Board Thread:New Features/@comment-26522807-20160208225359/@comment-24473195-20160227121336

"So our approach since the 1.19 upgrade has been to backport as needed. The PAGESINCAT request has some weight to it and may well be the next thing we choose to invest in backporting. As always, you are free to contact us and let us know if there is anything you see being developed on the MediaWiki horizon that you think would be helpful at Wikia. We genuinely consider this stuff, just like we consider requests for extension installations."

I think part of the problem is that there isn't any documentation ( Help:Extensions doesn't suffice) about stuff and extensions that Wikia will NEVER install. I've personally requested a few, and have heard from other users requesting them.

"We have a good relationship with the Wikimedia Foundation - we developed the VisualEditor with them and still love going to the annual Conference." There seems to be mixed messages regarding the VisualEditor, currently it seems that Wikia is not developing it further, aside from few tweaks to add stuff like "the portable infobox".

So a pertinent question is, who do we report VisualEditor bugs to, and in case of new features (e.g. Graphs Plugin, Math plugin, new table features) created by WMF, should we even bother requesting backports?

Sometimes a BLUNT "NO" (as answered in the quoted post) with a reason pointing to documentation, is better than saying please contact C. I can think of dozens of extensions that should never be installed in Wikia, and in my opinion of quite a few installed currently that should be burnt with fire.