Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-38517772-20201013160631/@comment-9605025-20201016191128

The root of the issue is that Fandom's interests and the Wikimedia Foundation's are still very different. It is just that Fandom has waved the white flag of surrender because they can't handle the costs of developing their own parallel platform. Although, I don't understand the foundations decision to focus on Wikipedia's needs over everyone else's.

Example, Special:PermanentLink and Special:Diff still don't work on UCP. Why? Because the default configuration assumes all pages are part of the root like "/Pagename" instead of "/wiki/Pagename". This is how Wikipedia and Gamepedia do it but it isn't how Fandom, Miraheze, ShoutWiki, or even the Mediawiki Foundation's own documentation wikis do it. All of these other hosts (and other smaller ones) all use "/wiki/Pagename". So why does the Mediawiki Foundation insist on not changing the defaults to match what most hosts use instead of what a large but singular host uses? It just doesn't make sense to me.