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

[Andreas Kolbe]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Tobias Oelgarte <
tobias.oelgarte at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Am 18.06.2012 16:31, schrieb Thomas Morton:
>
>> We don't have much data on what our readers want; but a not insignificant
>>
> portion of them, at least, are concerned with controversial images
>> (nudity, Mohammed, etc.). I fully advocate finding out what the community
>> thinks; but when I raised this issue before it was snorted at with
>> something along the lines of "the readers aren't the driving force here".
>>
>> *sigh*
>>
>>  I asked for the same thing and got no response as well. We had the
> referendum which had big flaws,[1] but not a single neutral survey directed
> at the readers under the light that our community is most likely biased...
>
> [1] explained in length at http://meta.wikimedia.org/**
> wiki/Talk:Image_filter_**referendum/en<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Image_filter_referendum/en>



That's one point we seem to agree on. I asked the same question a year ago
– why did nobody survey the reading public, or the donors?

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