Board Thread:New Features/@comment-26522807-20160208225359/@comment-24473195-20160226181324

TheV1ct0ri0u5 wrote:

Cqm wrote: There's dozens of extensions that could help us. What extensions are there which could advance Wikia–which Wikia doesn't already have a version of? Many other extensions available for MediaWiki could easily destroy the openness of Wikia if used. It seems as though Wikia has been pretty on-top-of getting new tools. MW is superior to most charting solutions, Wikibase, the software / plugin / tool behind Wikidata also requires a newer version of MediaWiki. So there are plenty of examples of tools that are not easy to install on wikias because of the MW version.

Interestingly, in some cases there are extensions that Wikia added but that the WMF has outright refused to install. Whereas most extensions can possibly be installed with little effort or cost, others may have an actual cost ($$$), e.g. mw:Extension:Kartographer.