User blog comment:Kirkburn/Technical Update: February 17, 2016/@comment-25648422-20160218014534/@comment-1251315-20160218155141

True. One way that could speed up the security check is maybe to get a mixture of wiki's and an outside source to help review the messages, or maybe ask the MediaWiki developers to help out with whitelisting pages. If the rumours are true that Wikia will not upgrade beyond 1.19 (according to a forum post), then it might be a good idea to have MW help out with patching security problems.