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@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).
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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@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#Image...
(additions welcome)
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