Nick Wilson (Quiddity) wrote: >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.
"Module:Bananas" on the English Wikipedia is slightly older: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Bananas>. Both appear to be named after the example in the reference manual (August 2012): <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?diff=572334&oldid=568270>. mathieu stumpf guntz wrote: >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. We could switch to Module:🍆 or Module:🍑. :-) >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). Using CamelCase for module names may be specific to particular wikis. The English Wikipedia doesn't seem to do this as much: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/Module:>. MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
