17:01:57 UTC 2012


On 14 June 2012 17:22, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:

> Shocking images in [[Nanking Massacre]] are pretty much expected.
> [[People's Republic of China–Japan relations]] not so much. [[Agent
> orange]] is a more boarderline case but these things are never easy as
> [[Wikipedia:LAME#Names]] shows.


Yes, but this is called editorial judgement rather than something that
can be imposed by filtering. (Although the board and staff claim that
editorial judgement they disagree with must just be trolling is how
"principle of least surprise" becomes "we need a filter system".)


- d.



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