Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-168424-20150910163231/@comment-24473195-20150910173410

Fandyllic wrote: Can you be more specific about incompatibilities? That is a good question, but seems too broad.

Also, I believe the WMF MediaWiki vs Wikia MediaWiki thing may be overstated. From my interpretation, it is more like WMF extensions vs Wikia extensions to base MediaWiki engine, but I'll ask for more detail. Well, the simplest ones are:


 * How they tackle incompatibilities between WMF visual editor and  Wikia visual editor. Most of it is the same, but WMF seems to have updated their parsoid (the software that changes wikitext -> html -> wikitext). How often are they planning to backport the libraries or will they simply fork their own visual editor?


 * Lua/Scribunto incompatibilites -  WMF introduced content handlers for pages (e.g. for json, js, lua), because of these and other changes some newer lua libraries can't be simply copied over to wikia. In some cases wikia doesn't have the underlying core API to support newer libraries.

Some extensions and gadgets are designed differently because of the newer code too. One very powerful extension is the new Extension Graph, which I'm not sure can be supported by wikia, but which would basically make javascript graphs unnecessary.