Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-6100947-20170329015921/@comment-13301-20170406095236

Reguyla wrote: That's good to know. I would note though that I have a lot of problems with the Special reports in general. They often do not update like they should, they show incorrect information, etc. Unfortunately that isn't a Wikia/Fandom specific thing but a nuance of the Wikimedia software so not a huge amount that can be done without a major overhaul. It would be nice though if Wikia/Fandom could increase the list size of the reports like they did on the WMF projects. Most of the reports over there can go to 5000 rather than 1000 and it's a huge help for the larger projects.

I'm sorry but this is unfair. I'm a MediaWiki volunteer and those problems have nothing to do with MediaWiki. The insights page and tools have been developed by Wikia and only Wikia are using it. Wikia is the ultimate responsible of maintaining it's source code, and unfortunately the vast majority of wikia extensions and code works like this: They spend some time developing it, but once the product is finished, they abandon it. Their own modifications on other parts of the code causes those products to break, and they take months to fix them, and some products are even retired because "they aren't used" (of course, something that's left broken for months is hardly usable).

So please don't blame MediaWiki or WMF about those problems. Wikia is the ultimate responsible of this. Wikia is using MediaWiki 1.19 which was officially released in mid-2012 and was declared obsolete on mid-2015. You can't report bugs to Wikimedia's Phabricator because we're using an obsoleted and unsuported version.