User blog comment:Rappy 4187/Technical Update: April 27, 2016/@comment-9380534-20160428134412/@comment-24473195-20160428153933

Personally, I think that Wikia should work on AXING more unused (or rarely used) features and Extensions, rather than only fixing these endless bugs. My guess is that wikia probably has more than 150 extensions. Each with their own crazy configuration and each with their own issues. Most of these weren't developed by wikia itself, but merely changed slightly to work here. So probably none of the developers is actually familiar with the some of the code to go and fix it without causing other bugs.

Features they could probably fix:


 * Files being improperly deleted - is probably a cache issue with the servers.
 * The new VisualEditor adding spaces - It might be useful to file this report to the WMF, who may already have fixed this, and ask wikia to backport.
 * Topic pages appearing in Wantedpages - This is a Mediawiki issue, and probably requires considerable re-architecture
 * Whatlinkshere broken for videos - whatlinkshere is a simple fix. Maybe a VolDev could re-add it.

Features that they could (or should) axe:


 * Welcome message Extension - This should be taken to hades, burnt and outright killed. It wastes server space, does nothing to improve interaction, and simply creates redundant pages that most users ignore. This would be better re-implemented as a notification that would only create a message if someone actually clicks it.
 * "Replace" - Replace was part of an extension which was probably AXED (This??)  or is going to be axed at some point.
 * Most parser functions - Notably https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:StringFunctions.

Reducing the number of extensions or code makes it easier to prioritize and plug holes that they actually caused.