On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 11:07 PM, Nick Wilson (Quiddity) < nwilson@wikimedia.org> wrote:
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.
Banana-checker is a linter that "checks" the validity and quality of our localisation files. This file format originally didn't have a name and was just part of MediaWiki core. In 2012, a second implementation was created by jQuery.i18n, as part of Project Milkshake. [1][2]
In 2014, when James worked on creating a Grunt.js-based validator for these files, we retroactively named the format "Banana" (in line with the Milkshake theme), and the validator "Banana-checker".
-- Krinkle
[1] https://github.com/wikimedia/jquery.i18n#readme [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Milkshake [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lint_(software)