User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/Fandom is upgrading to a modern version of MediaWiki/@comment-36009152-20190708161519/@comment-24006128-20190708165317

It will be much quicker than you assume :)

I have nothing to announce regarding badges.

The modern MediaWiki platform has a bunch of additional features and quality of life improvements. It is also more compatible with extensions, allowing us to facilitate valid extension requests rather than trying to reverse engineer the extension functionality into a custom feature.