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

[Thomas Morton]

On 18 June 2012 12:39, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 18 June 2012 12:29, Tobias Oelgarte <tobias.oelgarte at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I guess Tom misunderstood my comment. I wrote down a simple plan how an
> > external solution could work and how to minimize the effort to maintain
> it.
> > If there is a community (it might overlap with our community) that would
> run
> > such a "filter portal" (or even multiple portals) then it should be even
> > more sufficient as if we would implement filters inside Wikipedia itself.
> > They could really block images and make a child-save zone after their own
> > definition, while we could continue as usual without having the burden to
> > avoid conflicts.
>
>
> The Board acted according to the Harris report, which just said to do
> it on the site itself:
>
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2010_Wikimedia_Study_of_Controversial_Content:_Part_Two
>
> It's still not clear to me (looking over part two or part one) why it
> has to be on the site itself and no post-site solution is acceptable.
> Presumably someone interested can dredge through part one and pick out
> the sentences that back this position as opposed to post-site
> filtering.


Utility; hiding a filter on a lower order site does not make it useful.
Incorporating it into the main site (prefferably client side) makes it the
most accessible for our community.

Tom