User blog comment:Meighan/New Tools to Start & Grow Your Wiki/@comment-168424-20110805014806/@comment-4713673-20110805173731

Special:AdminDashboard can't be added to My Tools because it's permalinked in the toolbar, that's correct.

The Admin Dashboard is not an optional feature, so there is no preference to turn it off and will likely not be. With that said, this feature is meant to help, not hinder, and there have been some very good points brought up so far about the Admin Dashboard not meeting that goal. For starters we'll be adding the search box back in to Special Pages very soon and working on making the option to minimize the sidebar more prominent. Those are just two examples, we're reading through everything and thinking about all the comments to see what else might be helpful to implement. Also, we're not only looking at negatives, if you have a request for a tool that needs to be cleaned up, or a request for a new tool you would find useful please let us know in the |F/A Forum.

Also, this really is just the first version of this tool. There were a lot of things (like better advanced tab, more advanced admin tools, much needed revamps of some pages like wikistats) that we weren't able to get in this time, but we plan to keep working on the Admin Dashboard to make it even more useful for everyone as time goes on.