Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-4522253-20130415032116/@comment-3335785-20130415122243

There are instances of extensions being developed for Wikia, but not by Wikia. However, Wikia has standards that other wiki hosts do not. I don't have the first idea where you'd go to find these standards. Your best bet is asking through Special:Contact/general or on the Wikia skype channel where a lot of the community team can be found along with a few of the engineers. As far as code review goes, there isn't anything publically available. We all criticise Wikia's bugs from time to time, but they fix them largely alone. There may be a few users who have the experience to find a bug, look through Wikia's repository and tell Wikia what to change and where, but as so few of us are even vaguely familiar with Wikia's inner workings I wouldn't be surprised if that was an extremely rare event. Even the users who suggest ideas for developing Wikia further have not a lot of success.

w:c:dev has some documentation on Nirvana iirc, but I haven't come across anyone on dev who has written an extension (or rather not in the active community there).

A discussion about the now unused wkvoteart (an old article voting system, but it is still found in Wikia's API) came up on dev wiki a while back, and exposed a flaw in developing extensions for Wikia: where do you test the extension? You don't have access to the back-end of Wikia so you'd need to set-up a server with all the Wikia specific extensions, their skin, etc. The testing environment is probably the biggest hurdle here.

Oh, and sorry for the text wall ;)