Thread:DaNASCAT/@comment-32683377-20170725205844/@comment-27345308-20170725210404

I don't think Wikia plans on updating their MediaWiki version simply because there were so many changes in their codebase and updating will break more things than it will fix. However, Wikia backported a lot of useful features from newer MediaWiki versions (like Special:Diff) to their version of MediaWiki. They also recently started to backport the SemanticScribunto extension.