Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-22224-20180521161500/@comment-1038387-20180522192730

Mystic Monkey wrote: Granted perhaps a quarter or so users prefer MonoBook (I dunno the wiki databases to check) but it still a popular skin for some that Wikia kept since it's roots.

You're overselling it. Last figures (admittedly from 2015) were more like one percent or less. The number of wikis that use Monobook as a standard is about 15 (no percentage), I think mostly Uncyclopedia variants. From a purely business standpoint, they'd lose money if they had to allocate hours to reactivate support and then update the BTS stuff, and then continue support. It would suck away resources for minimal to no gain.

They dropped support ages ago, it was inevitable that they'd drop the whole thing eventually. Could've used an earlier warning, but it's water under the bridge now.