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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
