User blog comment:KyleH/Summer 2009 Update/@comment-265264-20090824192147

Tedjuh10: work on those features hasn't completely stopped. While it is unlikely that we'll be porting points specifically over to the rest of Wikia, we are working to identify the features that are most effective at helping to build strong communities, and port them over. Blog articles are the first of these features.

Joeyaa: Lucene Search is separate from the MediaWiki upgrade (MediaWiki has supported it for a while), but we expect it soon--probably early September.