Board Thread:General Coding Help/@comment-32218589-20170607160518/@comment-27345308-20170608093744

Wikia's codebase has a real lot of dependencies. I think asking through Special:Contact would save you a lot of time, because they would either explain you how to properly set it up or convince you it's impossible.
 * You won't be able to use chat if you don't set up their chat server.
 * There's a lot of services Wikia is using whose repositories aren't public, so you won't be able to set them up, and therefore would have to write a replacement for them in the codebase.
 * Wikia is also using Vigenette as a thumbnail generating service which you'd have to set up.
 * Wikia's configuration isn't in the codebase, but in Wikia/config repository which is private.