Thread:Fandyllic/@comment-27075564-20170724155029/@comment-1077307-20170804215529

Fandyllic wrote: It would be nice to do something in Lua that would make Fandom have to keep it around, though. ;-)

Well make sure its turned on for WoW Wiki, and Witcher, ... and WildStar while I'm thinking about it.

They need to arrive at a server-side runtime of some kind, Lua or otherwise, rather than only the reprocessed through php wiki code. If MediaWiki was half its penetration in number if sites running maybe not bother, but they need better server side facilities exposed to the users. This convoluted map business is a good case in point. There's a reason Raylan didn't already have another Map from some somewhere and I'm redoing this one which was made to solve a 10 year old problem 10 years ago or so.

There are a good number of things that need to be done to hit the next level. And I'd argue that refocusing all of the burden on the Wikia staff and Wikia and MediaWiki devs has a natural saturation point and point at which its impractical to grow past for the number of supported sites, either from a management impracticality or lack of willing/qualified people available. The demand for neat things isn't going away and specialized neat things curators are an evolving commodity in short supply.