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:.
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