User blog comment:TimmyQuivy/On the Importance of Upgrading MediaWiki/@comment-24258073-20200509133445/@comment-168424-20200512230741

Lack of updates on the whitelist is just laziness... they don't have to update it, so they don't. As C.Syde65 mentioned, they said they would be expanding it over time, but that time period is so long, we will be using 3D neural uplinks to edit wikis before they do the next update.