The Android team uses README.mediawiki but it's just a link[0] to a wiki.
It seemed appropriate to use a wiki for an app called "Wikipedia".

[0]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Wikipedia_Android_app_hacking

On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 7:37 AM, Marcin Cieslak <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2015-11-03, S Page <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I noticed two conventions for the extension of wikitext files in git:
> > .mediawiki and .wiki, e.g. tests/browser/README.mediawiki and
> > extensions/Wikibase/docs/lua.wiki. GitHub will render both kinds as
> > MediaWiki wikitext (of course it only implements a subset); it seems
> > Phabricator doesn't recognize either extension. I think we should be
> > consistent. .mediawiki is more precise (it's not MoinMoin or IkeWiki
> > markup) while .wiki is shorter. Maybe there are other arguments for one
> > extension over the other.
>
> If both "README" and "README.mediawiki" were present I'd tend to think
> that this is some imported piece of software and README is the upstream
> README file and README.mediawiki contains MW-specific bits (like
> import/upstreaming instructions, whatever). Something we might start
> to see in vendor/ eventually.
>
> I avoid extensions for text files without source code at all,
> but maybe because I don't use Windows a lot.
>
> Somehow funny we cannot use our own markup where we need to :)
>
> Saper
>
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