User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/Fandom is upgrading to a modern version of MediaWiki/@comment-31220728-20190620153221/@comment-1824272-20190622063742

Source editing is here to stay.

As Tupka said, re-enabling Forums for new wikis would grow the monolith because we're talking about adding a feature to new communities despite that feature being migrated eventually to Discussions/Community Feeds. Forum is part of the monolith because it's not core MediaWiki. If you go to Special:Forum right now, that's not a core MediaWiki feature.


 * Selecting the source code of an entire portable infobox template and trying to paste it into a program like Notepad results in an empty line.

...what??? I have no idea what you mean by this. Copying source code and pasting it into any program, including Notepad, still works as it should for me.