Board Thread:Lua Help/@comment-24473195-20150504194158/@comment-11733175-20150531072346

I don't believe the policy changed, we've added a fair few features now including the thread moderator rights for Special:Forum. We can't merge anything ourselves, so it's still ultimately reviewed and checked by devs hence the distinction between bug and feature doesn't really make a difference.

The main issue with scribunto and wikia is the lack of support for ContentHandler, a 1.21 (or 1.22) feature. You can't do a straight upgrade until core is upgraded which is getting harder and harder with each week/month/year due to wikia's customisations. It's also hampered by lack of support in core for extending much of the existing code (or it's not considered worthwhile for wikia if they do so). Yes, we can add hooks, but there's still a hellish amount of changes just to make wikia's extensions work. Not to mention all the changes to make things work smoother on wikia's setup.