Board Thread:Technical Updates/@comment-24006128-20200409180352/@comment-168424-20200410234846

MisterWoodhouse wrote:

Tomodachidudeball wrote: How is that not simple?

It's building in a core feature set from one software to a completely different one.

You're asking the equivalent of just adding a first-person shooter mode to A Link to the Past.

What MisterWoodhouse is trying to say is that Forum uses the MediaWiki engine and can support wikitext, but its replacement Discussions runs independently of the MediaWiki engine so doesn't inherit wikitext support. Forum is being removed and Discussions will likely never support wikitext completely (if at all) and FANDOM has decided to do less features with integration with MediaWiki.

The reason for moving away from MediaWiki integration is apparently to also remove the concern of dependency on MediaWiki changes and allow easier upgrade of the core MediaWiki engine in the future. The drawback is that extensions to FANDOM can't inherit future MediaWiki features either that might happen with integrated extensions.