User blog comment:Kirkburn/Technical Update: September 2, 2015/@comment-452-20150902220644/@comment-126761-20150903170240

In case this is misinterpreted: we can't give a final decision on the future of Verbatim at the moment - our primary plan right now is to create replacements for the important functions it was used for. A bunch are already coming down the pipeline, like the above mentioned Twitter and SoundCloud implementations. Once those are ready and live, we'll decide where to go from there.

Regarding the MediaWiki namespace: we're going to continue expanding the whitelist to cover important messages, including getting *.css pages editable. JS pages will also become editable in a future update.

As frustrating as the current limitations understandably are, we want to come out the other side of this work better than before.

Finally, if you've noticed the site being wonky more often than usual, apologies about that - we're making some background transitions that will enable some pretty nice updates coming down the line. We'll have more news on those soon.