Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-3448772-20121221215858/@comment-4674838-20121223200529

Fandyllic: What Lunarity meant by his post above is that jQuery is not available in a very special case. In the ordinary case where you put a script in your MediaWiki:Wikia.js or MediaWiki:Common.js, there is no problem. But in the special case where you put a script in a MediaWiki page and then include it with verbatim tags, jQuery will not be available. It has to do with the order in which Resource Loader loads things. Resource loader loads jQuery after all wikitext/HTML content of the page has been parsed. If you're using verbatim tags to load a script, that script is in the HTML content of the page and will be parsed before Resource Loader loads jQuery. So basically, jQuery is loaded, it's just loaded too late.