User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The first migrations to the Unified Community Platform/@comment-28211329-20200526184551/@comment-24006128-20200526191219

We're continuing to track the feedback regarding WikiActivity. Simply put, it was purpose-driven to engage new users into editing and we never saw evidence of that panning out, so we opted for the more advanced, moderation-focused tool that comes default with MediaWiki. The moderation usecase for WikiActivity was revealed after the fact because, to my knowledge, nobody had mentioned it to us and you can't find what you're not looking for unless you're very lucky.

We're not blind to the fact that many admins prefer WikiActivity now. It's not as simple as reintroducing a highly custom tool onto a new codebase though, so we have to approach finding the right solution carefully.