On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 11:07 PM, Nick Wilson (Quiddity) <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
> 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.
>
>
Banana-checker is a linter that "checks" the validity and quality of our
localisation files.
This file format originally didn't have a name and was just part of
MediaWiki core.
In 2012, a second implementation was created by jQuery.i18n, as part of
Project Milkshake. [1][2]

In 2014, when James worked on creating a Grunt.js-based validator for these
files, we retroactively
named the format "Banana" (in line with the Milkshake theme), and the
validator "Banana-checker".

-- Krinkle

[1] https://github.com/wikimedia/jquery.i18n#readme
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Milkshake
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lint_(software)
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