Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-13301-20170502181922/@comment-310-20170508214507

Ciencia Al Poder wrote: This has nothing about old ways of doing things or not wanting to evolve. Remember also that you are editing on Wikia, that uses MediaWiki 1.19 as its base software, released on 2012-05-02 and becoming obsolete in May 2015, stuck with old api modules and without many improvements for admins and users introduced in later releases.

That is not how software development works at Fandom. You will find that many downstream security patches are, and continue to be integrated. Don't let the version number fool you, a lot of the base MediaWiki install used by Fandom bears little resemblance to even the last 1.19 security update released to the public. It's effectively MediaWiki 1.19+, and despite the version showing, a lot of later MediaWiki code has been incorporated. This is what it means to "fork" a project like MediaWiki.