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

[Tobias Oelgarte]

Am 19.06.2012 01:39, schrieb 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.
No. I don't talk about remote loading. I talk about caching. The server 
hosts the current version itself and only fetches it for an manual 
update. To inform the host that a new version of page exists it could 
listen to the recent changes on the IRC channel. If it would do remote 
loading then you would also accept temporary vandalism which isn't 
desired like remote loading itself isn't desired.