On 13 June 2012 21:56, Nathan <[email protected]> wrote: > Earliest I have it on a Wikimedia list is from WikiEn-L on 2/11/08 from Ian > Woollard (written as principle of least surprise), in the context of a > Muhammad images thread started by Jimbo -- but my logs only go back to the > summer of 07.
Bingo - and he specifically invoked it to "minimise offence". > On-wiki, I see it being used in naming convention arguments for years, as > early as April 2005. Yeah, that's arguably a user interface issue (with arguments being somewhat alleviated by a forest of redirects). I see it's been commonly used around user interface issues in Wikimedia for many years. - d. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
