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

[Anthony]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Tobias Oelgarte
<tobias.oelgarte at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Am 18.06.2012 14:49, schrieb Anthony:
>> Have you ever tried to do this?  It's not as easy as you are making it
>> sound, at least it wasn't as of a few years ago, because Mediawiki is
>> tightly coupled to the specific database structure it uses.
>
> You don't need to interact with the database of Wikipedia itself. You can
> use the MediaWiki API which is quite stable and enough for this task. I
> don't speak about a complete mirror, i speak about a filtered _view_ for
> Wikipedia. You type in "http://www.mysavewiki.com/Banana" and the server
> delivers the recently approved and cached version of the article from
> Wikipedia if "Banana" is whitelisted.

Are you talking about "remote loading"
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks#Remote_loading)?
 That's a good way to get your IP address banned.