User blog comment:TOR/MediaWiki Upgrade/@comment-10637-20120612170952/@comment-1613840-20120612174524

HI Scott, Thanks for your thoughts - the upgrade includes performance based improvements - which are important to make all of Wikia (including the new unique features) work better and faster. There are also smaller tools listed here that we likely wouldn't have had the time to build internally, which we feel are beneficial to the community as a whole, that we like to integrate into the site. Being able to share code with the whole MediaWiki community is important to us, and we will likely continue to update as new versions are released.