Board Thread:Technical Updates/@comment-22224-20180312221333/@comment-9605025-20180313202434

KockaAdmiralac wrote: ROOTPAGENAME does not exist on Wikia and it didn't exist in vanilla MediaWiki until five years ago, either. If implementing it means changing how BASEPAGENAME works and a lot of templates across Wikia getting by the change, is it really a bug? :P I don't recall Wikia ever announcing that they were going to add ; even less so by changing the behavior of   to not follow vanilla MediaWiki. I also don't understand what you mean by "getting by the change". True, the two give the same output for 1st level subpages, but beyond that the output is different.