User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/Fandom is upgrading to a modern version of MediaWiki/@comment-35422172-20190621011533

This is a smart move. Using open source lets you leverage community effort rather than continually expending resources to replicate their work. In other words, by switching to standard Mediawiki releases, you both save in maintainence costs and provide users with up-to-date features.

In future, I'd hope to see improvement to the wiki theme. I feel the drop-down menus are an archaic hold-over from a pre-mobile era, are difficult for wiki admins to use well, and hold limited value for users. A skin more like Refreshed, which pathfinderwiki.com wears very well, may be an improvement to user experience. I feel the current default choices for wiki color scheme could also be improved.