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 <
psychoslave(a)culture-libre.org> 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
<psychoslave(a)culture-libre.org> 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#Imag…
(additions welcome)
quiddity
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