Board Thread:New Features/@comment-24739709-20150518230347/@comment-24473195-20150910152326

FishTank wrote: @Dessamator: The Wikia Staff is developing in-house tools in parallel to the WMF tools, as the Wikia platform presents certain limitations that are not well addressed by MediaWiki, even in the newer versions. With a hat tip to the WMF, there are significant logistical reasons for Wikia not going with the Wikimedia VisualEditor, or indeed many of the innovations (like TemplateData) that you are expecting to come from WMF to Wikia eventually. The scope of that statement goes well beyond this topic thread, but read it carefully. That said, there are in-house tools coming that will either meet or exceed WMF development in most cases.

That's great news.
 * Regarding Lua in PIBs and the missing parts of Scribunto: soon. Well before the end of the year soon.
 * Data typing (num, string, enums) in Infoboxes: VERY soon. Tabber, too.

Thanks for the headsup!!