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

[David Gerard]

On 18 June 2012 12:41, Thomas Morton <morton.thomas at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 18 June 2012 12:39, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:


>> 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.


That's not from the Harris report. What was the justification in the report?


- d.