User blog comment:Deadcoder/Petition to Allow Verbatim/@comment--20150918183624

While we are indeed going to retire Verbatim in the future, we are working on several fronts to make this as smooth a change as possible - we're working on integrations of important features (e.g. the recently launched Twitter, SoundCloud and Spotify integrations), the Help:JavaScript review process will be rolled out, *.css MediaWiki pages will be opened up to editing, and more.

There are many moving parts involved, so it will be somewhat more than a few weeks away - I regret using that specific wording, so I apologize - before this change can happen. We should say, while many of the things Verbatim is used for break no rules, security concerns must take priority.

We’ve no desire to unexpectedly launch this change on users, and we'll be providing help and advice for alternative methods of doing things that you currently use Verbatim for. For example, per page CSS can be made via the method shown here.

We are committed to improving security on Wikia, and we recommend keeping an eye on Blog:Wikia Technical Updates for further updates.