On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 10:34 PM, mathieu stumpf guntz <[email protected]> wrote: > > Seriously, what is the fantasy with banana? Where does it come from? >
If you mean the "?modules=banana|phone" in the image, that is (I assume) a reference to a long-lasting meme based on kids using bananas as imaginary phone handsets. See (1969!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAX6YPCwJsM and https://youtu.be/51ZhEjB_KvU , and http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/bananaphone for more recent iterations. If you mean https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Module:Bananas I would guess "banana" was chosen as a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placeholder_name because it's friendly and innocuous, and is not ambiguous as "Example" might be. If you mean https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Banana-checker I don't know the story behind that one! https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Naming_things is hard. > > Otherwise, thank you for sharing this information and links. > Agreed! I've added it to a collection I've been making at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Quiddity/How_does_it_all_work#Images_found_elsewhere (additions welcome) quiddity _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
