User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/Fandom is upgrading to a modern version of MediaWiki/@comment-3013425-20190620154146/@comment-25205196-20190620154921

"Our last MediaWiki upgrade was in 2012."

"The solution, then, is that we’ll have to build a new Fandom platform to have an upgraded version of MediaWiki. We’ll create that platform, run it on a modern version of MediaWiki, and then carefully and intelligently add the right custom features"

MediaWiki is Fandom's wiki engine. And it's very old, which means there are things editors simply can't do. Upgrading to a more recent version means we'll be able to get new tools and do some things more easily.