All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXX

[GethN7]

<sigh>  ATT (and the KanriKyara wiki) briefly disappeared about an hour ago, and when it came back, search was (partially) broken.  Progressive search no longer functions, nor do link suggestions while editing.

EDIT:  No sooner do I post that than progressive search suddenly reappears.  I am torn between gratitude and annoyance.

One of the problems we have when it comes to MediaWiki, and indeed all wiki software, so another would not necessarily be an improvement, is that we are at the whims of not our hosting, but the updates they pull from extension developers. Many of our most crucial extensions are also used by the Wikimedia Foundation, and they are set to the continuous update model, as they are constantly being refined and improved on because they keep discovering all sorts of edge case bugs due to their high usage and thus constantly getting updated nigh daily. The knock-on effect of these always being bleeding edge is we are also at the mercy of any issues. Ergo, if Wikipedia has a cold, ATT will start to sneeze until they pass out the sinus medicine, which we will get secondhand since our updates descend from their testing.

That said, MediaWiki is always going to be the most reliable wiki engine out there if only because the WMF is bent on ensuring the least downtime possible and have the staff and scale to push out fixes the fastest. I've used others like DokuWiki and *shudder* PmWiki, and they are far worse.