User blog comment:Meighan/New Tools to Start & Grow Your Wiki/@comment-1393830-20110805173000/@comment-3388044-20110806080339

If Wikia had left Special:RecentChanges alone, let admins see it just like non-admins see it, there would not have been such fallout. The Dashboard should be a self-contained unit. If one clicks on it, then one sees the tools under the Dashboard mantle. If instead, an admin types Special:Whatever directly into a search bar, s/he should see that special page as always. For that matter, Special:SpecialPages should appears as always: If the admin goes to the Dashboard, and then to the Advanced tab, then and only then should special pages be presented with the Dashboard overhead.