I personally use it as an example with other fruits like Apple, or some times with Phone or Bing because of the Raffi song *Bananaphone <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bananaphone> *which brings me good memories.
It is also a very useful article name which has articles in many language wikis under the same title (the ones I'm familiar with), en <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana>, es <https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana>, ca <https://ca.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana>, it <https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana>, and some other interesting content, like the disambiguation page on fr <https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana>, or that in german <https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana> it is a state in the Democratic Republic of Congo. On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 9:43 AM mathieu stumpf guntz < [email protected]> wrote: > Ok, thank you everybody for this cast of light. :) > > Maybe this kind of mnem should be documented in some central place, and > maybe reference that in > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker > > The fact that banana is friendly, yeah sure, I'm not aware of any banana > who willingly assaulted someone. The fact that it is innocuous, well, > really, I think that banana is not the less sexually connoted example > one might found. Well, personally I don't really have a problem with > that, although one might argue that for gender parity it would be fair > to also use other examples. > > Now, for the case of Module:Bananas, I think that Module:Fanciful would > be fine in some cases. In others cases like introduction manual, things > like "MyFirstModule" or "UsernameFirstModule" might do the trick. It > also add implicit information that camel case is the usual way to write > module names. Moreover, one might even argue that "UsernameFirstModule" > easily be dynamically generated, creating an awesome custom user > experience which foster engagement of developers and finally make the > world a really wonderful place to live in (hmm). > > ĝis baldaŭ > > Le 08/11/2017 à 08:07, Nick Wilson (Quiddity) a écrit : > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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
