User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/Fandom is upgrading to a modern version of MediaWiki/@comment-30079030-20190621020753/@comment-9605025-20190625003922

That is sort of why so many users are excited. For the past however-many years, Wikia's changes have been to front-end things like appearance. This change is different and, at least in theory, shouldn't change appearances (at least, not too much).