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

[Tobias Oelgarte]

Am 18.06.2012 00:40, schrieb Anthony:
> On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Tobias Oelgarte
> <tobias.oelgarte at googlemail.com>  wrote:
>> It didn't even need to be complete fork. A whitelist copy would most likely
>> already be sufficient for your needs. It would automatically update any
>> article on a white list after a quick review (like sighted revision) or even
>> entirely automated for articles or images marked as unproblematic. There
>> would be some programming work (an "confirm update button"), but overall it
>> would be easy to implement and maintain. That way you could easily create a
>> Wiki suited for the needs of a special audience which is quickly updated and
>> expanded to the latest versions. A subset of Wikipedia.
> I don't see how that isn't a fork.  And I don't think it would be easy
> to implement or to maintain.  Citizendium tried to do this without
> even doing the automatic updating part, and they quickly decided that
> it was more trouble than it was worth.
>
> Maybe things have gotten better since then.  Maybe they have gotten
> worse.  I don't know.  Is there even a way to export an article,
> including (recursively) all the templates it depends on?
Every stupid bot could do this. There is no "running out of the box" 
solution at the moment, but the effort to set up something like this 
would be minimal compared to anything else.

I would say that Citizendium failed because they did no automatic 
updating. What i have in mind is delayed mirror with update control. It 
is not meant to be edited by hand. It is a subset of the current content 
selected by the host (one or many users) of the page himself. It is 
essentially a whitelist for Wikipedia that only contains 
selected/checked content. That way a "childrens Wiki" could easily be 
created, by not including any unwanted content, while the effort stays 
minimal. (Not more effort then to create your own book from a list of 
already written articles)