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
