User blog comment:TimmyQuivy/On the Importance of Upgrading MediaWiki/@comment-44881971-20200507194051/@comment-24006128-20200507201257

We will. Making fundamental changes to our MediaWiki instance was what created a lot of the past problems we’re untangling now, so our goal is to stay as close to core MediaWiki as possible going forward. But when we do make changes, we’ll contribute those upstream to core MediaWiki. Our engineering leaders are already working with engineering leaders at the Wikimedia Foundation to make sure we’re communicating and keeping one another informed about what we’re each working on, the problems we’re solving, and how we can work together to make MediaWiki an even better platform for everyone who uses it.