Board Thread:New Features/@comment-26522807-20160208225359/@comment-1251315-20160225195031

Ciencia Al Poder wrote: Well, if you were also editing a wiki with a recent MediaWiki version, you'll know why we'd like to have the new features added to MediaWiki, not only usability ones, but also new API features and scripting features. Granted, if you run a piece of software and never bother to update it nor know what new features are added to the latest releases, you may think nothing has evolved, but that's a skewed perception I've edited on MediaWiki wiki's for a long time, but I've never upgraded any externally hosted wiki's on the basis of "new features" and despite your assumptions, I keep up to date with what changes in newer MW versions. You seem to fail to understand how Wikia works and that it's using such a heavily modded version of MW that it cannot be upgraded without a lot of time, preparation and downtime, all of which Wikia isn't planning to do.

If you really really think they should upgrade, then let them know at the contact link Tupka posted at the beginning of the thread. Or you could look at becoming a Wikia Staff member (by applying to them as a job) and then work on making the code compatible for a newer version.