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

[Thomas Morton]

On 18 June 2012 08:00, Tom Morris <tom at tommorris.org> wrote:

>
> On Monday, 18 June 2012 at 02:44, Tobias Oelgarte wrote:
>
> > 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)
>
> {{sofixit}}
>
>
> If all the people in favour of filters had spent their time building them
> rather than arguing about them, we would have had a wide array of different
> solutions, without any politics or drama.
>
> That said, if people want to filter Wikipedia, a client-side solution
> rather than a filtered mirror is preferable. If a filtered mirror were to
> come into existence and become popular, this would mean that people would
> just filter all of main Wikipedia, which would prevent people from editing
> Wikipedia. A client-side solution means they are still looking at
> wikipedia.org just without naughty pics and doesn't interfere with
> editing. It also reduces the need for any servers.


The technical solution is a fairly trivial part of the problem; a
client-side filter could probably be put together in a few days IMO.

The *hard* problem is convincing the "not censored" abusers that it's a
useful feature for our community.

Tom